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Dubai submerged in floods as UAE gets over a year’s worth of rain in hours (www.aljazeera.com)
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Heavy thunderstorms have lashed the United Arab Emirates (UAE), dumping more than a year and a half’s rain on the desert city-state of Dubai in just a few hours and flooding major highways and its international airport.

The rains began late on Monday, soaking the sands and roads of Dubai with some 20mm (0.79 inches) of rain, according to meteorological data collected at Dubai International Airport. The storms intensified at about 9am (05:00 GMT) on Tuesday and continued throughout the day, dumping more rain and hail onto the overwhelmed city.

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[-] 0x815@feddit.de 45 points 5 months ago

World not ready to ‘switch off’ fossil fuels, UAE says - (May 2023)

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago

Mother nature is planning to switch off Dubai it seems.

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Funny thing about that, wider variability is what we can expect in the weather. So watch now as they don't get any rain at all for the next two years. I keep a garden, and have a Stratus rain gauge. Last year we were darned close to the historic average, of 12 inches precip. The year before it was 15, well above. The two years prior it was 6 inches each, half the historic average. smh. There's only so much adaptation we can manage.

And, I wonder if this will convince petrostates that maybe they should do something about this.

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