{"id":28655,"date":"2024-04-17T11:50:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/heavy-rain-and-floods-kill-19-in-oman-and-disrupt-dubai-airport\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:50:31","slug":"heavy-rain-and-floods-kill-19-in-oman-and-disrupt-dubai-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/17\/heavy-rain-and-floods-kill-19-in-oman-and-disrupt-dubai-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain and Floods Kill 19 in Oman and Disrupt Dubai Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/04\/17\/multimedia\/17xp-oman-gvlc\/17xp-oman-gvlc-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Heavy Rain and Floods Kill 19 in Oman and Disrupt Dubai Airport\" title=\"Heavy Rain and Floods Kill 19 in Oman and Disrupt Dubai Airport\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Record levels of rainfall have brought cities in the United Arab Emirates and Oman to a standstill, with at least 19 people killed in Oman and flights being diverted from Dubai\u2019s airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the U.A.E., authorities urged all residents to stay at home, as videos showed cars submerged on gridlocked highways and planes leaving waves in their wake as they taxied down flooded runways in Dubai. In Muscat, Oman\u2019s capital, flash flooding turned streets into raging rivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Experts said the extreme deluge was likely the result of a regular, rainy weather system being supercharged by climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The storm first hit Oman on Sunday, causing widespread flash flooding and leading officials to close schools and government offices. On Wednesday, the heavy rain appeared to be easing, although the authorities <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCEM_OM\/status\/1780508950489698566\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> residents to remain cautious.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Several areas of Oman received over 230 millimeters, or about 9 inches, of rain between Sunday and Wednesday, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NCEM_OM\/status\/1780267137816224116\/photo\/1\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to<\/a> the country\u2019s National Committee for Emergency Management. The average annual rainfall in Muscat, the nation\u2019s capital, is about 100 millimeters, although other parts of the country can receive more rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By Wednesday morning, 19 deaths had been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NCEM_OM\/status\/1780500493946483160\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> by the emergency management committee, including an infant, and others had been reported missing. Ten of the dead were schoolchildren who were swept away in a vehicle with an adult, according to The Associated Press. Some schools remained closed in Oman on Wednesday, and some government employees were told to work from home. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The U.A.E. had its largest rainfall event in 75 years on Tuesday, the government <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UAEmediaoffice\/status\/1780326720588906951\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> on social media. One area received 254.8 millimeters, about 10 inches, of rain in less than a day, the country\u2019s National Center of Meteorology said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Flights heading to Dubai International Airport have been diverted, and operations were briefly suspended because of the storm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Wednesday, officials <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DXB\/status\/1780461316605456559\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">urged travelers<\/a> not to go to the airport, with flights continuing to be delayed and diverted. Emirates, the national airline, said it was suspending check-in for passengers departing from the airport until midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Although some have speculated that recent cloud seeding efforts by the U.A.E. \u2014 using chemicals to increase the chances of clouds producing rain \u2014 could have been responsible for the extreme weather, scientists said this was very unlikely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cRainfall enhancement could not cause that kind of increase in rainfall,\u201d said Steven Siems, an expert in cloud seeding at Monash University in Australia, adding that any effects from cloud seeding would have been \u201cmarginal\u201d at most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The extreme weather appeared to be the result of a relatively normal weather system bringing rain that had been turbocharged by ocean and atmospheric warming, said Janette Lindesay, a climate scientist at the Australian National University. \u201cIt\u2019s highly likely that global heating has played a role in the intensity of the event,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A low pressure system moving over the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf of Oman had interacted with parts of the jet stream, a river of wind that moves from west to east over temperate latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere, producing rainfall, Professor Lindesay said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That in itself was not unusual. But with rising air and sea temperatures escalating ocean evaporation, there was more moisture in the atmosphere, she said, which had likely contributed to a bigger and more intense deluge of rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn many parts of the world we\u2019re seeing fewer rainfall events that produce moderate to light rainfall,\u201d she said. \u201cMore dry days, but on the days with higher rainfall, it rains more heavily.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/17\/us\/dubai-flood-rain-oman-deaths.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record levels of rainfall have brought cities in the United Arab Emirates and Oman to a standstill, with at least 19 people killed in Oman and flights being diverted from Dubai\u2019s airport. 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