The nonstop rain in Dubai has locals fearing for the future of their beloved home. Dry seasons have been a common thing for Dubai, and not getting any rainfall at all leads to heavily dry environments. This problem led to a solution that people believed to be a promising idea, which was to plant clouds in the air, also known as cloud seedling.

Cloud seeding is a weather modification technique that improves a cloud’s ability to produce rain for dry places like Dubai. The national center of meteorology in Dubai, a government task force, uses this technique of cloud seeding in the United Arab Emirates.

Unfortunately, now flooding has become a nightmare for the residents living in Dubai. The amount of rain has been heavy with storms after storms and floods after floods. The overwhelming rain is coming in excessive downpours that have people living in constant fear. The weather has been so bad that roads have become impassable, homes are being destroyed, businesses suffer a lot of damage, and vehicles have been completely submerged in water, causing a disturbance to the way people live in those places. Residents are unable to reclaim their belongings that were swept by the waters, and business owners’ sales are being affected because of the lack of people who are going in to shop for the latest items due to the bad timing of the storm. People are unable to drive their vehicles to work due to the flooding of the highways and roads people once used.

In the aftermath of Dubai’s cloud seeding idea, the city experienced a notable shift in its weather patterns. What was once a shower of water washing the city is now an intense wave of storms with heavy rainfall and violent winds. The skies were once clear, but now people cannot see the blue in the sky because it was covered by dark grey clouds that continue to grow as the days go on.

While people are debating the cause of the rain, Dubai’s cloud seeding experiment has shown people not to mess with nature. This experience serves as an example not only to the community of Dubai,

but to the rest of the world not to make subtle changes to the weather because those changes can cause a whole different ending.