WWA Study Points to Role of Hot Oceans in Recent Dubai Floods

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Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT HOT OCEANS WORSENED DUBAI’S DRAMATIC FLOODING, SCIENTISTS SAY An international team of researchers found that heavy rains had intensified in the region, though they couldn’t say for sure how much climate change was responsible.
On average, the Arabian Peninsula receives a scant few inches of rain a year, although scientists have found that a sizable chunk of that precipitation falls in infrequent but severe bursts, not as periodic showers.
U.A.E. officials said the 24-hour rain total on April 16 was the country’s largest since records there began in 1949.
A version of this article appears in print on April 19, 2024, Section A, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Extraordinary Flooding In Dubai: What to Know.