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Dubai floods seen from space - 17 April 2024. Dubai Metro services were severely impacted, leaving around 200 commuters stranded at several stations. MA highway through Dubai was reduced to a single lane in one direction, while the E11 Road that connects Dubai with the capital Abu Dhabi was closed in the Abu Dhabi direction. [13]
Like the rest of the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has a hot and dry climate. As such, rainfall is infrequent and in many areas there is limited infrastructure such as drainage to handle extreme events.
Dubai flooding: Dramatic photos after UAE sees heaviest rainfall in 75 years. Yahoo News Photo Staff. April 18, 2024 at 6:40 AM.
By midnight Tuesday, 5.59 inches of rain had fallen on Dubai over 24 hours — on average, 3.73 inches falls every year on Dubai Airport, a major hub for travel in the Middle East and beyond.
DUBAI (Reuters) -Dubai, a city in the desert proud of its futuristic gloss, was on Thursday busy clearing its waterclogged roads and drying out flooded homes two days after a record storm saw a ...
Ahead of the flooding, a rainfall more than 100mm was estimated and anticipated in most parts of the UAE, including Dubai, Sharjah, Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, Ajman and Ras-al-Khaimah. [ 22 ] One Emirati citizen, a 70-year-old man, died after his car was swept away by floods in a wadi in Ras Al Khaimah . [ 23 ]
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The storm's total rainfall in Dubai added up to 6.45 inches (164 mm) by Wednesday morning, an event the state-run WAM news agency said was worse than "anything documented since the start of data ...