{"id":17027,"date":"2022-07-06T09:28:18","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T09:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave"},"modified":"2022-07-06T10:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T10:38:49","slug":"dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave","title":{"rendered":"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>In one of the most fascinating technologies in history, the famous city of Dubai is continuing its creation of fake rain to tackle heatwave. Drones are used for heavy downpours, partly caused by cloud-seeding projects.
\nDubai deals with extremely hot summers with temperatures over 50\u00b0C. The United Arab Emirates\u2019 National Center of Meteorology (NCM) uses drone technology for electrical charges into clouds.
\nThe science cause the clouds to cluster and form precipitation. For this year, the NCM released a video of monsoon-like showers and sparking flashes of lightning.
\nThe rain and strong winds cut visibility on roads and created difficult driving conditions, The National reported. Cloud seeding, one of nine different rain-making projects, in used in the UAE.
\nOthers include dropping salt or other chemicals into clouds for condensation. Drought-prone countries such as China and India use cloud seeding which is also effective for preventing rainfall and controlling flooding.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Lesotho<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. In one of the most fascinating technologies in history, the famous city of Dubai is continuing its creation of fake rain to tackle heatwave. Drones are used for heavy downpours, partly caused by cloud-seeding projects. Dubai deals with extremely hot summers with temperatures over 50\u00b0C. The United Arab Emirates\u2019 National Center of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":17026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,9,16],"tags":[233,246,1058,245,1961],"class_list":["post-17027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-dubai","tag-lesotho","tag-uae"],"yoast_head":"\nDubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In one of the most fascinating technologies in history, the famous city of Dubai is continuing its creation of fake rain ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In one of the most fascinating technologies in history, the famous city of Dubai is continuing its creation of fake rain ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-06T09:28:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-06T10:38:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c5661d6718e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"738\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"415\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-06T09:28:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-06T10:38:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c5661d6718e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"DUBAI\",\"Lesotho\",\"UAE\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"miscellaneous\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave\",\"name\":\"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave - Lesotho\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c5661d6718e.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-06T09:28:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-06T10:38:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"In one of the most fascinating technologies in history, the famous city of Dubai is continuing its creation of fake rain ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c5661d6718e.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c5661d6718e.jpg\",\"width\":738,\"height\":415,\"caption\":\"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\",\"name\":\"Lesotho\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave - Lesotho","description":"In one of the most fascinating technologies in history, the famous city of Dubai is continuing its creation of fake rain ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave","og_description":"In one of the most fascinating technologies in history, the famous city of Dubai is continuing its creation of fake rain ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave","og_site_name":"Lesotho","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2022-07-06T09:28:18+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-07-06T10:38:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":738,"height":415,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c5661d6718e.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave","datePublished":"2022-07-06T09:28:18+00:00","dateModified":"2022-07-06T10:38:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave"},"wordCount":168,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c5661d6718e.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Lesotho","DUBAI","Lesotho","UAE"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","miscellaneous","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave","name":"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave - Lesotho","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c5661d6718e.jpg","datePublished":"2022-07-06T09:28:18+00:00","dateModified":"2022-07-06T10:38:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"In one of the most fascinating technologies in history, the famous city of Dubai is continuing its creation of fake rain ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c5661d6718e.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_15-62c5661d6718e.jpg","width":738,"height":415,"caption":"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/dubai-creates-artificial-rain-to-combat-heatwave#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dubai creates artificial rain to combat heatwave"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/","name":"Lesotho","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}