Dubai, United Arab Emirates - April, 17.

The worst rainfall since the country began keeping records in 1949.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) experienced the heaviest rainfall in its history on Tuesday and the images speak for themselves: cars floating in lakes that were once streets and planes surrounded by a temporary sea that used to be called Dubai-Al Maktoum International Airport.
It took less than 24 hours for the skies to confirm "an exceptional event in the UAE's weather history", said the country's National Meteorological Centre (NMC), with the peak recorded in the emirate of Al Ain, with 254 mm of rain.

In another emirate, Ras al-Khaimah, police reported the death of a septuagenarian whose vehicle was swept away by heavy rains while driving through a valley in this desert region of the country.
Images of Dubai's flooded roads were seen around the world. Still, despite the damage, the CNM said the heavy rains "contribute to increasing the average annual rainfall in the UAE, as well as strengthening the country's groundwater reserves".
Images in association with Irene Mutwiri, Msm Gallery, Dxb &pak, Life with waqsha, Caloy's YT, Global Aman.

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1. various of flooded highway in Dubai
2. various of heavy storm in Dubai
3. various of an ambulance in a street flooded by the rains
4. various of flooded streets