Dubai, United Arab Emirates - April, 18.

Episodes of torrential rain in desert areas, such as the one just experienced by the Arabian Peninsula in the Persian Gulf, will no longer be exceptional and will tend to become more common due to the warming of ocean water and its impact on the effect of large storm systems.
"In recent times, due to global warming, we are seeing that even in countries with extreme dryness there are also episodes in which in a single day it rains more than the annual average," meteorologist Jose Miguel Vinas, from Meteored, explained to Efe.
With an overheated sea surface, as is happening, "conditions are increasingly favourable" so that, in situations with large storm structures - such as the one that, specifically, moved across the Arabian Peninsula - the result is "rainfall of extraordinary intensity", adds the expert.
He warns that there has been speculation as to whether cloud seeding programmes are being carried out in these countries; such talk is "unfounded", the meteorologist says.
The heavy rains in the Arabian Peninsula are "further evidence of how rainfall behaviour is beginning to change," he adds.
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