It is trying to squeeze every drop of rain from its clouds
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Riyadh: The United Arab Emirates, a region that desperately needs plenty of water supply, is trying to squeeze every drop of rain from its clouds by launching salt missiles into them from planes.
The technique used by the nation, known as cloud seeding, is to increase condensation in the hope that it might trigger a downpour, DailyMail said. The oil-rich desert nation ranks among the world’s top 10 driest countries with an annual rainfall of just 78 millimetres, 15 times less than what falls in an average year in the UK.
The country’s National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) is now attempting to tackl the problem by running a cloud seeding programme. Its Abu Dhabi-based forecasters monitor weather radars to tell pilots flying official government aircraft when to take off on rain-inducing missions.
“As soon as they see some convective cloud formations, they launch us on a flight to investigate,' said Mark Newman, deputy chief pilot at NCMS. He added the team would then attempt '’to seed the cloud’ if the conditions were right.
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