Reuters
Autos drive throughout a flooded street in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 16.
The United Arab Emirates noticed unprecedented rainfall on Tuesday, marking the best recorded rainfall within the final 75 years since local weather data began in 1949.
The nation’s Nationwide Heart of Meteorology confirmed this extraordinary rainfall over the previous 24 hours as probably the most vital within the UAE’s climatic historical past.
In response to the meteorology middle, essentially the most substantial rainfall recorded was within the Khatm Al Shiklah space in Al Ain, which acquired as much as 254.8 mm in lower than 24 hours.
This vital climate occasion, it says, has contributed to a rise within the UAE’s annual common rainfall and helped bolster the nation’s groundwater reserves.
Dubai Worldwide Airport, one of many busiest airports on the planet, introduced that it might divert arriving flights on Tuesday night till the climate situations enhance, although departures stay operational.
In response to information from Flightradar24, arrivals on the airport have skilled a mean delay of 80 minutes just lately, whereas departures have confronted a delay of 106 minutes.
Faculties throughout the UAE have been closed and are anticipated to stay shut on Wednesday. The Dubai authorities additionally prolonged the distant working time for its workers by Wednesday.
The Asian Champions League soccer semi-final match between Al Ain of the UAE and Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal, set to be performed in Al Ain, was postponed resulting from unfavorable climate situations.
The storm hit the UAE, Bahrain and components of Qatar after affecting Oman, the place it induced deadly floods and left dozens stranded.
