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Storm dumps record rain across UAE, flooding Dubai airport
The Morning Standard
|April 18, 2024
Schools across the federation of sheikhdoms were largely shut ahead of the storm; 142 mm rainfall recorded in 24 hours; average annual precipitation is 94.7 mm
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THE desert nation of the United Arab Emirates attempted to dry out Wednesday from the heaviest rain ever recorded there after a deluge flooded out Dubai International Airport, disrupting flights through the world's busiest airfield for international travel.
The state-run WAM news agency called the rain Tuesday "a historic weather event" that surpassed "anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949." That's before the discovery of crude oil in this energy-rich nation then part of a British protectorate known as the Trucial States.
Rain also fell in Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
However, the rains were acute across the UAE.
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