Here’s why experts don’t think cloud seeding played a role in Dubai’s downpour [Video]

• Flooding drenched the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, in a country that usually only has 4 or 5 inches of rain each year.
• Experts have said the cause of the rainfall was likely not cloud seeding, as the method may cause rain but not the amount seen recently in the UAE.
• Scientists say the rainfall is ‘akin to what the world expects with human-caused climate change.’

With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai, meteorologists said.

Cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard to prove that it does very much. No one reports the type of flooding that on Tuesday doused the UAE, which often deploys the technology in an attempt to squeeze every drop of moisture from a sky that usually gives less …