Don’t blame Dubai’s freak rain on cloud seeding – the storm was far too big to be human-made

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Don’t blame Dubai’s freak rain on cloud seeding – the storm was far too big to be human-made

Some years ago, I found myself making my way up the narrow stairs of a Learjet on a sultry runway in a deserted airport near the South Africa-Mozambique border. The humidity was there to taste – the air thick with it. The weather radar was showing a fast-developing thundercloud. Our mission was to fly through the most active part of the storm, measure it, fly through again while dumping a bin load of dry ice, turn hard and fly through for a fin…