A view of the street after heavy rainfall as adverse weather conditions affect daily life in Dubai.
Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The National Center of Meteorology, a government taskforce responsible for cloud seeding missions in the United Arab Emirates, denied reports that it carried out the weather modification technique in the run-up to heavy storms across the country, therefore exacerbating flooding in places like Dubai.
The organization told CNBC that it did not dispatch pilots for seeding operations before or during the storm that struck the UAE on Tuesday.
Omar AlYazeedi, deputy director general of the NCM, said the agency “did not conduct any seeding operations during this event.”
He added, “One…
