A meteorologist has warned of potential “weather wars” between countries if cloud seeding gets out of hand.

The comments follow torrential rain in Dubai, the UAE, which caused extreme flooding. The downpour, which began on Monday, brought widespread disruption, closing schools, flooding homes and delaying travel.

More than 142 millimeters of rain fell on the city in just 24 hours, equivalent to at least a year’s worth of rain for the region.

In recent days, there have been theories that the torrential rain was caused by cloud seeding, when planes inject clouds with chemicals, sparking precipitation. The practice was introduced in the 1940s and is now only used in areas with little rainfall, such as the UAE.

But the experts can’t agree whether cloud seeding was responsible in this case, and it has caused some debate in the weather community.

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