{"id":599129,"date":"2021-07-21T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=599129"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:22:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T18:22:42","slug":"drones-used-to-bring-rain-into-blazing-heat-of-middle-east-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drones-used-to-bring-rain-into-blazing-heat-of-middle-east-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones Used To Bring Rain Into Blazing Heat Of Middle East Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdrones-used-to-bring-rain-into-blazing-heat-of-middle-east-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=599129&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-915510436.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In an area that has one of the most arid climates in the world, one country created heavy rain by using drones that cause clouds to trigger electrical charges.<\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates, where the temperature can reach a blistering 122&nbsp;degrees Fahrenheit and the average rainfall is a minuscule three inches, released a video from its National Center of Meteorology showing the rain pouring on highways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country paid $15 million (\u00a310.8 million) towards nine different rain-enhancement projects, part of which was given to the University of Reading, who are behind the creation of the weather-controlling drones,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.co.uk\/technology\/dubai-is-creating-fake-rain-to-battle-50c-heat\/\">Unilad<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>Alya Al-Mazroui, director of the UAE\u2019s rain-enhancement science-research program, stated, \u201cEquipped with a payload of electric-charge emission instruments and customized sensors, these drones will fly at low altitudes and deliver an electric charge to air molecules, which should encourage precipitation,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1826651\/middle-east\">Arab News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Keri Nicoll, one of the core investigators on the project, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/27\/middleeast\/clouds-electricity-rain-spc-intl\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> that the size of the raindrops was vital because droplets could evaporate as they fall. She stated, \u201cWhat we are trying to do is to make the droplets inside the clouds big enough so that when they fall out of the cloud, they survive down to the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo test out the model, Nicoll and her team built four aircraft with a wingspan of two meters. These are launched from a catapult, have a full autopilot system, and can fly for around 40 minutes. Each aircraft has sensors for measuring temperature, charge, and humidity, as well as charge emitters \u2014 the part that does the zapping \u2014 that were developed with the University of Bath in the UK,\u201d CNN explained.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Maarten Ambaum, who worked on the project, told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-56428984\">BBC<\/a>, \u201cThe water table is sinking drastically in [the] UAE and the purpose of this is to try to help with rainfall.\u201d \u2026 (There are) \u2018plenty of clouds,\u2019 so the hope was to make water droplets merge and stick together \u2018like dry hair to a comb\u2019 when they meet static electricity.\u201d He added, \u201cWhen the drops merge and are big enough, they will fall as rain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country\u2019s&nbsp;Abu Dhabi-based forecasters monitor weather radars to tell pilots flying official government aircraft when to take off on rain-inducing missions,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9809529\/Dubai-creates-RAIN-tackle-122F-heat-Drones-blast-clouds-electrical-charge.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> reported, adding that in the summer \u201cclouds form over the eastern Al-Hajar mountains which deflect the warm wind blowing from the Gulf of Oman. The strength of the updraft determines the number of \u2018salt flares\u2019 fired as the plane explores the base of the forming cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark Newman, the deputy chief pilot at NCMS, said, \u201cAs soon as they see some convective cloud formations, they launch us on a flight to investigate. \u2026 If we\u2019ve got a mild updraft, we usually burn one or two flares. If we\u2019ve got a good updraft, we burn four, sometimes six flares into the cloud. \u2026 It is fantastic\u2026 As soon as there is rain, there is a lot of excitement. We can hear the guys in the office are happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an area that has one of the most arid climates in the world, one country created heavy rain by using drones that cause clouds to trigger electrical charges.The United &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}