In June 2021, Dubai reached a new temperature record with 51.8 ° C, which is not going to improve with global warming. The United Arab Emirates looked for a solution to increase the rainfall rate and the solution was quickly found.
The Dubai Meteorological Center informed us that it was using drones to make the rain finally fall . In collaboration with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates have manufactured drones capable of shooting clouds of laser beams . More concretely, drones target specific clouds with concentrated lasers in order to force the gathering of water droplets in the air, which then triggers precipitation. Roughly speaking, it amounts to electrifying the clouds.
In July 2021, they tested these drones and the first tests are very conclusive.