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Dubai’s government is refuting claims that its technology to create artificial rain caused the unprecedented flooding in the UAE yesterday. The tech, known as cloud seeding, has been the subject of many popular theories.

According to a representative, seeding was not conducted during the intense thunderstorm, as it was too late to influence the weather.

The government has used the technology for decades due to Dubai’s extremely dry conditions. Aircraft fly through clouds and inject small particles, or seeds, that improve a cloud’s ability to produce rain.

Dubai official: “One of the basic principles of cloud seeding is that you have to target clouds in its early stage before it rains. If you have a severe thunderstorm situation then it is too late to conduct any seeding operation.”