Climate change is making stormy days in the UAE more common and more intense, according to a new study.
The research, from scientists at Khalifa University and the National Centre of Meteorology, found that there are up to two more stormy days per year now compared to 2000.
This increase is set to continue, the scientists behind the study found by using a combination of satellite data and computer modelling.
In April last year the UAE experienced its most severe rainfall in a single day for 75 years in an event that researchers later said had been made more intense by climate change.
“With global warming, we know that the air is capable of holding more moisture and [this is] therefore fuelling severe convection and extreme rainfall,” said Dr Diana Francis, head of Khalifa University’s Environmental and Geophysical Sciences (Engeos) Laboratory,
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