{"id":33216,"date":"2024-04-17T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=33216"},"modified":"2024-04-17T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T05:23:08","slug":"uae-experiences-heaviest-rainfall-in-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/uae-experiences-heaviest-rainfall-in-75-years\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE experiences heaviest rainfall in 75 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Arab Emirates (UAE) encountered a remarkable downpour on Tuesday, April 16, with the heaviest rainfall in the past 24 hours ever recorded since data collection began in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>The location in Al Ain known as &#8220;Khatm Al Shakla&#8221; had the most precipitation, measuring an incredible 254 mm in less than a day, according to the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM).<\/p>\n<p>On March 9, 2016, the Shuwaib station of the NCM recorded 287.6 mm.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read More:<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/uae-weather-update-heavy-rain-lashes-out-emirates-strict-advisory-issued\/\">UAE weather update: Heavy rain lashes out emirates, strict advisory issued<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The UAE had a difficult time controlling the unfavorable weather. But locals and officials worked together skillfully to make sure that everyone was safe.<\/p>\n<p>The nation experienced unprecedented levels of rainfall over the last 24 hours, ending at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16. The NCM confirmed that this is an unprecedented event in the UAE&#8217;s climatic history since the beginning of climate data recording. Furthermore, it is anticipated that larger amounts of rainfall will be recorded in the hours to come.<\/p>\n<p>This prolonged period of intense rain is unprecedented in the United Arab Emirates, strengthening the country&#8217;s overall groundwater supplies and raising the average yearly rainfall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story__content  overflow-hidden      text-4 leading-tight text-black  \" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The unstable weather conditions, attributed to an extension of a \u201clow surface pressure,\u201d affected the country from Monday onwards. On Tuesday, two waves of unsettled weather swept across the UAE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Arab Emirates (UAE) encountered a remarkable downpour on Tuesday, April 16, with the heaviest rainfall in the past 24 hours ever recorded since data collection began in 1949. The location in Al Ain known as &#8220;Khatm Al Shakla&#8221; had the most precipitation, measuring an incredible 254 mm in less than a day, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":33217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,43,3],"tags":[15186,15187,11860,11859,15140],"class_list":["post-33216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-weather","category-world","tag-uae-experiences-heaviest-rainfall","tag-uae-experiences-heaviest-rainfall-in-75-years","tag-uae-weather","tag-uae-weather-forecast","tag-uae-weather-update-rains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}