Traffic gradually resumed at Dubai airport this Thursday while the Gulf’s most tourist city continued to operate at a slower pace, two days after heavy rains hit the United Arab Emirates.
The airport, one of the world’s busiest, should return to “full capacity within 24 hours”, its director of operations Majed Al Joker assured the official WAM news agency, while many air operations continued to be delayed this Thursday.
Since Tuesday, 1,244 flights have been canceled and 41 flights have been diverted, an airport spokesman said.
That day, record rains hit the Emirates, the likes of which had not been seen in 75 years, causing unprecedented flooding in the desert country and resulting in the death of one person.
Some experts link these extreme events to global warming. “There are no surprises,” Karim Elgendi, an associate member of the British think tank Chatham House, told AFP.
Scientists expect “an increase in precipitation variability,” which means more droughts but also heavier rainfall, he explained.
The intensity of this phenomenon has taken the city by surprise, which largely depends on the quality of its infrastructure to attract tourists and expatriates who make up the majority of its population.
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Source: CM Jornal
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