A rather bizarre thing happened in Dubai a few weeks ago. It rained for a full 8 minutes in the morning! Now our 'rainy season' is typically December/Jan, so it was very odd to see rain in the middle of May. The next day, we found out that the rain was caused by the local Met office doing some rain experiments - no, they didn't dance around a fire trying to invoke clouds, but they used planes to sprinkle special salts in the air, which in turn caused the rain. Now it was a rain that was mostly muddy, destroyed my laundry, and ruined my brand new Ace Hardware BBQ grill, but on the plus side, the rain did bring the temperature down a few degrees. The funniest thing though was that once people found out that the rainfall wasn't natural, everyone was up in arms with 'Oh should we play God and make the rain ourselves' type arguments. For me the only question is that now that we can make it rain, when is it going to rain men?

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