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UAE airdrome authorities cancelled oregon delayed dozens of flights and roads were flooded successful large cities arsenic the heaviest rainstorm successful months lashed the godforsaken federation connected Friday (December 19, 2025).
Dubai’s Emirates hose axed 13 flights connected Friday (December 19, 2025) and determination were besides delays and cancellations astatine neighbouring Sharjah’s airdrome aft the overnight downpour, which woke residents with lightning flashes and large cracks of thunder.
Sharjah’s main thoroughfare was wholly flooded aboriginal connected Friday (December 19, 2025), with residents seen wading done it successful bare feet. One antheral rode his bicycle done the water, which reached the apical of its wheels.
The scenes evoked memories of April 2024, erstwhile grounds rains caused wide flooding and forced the cancellation of much than 2,000 flights astatine Dubai’s large planetary aerial hub.
On Thursday (December 18, 2025), Dubai constabulary had urged residents to enactment successful unless “absolutely necessary” arsenic the rainstorm approached.
Early connected Friday (December 19, 2025), water-pumping trucks were seen astir Dubai clearing blocked roads and ample puddles successful the streets.
The Dubai Airports website showed dozens of flights had been delayed connected Friday, and immoderate cancelled.
“Some flights... are cancelled oregon delayed owed to adverse weather,” a Dubai Airports spokesperson said.
The National Center of Meteorology had warned of rainfall crossed the state from Thursday to Friday, including successful Dubai and the superior Abu Dhabi.
Other Gulf states besides experienced dense rain, including Qatar wherever the Arab Cup football’s third-place play-off betwixt Saudi Arabia and UAE was cancelled connected Thursday.
Last year’s downpours successful the UAE, the heaviest since records began 76 years ago, killed astatine slightest 4 radical and brought Dubai to a standstill for days.
A survey published by the World Weather Attribution radical recovered that planetary warming caused by fossil substance emissions “most likely” exacerbated the aggravated rains that lashed the UAE and Oman past year.
