Record-breaking rain floods Dubai’s airport and swamps desert

Dubai | The desert nation of the United Arab Emirates was trying to dry out on Wednesday local time (Thursday AEST) from the heaviest rain ever recorded there after a deluge flooded out Dubai International Airport, disrupting flights through the world’s busiest airfield for international travel.

The state-run WAM news agency called the rain on Tuesday “a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949″. That was before the discovery of crude oil in this energy-rich nation then part of a British protectorate known as the Trucial States.

AP