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Dubai was hit with the heaviest rainfall in 75 years after a whole year’s worth of rain fell in a day on April 16 plunging the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) into chaos. Dubai’s international airport was turned into a lake of watervideos on social media show, and there was ankle-high water in the local metro system thanks to the torrential rain. Lightning strikes were seen flashing across the sky, occasionally hitting the tip of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. The UAE’s National Centre of Meteorology issued a weather warning for large swathes of the country, includin…

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