On April 16, 2024 Dubai was hit by a rainstorm that was the heaviest in 75 years. They received 4 inches of rain in 24 hours. There was massive flooding, airport closure and roads became lakes.
We arrived in Dubai three weeks after this storm. During our drive from the airport to our hotel, we asked our taxi driver what happened. He said it was somehow from the rain making they were doing in the UAE. For the last 10 years they had a government program to bring down the temperature and turn the desert into a forest, which would make Dubai an even more popular tourist destination.
Our driver was really proud of this rain making project even though there was the big storm. The temperature had successfully dropped ten degrees in the last ten years, and their ultimate goal was to bring it down another ten. He was happy bushes were now growing in the sandy desert.
While on a tour the next day, we drove past a large pool of water next to the road, so we asked our guide about the rainstorm. He said the flood was unexpected and probably a result of the weather modification.
After Dubai, we flew south to a set of islands in the Indian Ocean called the Seychelles. It was supposed to be dry and sunny that time of year, but they were having more rain than ever. This was negatively affecting their tourism.
When we asked our hotel manager about the rain, she said they were being impacted by the rain making project 2,000 miles to the north of them on the Arabian Peninsula from where we had just come.
We were surprised by how much she knew about weather modification. She knew it had been practiced since World War II.
We questioned her if this weather control was a good idea. She thought it might be fine for Dubai though it has been harmful for the Seychelles. And, the Dubai flash flood could have been a backlash from their interventions.
One day the sky was cloudy, and the weather was predicted to get worse. We felt sad because we had so many outdoor activities planned.
Then, we caught ourselves. We did not need to be personally impacted. We had intuitive tools.
I (Anne) remembered how we had invited a kahuna (a Hawaiian shaman) into one of our Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Institute trainings on Big Island in 1995. We asked him to show our students the power they had to intuitively communicate with nature.
The kahuna gathered our students into a circle on a cloudy day and had them enter a deep meditative state. He had them connect with the weather and appreciate it. Then he asked for the sun to appear. A hole opened up and the sun shone through into the circle. When the prayer was over, the clouds re-filled the space.
Remembering this technique, Greg and I started meditating and connecting with the weather in the Seychelles. We acknowledged the weather’s need to freely express itself and rain.We asked to be in sync with it and know when to be inside and when to go out. We asked to have the big rains come in the evenings, if that was at all possible. We expressed our appreciation for this budding friendship.
The storms cleared for our outdoor activities. Our hotel manager was surprised how the weather cooperated so that we were able to take the boat trip she had arranged for us to go see the giant turtles. She also noticed it rained when we ate lunch and cleared when we went out for a drive around the island. That night it let loose and poured so hard it woke us up.
The weather heard our respectful request and responded with kindness. And we listened with our intuition to know what to do when. We were not trying to control the weather. We were working together as a team, and we had a great time.
Exercise
If you would like to befriend the weather, here is something you can do the next time you are outdoors:
- Believe you can communicate with the weather. Believe you can be a team.
- Look to the skies. Find a cloud you like. Appreciate it.
- Go into your heart. Appreciate how you are part of nature, like the weather.
- Feel yourself naturally in flow with the clouds.
- Give thanks for your connection.
- Journal what you notice.
- Practice connecting with the clouds.
Links
- The Weather Experiment that Really Flooded Dubai: https://theconversation.com/the-weather-experiment-that-really-flooded-dubai-227021
- CNN Report on Dubai rainfall: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/weather/dubai-rain-flooding-climate-wednesday-intl/index.html
- Free documentary on Climate Engineering: The Dimming https://www.GeoengineeringWatch.org