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King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)

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The urban heat island effect causes increasing rainfall over Jeddah. In the city, roads and concrete canyons absorb sunlight; urban surfaces enhance turbulence; warm air rising from the city may collide with moist air from the Red Sea to increase urban rain by 26 percent more than the desert.

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