Rain and wadi warning
Will it rain where you are? Rain now and over the next 24 hours, rain around you, and a clear warning when heavy rain or thunderstorms make wadis and low roads dangerous.
Runs on your phone. Your city choice is not saved. Only the place's coordinates (your own, if you tap "My location") are sent to the free Open-Meteo weather service to get the forecast.
Rain nearby
Nine points about 30 km apart, with you in the middle. Slide from 3 hours ago to 6 hours ahead. This is the forecast model's rain, not a real radar.
How to read it
Each bar is the rain expected in that hour. Under 1 mm is light. 4 mm or more in an hour is heavy, and in the UAE that is enough to flood low roads and send water rushing down wadis.
The dotted line is the chance that at least a little rain falls in that hour. A high chance with very few millimetres means a light shower.
CAPE measures how much energy the air has for rising storm clouds. Over 1,000 J/kg is enough for thunderstorms if something sets them off, and over 2,500 J/kg can feed strong ones.
Rain on the mountains can send a flood down a wadi where the sky is clear. That is why the warning looks at the storms around you, not only above you.
This page reads a computer forecast and can be wrong. Always follow the National Center of Meteorology's alerts (yellow: be aware, orange: be prepared, red: take action) and the police. Emergency: 999.
Sources: Live forecast from Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com, free, no key), hourly precipitation, chance of precipitation, showers, WMO weather codes (95 to 99 are thunderstorms) and CAPE. Safety advice: UAE Ministry of Interior warning for 21 October 2026 (keep away from wadis, where rainwater can flow rapidly; avoid places where water collects; stay out of the sea and off beaches; lower your speed; follow official directions), and Abu Dhabi Police with the National Center of Meteorology's yellow convective cloud and flash flood alert of 13 October 2026 (follow the variable speed limits, keep a safe distance, switch on headlights and pull over safely if visibility drops or hail is heavy, stay away from wadis and valleys), both as reported by Gulf News. NCM alert colours: yellow, orange and red. Record: 254 mm in under 24 hours at Khatm Al Shakla, Al Ain, to 9 pm on 16 April 2024, the heaviest since records began in 1949 (NCM, reported by Gulf News and WAM). CAPE ranges: US National Weather Service. "Heavy" here means 4 mm or more in an hour or 10 mm or more in 24 hours, a simple rule for this page, not an official threshold.