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Watch: Deluge In Dubai as Storm Dumps 1.5 Years' Rain On UAE In A Span Of Few Hours, Floods Malls, Subways, Airport

Desert city-state Dubai experienced an unusual start to the weeks as heavy thunderstorms lashed the city and parts of the UAE, flooding major roadways, airports and the city’s driverless metro rail system. According to news agencies, the storms that lashed the UAE on Tuesday dumped over a year and a half’s worth of rain on Dubai. Fujairah is the only emirate that saw more rainfall than Dubai. The emirate on the UAE’s eastern coast, saw the heaviest rainfall Tuesday with 145 millimetres (5.7 inches) falling there. One person died in Ras al-Khaimah, the country’s northernmost emirate. The police there said one 70-year-old man died when his vehicle was swept away by floodwater.

Vehicles stand in flood water caused by heavy rains with the Burj Khalifa tower visible in the background, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Shoppers inside the Mall of the Emirates, one of the largest shopping centres in the world, were amazed to see water gushing down from the ceiling and parts of the ceiling come down due to the incessant rains which is the largest rainfall event for the country in 75 years.