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Editable Country & world map templates for PowerPoint Presentations

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Exactly for that reason, we have prepared a complete PowerPoint filled with different world and country maps to download. This template serves you mappings to use right away, but also shows you how to add text, pictogram's and data to your presentation maps, in an interesting way. Of course you can change any of those slides to your preferences by adjusting the colours, forms, layouts and so on. Read our instruction to learn how to edit maps in PowerPoint. Map chart are a relatively new feature of PowerPoint - it's only available since Office 2019 or Office 365! If you also want to use your mappings in older versions of PowerPoint , the compatibility mode could be a nice solution. Office offers this mode to make it easier to work with different versions of PowerPoint without creating many problems. Click here to get more information on the official Microsoft site.

Our map template and finished PowerPoint:

• has editable mappings
• is free to use
• combines information and graphics on each slide
• is informative and clear

PowerPoint Maps Template:

Here we give you an instruction to edit the mappings of our PowerPoint template or create your own mappings for your presentation.

• insert maps
• edit layout
• select colours
• map for advanced users

Insert maps

Recently PowerPoint created the feature of creating a map in the program itself. This tool is very powerful but since it's quite new, some bugs occur from time to time. Nevertheless, here is how you quickly add a map to your slides:

• Click in the menu bar on Insert > Chart .
• A window pops up. Select Map and click OK .

• PowerPoint creates a default world map and opens a table in which you can write any other country names and values. PowerPoint will automatically change the map as soon as you change values.

• When you are finished, click on the X of the Excel table to close it. Attention! Until now, PowerPoint allows only 13 different countries. If you add more, they will get ignored. You can add names of continents, countries, regions and postcodes.
• To re-open the Excel table and change anything later as well: Right click on the map and choose "Edit Data" or click on the map and choose Chart Design > Edit Data in the menu ribbon.

Edit the layout of the map to your preferences

As said before, PowerPoint lets us choose between mapping the world or only a continent, focus on a country or using postcodes to draw regions and areas. Keep in mind, that combining different levels might not always work, for example when a city is too small to be seen on a world map.

You can add, remove or change chart elements by selecting the map and clicking on the plus symbol in the right, upper corner. Here you can choose between showing the title, data labels or legend and on which position they should appear.

Moreover, you can use the Design and Format Tabs in the menu to get to the editing tools or double click onto the map. Pay attention on which part of graphic you click on, since the formatting task pane refers to exactly those objects. (Format Chart Area, Format Plot Area or Format Data Series)

To move the map, just click on it and drag it by the graphics border to your desired place. To resize it: Click on its corners and move the mouse. (click Shift at the same time, to maintain the graphics proportions)

PowerPoint offers numerous ways to edit your map, so play around with the tools to create your favourite graphic. For example, you can hide countries without a data value or change the map projection. (The proportions of world maps)

Select your favourite colours

Think about the colour scheme for your whole PowerPoint presentation. A specific scheme for all slides makes the whole presentation easier to follow and your slides will perfectly harmonize together. There are different ways to change your graphics colour depending on, if you want to include the data to your colour plan or if you want to adjust each colour manually.

Use a default colour scheme:

• First, select your map
• Go to Design and click on Change Colours
• Here you can use any of those schemes which consider the inserted data and can go from the brightest to the darkest colour

Task pane: Format Data Series:

• Double click onto the map to open the Format Data Series menu
• Open the Series Colour tool and choose your minimum and maximum colour of decision

Individual colours:

• Select individual countries or parts (they have to be highlighted)
• Choose Fill and optionally Outline . You can also change the "weight" and "dashes"" of the outline
• If you click onto the maps background, you can also change the background colour of the map (makes sense for an island)

Fill all parts with the same colour

• If you have only one country, it makes sense to fill it with a single colour. This can be done with the method explained before (Individual colours) or by selecting your map and going to the chart menu Format > Shape Fill
• As before, you will find the same tools and options to change your objects, colour, outline or even effect (shadow,...)

With SlideLizard CREATOR , you can automatically update colours and images in all your presentations. Manage your slides in a central library and automatically synchronise slide changes with all your presentations. You can also organise your slides with tags and folders to find them as quickly as possible.

Tips for PowerPoint maps and charts

• Since you can only add 13 individual countries to a map, PPT quickly comes to its limits. Use Excel if you want to create more complex maps and copy the finished map to your slides.
• If you insert a country's name into the table, PPT ignores the lines between each states and draws only the large country. To add the lines, simply insert two federal- state names instead of the country's name and it will draw each single state.

• The feature of drawing maps is relatively new, PowerPoint sometimes has problems to draw the map. You might have to delete a graphic and start again but the result will pay, so don't give up! Save your project from time to time to avoid the loss of a lot of work.

Our advanced map with even more options

Last but not least, we present you a map for advanced PPT- mapping- users. You can find this map on the last slide of our downloadable PowerPoint presentation . This graphic is an SVG- file, which means that you can grab and move each country of the world map to any place you want. Moreover, you can change it's colour again (the same way as before) and delete or resize them as well.

If you want to find a specific country or make some objects unseen, there's an easy way to do so:

• Go to the Home > Drawing menu and click on Arrange
• Select the last option Selection Pane
• A tool bar will pop up. Here you can click on the right "eye" symbols to hide or un-hide one of the countries.

That was it! Have a lot of fun at creating your map or using our finished ones!

How can I insert maps in PowerPoint?

With the help of PowerPoints map function you can create maps directly in PowerPoint and edit them as you like. We have created some country and world map templates which you can download here for free. You can read here everything around maps in PowerPoint.

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Using Maps in PowerPoint Presentations

Maps can be an important highlight in many presentations. When touching upon topics related to history, geography, business outlets, or the potential to expand to newer geographical locations, using maps in PowerPoint presentations can play an important role. Usually, presenters use static images to present maps, making the presentation quite dull and confusing. A better alternative is to use PowerPoint Map Templates .

Download PowerPoint Map Templates For Continents, Countries And The World Map

Slide Model provides many such templates for different continents, countries, and the world map. Whether you need a map of Europe or a template with a comprehensive map of the United States or the UK, you can use our 100% editable Map Templates for presentations. These map templates come with a diverse range of layouts, maps for a whole region/country and even specific areas.

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World Map And Connections PowerPoint Template

This is an amazing PowerPoint Template with a world map and pointers to help you show the different connections between different parts of the world. For example, you can use this template to display the different outlets of a business or to demonstrate the connectivity of an infrastructure (e.g. Telecom Infrastructure) across different regions. This World Map template is suitable for any kind of presentation which may require showing the World Map, be it for academic, business or personal use.

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World Map & Map Pointers For PowerPoint

If you are looking for a flat world map with large pointers in the form of clipart, then the World Map & Map Pointers PowerPoint Template is just what you need. Using this template you can mark different areas of the world map by moving around the given pointers. These pointers (GPS icons)are flexible enough to be moved, copied and deleted as per requirement. The template also provides different color layouts to help you craft visually appealing presentations that match with your content right down to the color tone.

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Europe Map PowerPoint Template

Among the different continental templates the Europe map PowerPoint Template provides a comprehensive map of Europe with GPS icons to be used as markers.

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US Map PowerPoint Template

Among template for individual countries; the US Map PowerPoint Template delivers a complete map of the United States in different layouts with pointers to mark specific locations. You can download this template from the link given below and explore other such templates from our Map Templates Page .

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When you need to present a map to an audience, the editable map templates can suit well in a business presentation. Or if you are an educator and need to talk about a specific geographic area, maps can help to visually understand where certain region, area or country is located.

In this article, we reviewed some of the map templates available for PowerPoint presentations and how to use them to create business presentations in PowerPoint tor Google Slides.

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PowerPoint maps are great tools to tell visual stories – showing locations around the world and how they might all connect, global route maps for travel or logistics and different options, or really anything in the universe that you can show on some kind of map.

PowerPoint maps

What’s really neat, is that Office 365 has maps for PowerPoint built-in. But, as with many things Microsoft, they’re tricky to find. Head on over to the Insert tab on the ribbon, and then Charts, on the left of center. Half-way down the list, buried in the bars, lines, and radar charts, you find PowerPoint maps.

PowerPoint US map

You get a map template and an Excel sheet. Things get interesting here, because you can type places into the Excel, like Massachusetts and Florida, for instance, put a value next to them, and then PowerPoint generates a US map highlighting those two states with a color heatmap based on the numbers you put in the Excel. You can add in any state, or even specific zip codes, and you’ll highlight the areas on the PowerPoint map.

PowerPoint world map

If you type countries into the map, it expands, showing the appropriate geographical area, which might just focus on a region, or show the entire world map. Simply add the country name, add a number to the data series, and you’ll see it highlighted on the world map – all using the standard PowerPoint maps function.

Editable PowerPoint map

Once you have your map laid out, you have a couple of additional options, all of which are what you’d expect from a chart. You can click on the brush icon on the right of the chart to change the style, which is useful if you want to show the outlines of each state or country. You can also alter the color of the map, all of which is based on your color theme. As the map only has a single data series, choosing any of the colorful themes is somewhat pointless, and if you’d like to alter the color of the country highlights, then choose a monochromatic color theme for the map.

As an aside, and as a wish for future iterations of this, it would be great if the map supported multiple data series. At the moment, it’s only one, so you can’t have two color sets on the same map, which is a shame. There are some other quirks that we’ve found, that are at the bottom of the article, but this is probably more of a feature request, than an issue.

You can alter the general map color – everything that you’ve not selected as a highlight country – by using the fill color options. If you just select the map on the outside of the frame, changing the fill color will fill in the background – or, perhaps easier to understand, the ocean. If you click on the map itself, you’ll see the double selection box, showing that you’ve highlighted the actual map part within the chart, and now changing the fill color will alter the map – or land. That means you can choose something more pleasing, or help bring out the contrast of the heatmap countries better.

PowerPoint map chart elements

Click on the green plus icon on the right of the PowerPoint map, and you can alter the chart elements. The options for the title and legend are fairly straightforward, but data labels can be interesting. The default data label is the number you’ve used, but if you choose more data label options, you can choose the formatting of the number, or add in the category name, which is going to be the country, or state, that you’ve highlighted. So it’s a nice way to get an annotated map.

PowerPoint map type and heatmap color scheme

Finally, you can alter the chart options, by right clicking on the PowerPoint map and choosing Format Data Series from the pop-up menu. This brings up options for what type of map you get. PowerPoint tries to be smart about what it shows, but you can purposely set a Mercator style, to stretch everything out flat, a Miller map, which is a decent compromise between stretched poles and something flat, and a Robinson map, which is probably the most common map type you see. You can also choose the map area, with different options, depending on the content of your Excel table. You can show the map at the postal code level, state, country, or local region level, and also the entire world map. You can also focus in on the regions with data – just be careful that you don’t end up with odd-looking floating countries with no context.

Next on the list, you have more controls over the series color, using either the standard sequential system, with two colors, or a divergent three-color system. With either, you can set what those colors are, and also specify particular values for them, if you’d like a non-linear scale, which opens up the possibilities for more variety in heatmap color.

Editable US and world map for PowerPoint

But wait, what if you don’t have Office 365 and can’t access these maps? Never fear intrepid explorers, the world can still be your mollusk, you just have to ask nicely… You’re going to have to make do with non-live maps – that is, they’re not Excel-linked – but you can get editable PowerPoint maps with individual countries or US states. Download a free PowerPoint world map, PowerPoint country map, and PowerPoint US state map here . Each thing is just a standard PowerPoint shape, so you can format it however you like, and you can see the country names in the Selection Pane, which is on the Home tab on the ribbon, then Arrange, on the right-hand side, and down at the bottom of the list.

Using PowerPoint maps

Now you’ve got a PowerPoint map, what to do with it. Here’s one technique, which shows how a little layering and animation can go a long way:

• Get one, blank map, then copy the map, and line the two on top of each other using the alignment tools, which you can find in the Home tab on the ribbon, then the Arrange group of functions on the right, and under Align at the bottom.
• Select the top map and change the highlighting, choosing whatever counties you want to stand out – by right clicking on the live PowerPoint map, choosing Edit Data and altering the numbers in the Excel.
• Now add a simple Entrance animation to the top map, by going to the Animation tab on the ribbon, select Add Animation on the right, and choose your animation – fade is good.
• In show mode, you first see the entire world map, and then click to bring in the top layer with the selections, drawing attention to the highlighted countries.
• Go back, add in a third map, with other countries highlighted, or different values in the Excel for a new heatmap, add in another entrance animation, and you can now start to build up a picture of things changing over time.

You could also use this cool technique by my colleague, Chris, on creating the illusion of a 3D world map, using just flat graphics.

Remember, you don’t have to use this technique with just a world map. You can use the regional maps, such as the editable US map to show all the states, and highlight specific ones – perhaps showing your road trip adventures, or the places that you have locations to serve clients.

This new function is a great way to create a map in PowerPoint and use it to tell stories. So why not try it now, wherever you are.

PowerPoint map states, countries, and regions

In playing around with the specific functions, the mapping works with specific zip or postal codes in a few countries (USA, UK, France, and Germany all seem good). The problem is that you either get a specific zip code map, which isn’t very useful with no context, or the entire country, so the highlight is way too small to see properly. The exception seems to be the USA, where you can also do things at a state level with the 50 states PowerPoint map, and you can see everything pretty easily.

The next level up is to show individual country maps, which could be useful, particularly as a PowerPoint map template for you to add your own things on top.

After that, there are some geographic regional maps, which are probably reasonably obvious, but not quite. The UK is there as four separate countries, and then more generally useful macro views of North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Middle East & Asia. Try any countries within these groups, and they’ll be highlighted in the same area. I couldn’t get Russia or any of the countries in Oceania to be part of a region though. Try anything outside of the specific region, and it’s then up to a world map. Overall, not too bad, with pretty decent flexibility and choice, although it would be great to have more control.

PowerPoint map glitches

Alright, what goes wrong? Well, depending on how much you push it, potentially quite a bit. The first thing to note is that this function relies on Bing Maps and being online. If you’re on a fast connection, it’s pretty instant, but on a slow connection, and you could find it takes a while. You can only create maps when online, but once created, you can still view them, and edit the numbers in the Excel to alter the heatmap. You can’t add any new countries when offline though.

The second issue is stability. PowerPoint maps crashed the program on several occasions – far more frequently than anything else ever has. It’s far from unusable, but make sure you’re saving regularly. To be fair, it’s largely happened when either on a slow connection, or I’ve been jumping all over the world, highlighting different countries, but never-the-less, an experience you need to be aware of.

Then there’s another issue that you can’t highlight more than 12 countries. Which is annoying, and I don’t understand why, as you can have more than 12 data points in other charts, and the countries are all there on the map too.

After these primary glitches, you then come onto others that are a tad odd. As mentioned before, the UK is available as a regional map with separate countries – England, Scotland, and Wales. Try Northern Ireland though, and you get nothing, but it does get highlighted if you type NI, which is interesting. Oh, and once you’ve got any of those four, no other country can be added. You have to change things back to UK before adding other countries in. To be fair, the same is true with zip codes, which you can’t mix and match with countries. But it just seems odd, as these are countries.

In other odd quirks, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and all the South Pacific Islands don’t appear, unless you manually type them into the Excel. So, to get a complete map, you need to type them in, and put a zero-value next to them. Antarctica does appear on the PowerPoint world map, but, can’t be highlighted. So it takes up a huge space at the bottom, but you can’t do anything with it.

But the weirdest thing is that, presumably for political reasons, Aksai Chin (disputed between China and India) and Western Sahara (disputed between Morocco and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) don’t show up on the map at all. It seems bizarre to me that the solution to long running political tensions is just to deny the existence of the land itself. (In looking at this, it seems that Gibraltar is not only Spanish, but also highlights all of Spain too, so some politics likely to annoy at least some people out there).

These are the only ones of which the news has come to BrightCarbon, and there may be many others but they haven’t been discovered.

Richard Goring

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You can get plenty more than 12 countries if you right click, choose Select Data, and under Chart data range, enter a larger range than $A$1:$B$12

You’re right, thanks. I cant figure out whether I missed that, or it didn’t work when I first looked at this. A couple of other things have certainly been fixed since. I’ve also since met some of the PowerPoint development team and asked them to put New Zealand on the map. Here’s hoping! But I’ll probably chalk this one up to me missing it, and it being a ridiculously complex way of adding more countries to the map and not at all intuitive. Great spot and comment through. Thanks!

OMG. You made a Tom Lehrer joke! You are awesome!

What surprises me is that everyone else doesn’t.

This is awesome! 🙂

Much easier than copy a world map picture then cut out the country you wish to use then edit color with it to only repeat the process for the next country you wish to insert. I remember doing this with Publisher when I did some comparing stuff back in around 2005. Then I had a fat screen and a brick for a computer. 😛

Anyways, great work making this “guide”. 😀

Just too hard for me. I’m doing a presentation for friends and they want each country they have either lived or visited to be coloured and come up sequentially using set animations so they role out. I can’t add countries in Europe and of course New Zealand. I think they will have to make do with my dots on countries. I really wish I could figure this out as it would be a very powerful page. Many thanks, Eliz T from Australia.

Hi I am using Powerpoint 2016, however I am not able to find the Map in the ‘Insert-Chart’ list. What can I do? Thanks!

Thanks for the information.

Just knew that there is a map available in PPT, very useful information for me.

I am trying to enter data on a PowerPoint map for 24 different states but it will only plot 12 different states. What I am doing wrong?

Hi Robert, you’re not doing anything wrong. Annoyingly, this is a limitation of the tool. You can only highlight 12 fields as a time. I noted above as countries, but it applies to anything. We’ve made Microsoft aware of this and they’re looking into it, but I don’t know whether or when they’ll be able to update it.

Lovely – thanks

how can we add Bhutan map and its district map for powerpoint presentation…

I used your editable USA map to create a multivariate geographic heat map on the 2016 Presidential Election. Thank you for the great resource! See the Youtube video (my first!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cIKfUt4pL4

Hey. Great explanation. I was frustrated for the same reason that it didn’t allow more than 12 data points. But then I found the solution.

The chart comes with a standard data range reference of A1:B13. So anything that you enter post that range is not reflected in the chart.

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This solves most of our issues, but yeah, the issues of different location spellings is still there. They should just give us the option to add the data point against the location that we select on the map. It gets very easy that way.

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I’ll go about 30-40 mins and then we’ll Q&A/discuss for a similar stretch of time, with attendees either submitting questions in the chat during my presentation or offering them live on mike afterwards.

We’ll record and share the recording. A PDF copy of the slide deck will also be shared.

Why May 1? It’s just been a while since I’ve done one and demand builds.

Throughline and I remain committed to the goal of socializing the need for grand strategic thinking regarding climate change and how our hemisphere will need to adapt to its decades-long unfolding, so please help us spread this message as you see fit by re-extending this invitation to your own networks.

You know, I recently watched the first half of Apple’s two-part documentary on Steve Martin and his career.

The first episode was incredibly revealing because it showed how Martin had slowly built and honed really just a single stage show over many years before it finally clicked.

For about 15 years, really from his teenage stint working at a Disneyland magic store and extending right through to his breakout performances on the opening seasons of Saturday Night Live, Martin worked that singular presentation layer by layer. At first, it was an incredibly tough sell because he was pushing a brand of comedy truly out of step with the politics of his age (late 60s/early 70s). As Elvis himself told him, his comedy was “oblique” to everything and everyone else out there.

For Martin then, it was really a matter of those bits and pieces coming together into this iconic whole that, once his audience caught up to what he was doing, eventually broke through to mass acceptance and really made him the first comic in history capable of filling arenas (my very first “concert” was his show in the Dane County Coliseum during his historic Wild and Crazy Guy tour).

There wasn’t this wide array of Steve Martin performances; there was just this singular presentation that grew and expanded over time and eventually connected with an incredibly wide audience.

As Martin explains, instead of the usual set-up that creates tension and then a punchline that releases that tension in a very explicit fashion (as in, audience: LAUGH HERE!), he sought to create tensions that were never directly deflated but kept simmering out there until the audience caught on that this lack of resolution was — in and of itself — the actual joke (basically, the hipster doofus doing comedy without realizing that he’s not all that funny).

In short, a really hard sell given the comedy norms of the time, in many ways because his act is a meta-commentary on traditional comedy delivery — a style that a generation of comics have since embraced (when they’re simultaneously telling the joke and explicitly commenting on their own material/delivery, like a magician who explains the trick while they’re doing it but somehow still pulls off the trick in a way that baffles you [Ricky Jay was the master of that]). Martin’s specific trick was that he forced the audience to make those connections on their own.

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So why am I telling you this?

Watching the show confirmed a lot of things about my own career. I have crafted and honed and delivered basically the same set for decades now:

This is globalization

This is how came about

This is what’s going on with it now.

This is where it is inevitably heading due to forces X, Y, and Z

This is what that future will look and feel like

This is how we get ready for that future

And this is how we can shape that future.

I am … a broadly framing guy!

Delivering briefs is a lot of like delivering a stand-up set: you have your basic points to make, tensions to create and release, and so on. Most of all, you want to alter your audience’s frame of reference: take them somewhere they’ve never been but will be amazed by.

Tension and release.

Insert AWARENESS HERE!

I spent a solid decade building The Pentagon’s New Map brief and then another decade delivering it around the world.

I started building and honing this America’s New Map brief starting in 2011 — or thirteen years ago. I expect to be working and delivering it for at least another decade.

On some level, thinking in grand strategic terms, you NEVER want your audience to totally catch up with you because you want to keep pushing the time envelope so that you’re about 5-15 years ahead of the punchline hitting home.

And so you stay on the road, doing gigs both big and small, honing your message just a little bit after each and every performance.

I simultaneously love and hate my career: creating tension, keeping ahead of the audience, and, by doing so, never achieving genuine release — by design.

I honestly don’t know why I so compulsively keep at it. It’s just my purpose, I guess, and that self-realization is enough to motivate me.

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LOOK: Renderings for Bears' new lakefront stadium in Chicago

The Chicago Bears unveiled plans for a new lakefront stadium Wednesday during a presentation at Soldier Field.

The Bears will invest $2 billion of what's reportedly a $4.6 billion project, according to the Sun-Times .

Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson said the building of a new Bears stadium will "result in no new taxes on the residents of Chicago."

“This is not an easy project, but Chicago doesn’t like it easy," said Bears president/CEO Kevin Warren. "We like to do the difficult things ... the things that resonate with people for generations to come,” Bears President Kevin Warren told a news conference Wednesday afternoon at Soldier Field.

The Bears shared renderings of a state-of-the-art, domed stadium along Chicago's lakefront atop the current South Parking lot of Soldier Field. The renderings feature an all-glass roof, keeping the historic colonnades in place and shares some similarities with Allegiant Stadium (Las Vegas) and U.S. Bank Stadium (Minnesota).

Here are the renderings, along with a video, released by the team, via ChicagoBears.com .

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Get ready to launch into a universe where science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) come alive! In partnership with the Kent Community Foundation and the Kent School District, we're thrilled to invite you to our exhilarating, FREE Space for All STEM Festival, a celebration of diversity and inclusion that’s set to ignite minds and inspire dreams across our community. This isn’t just any event; it’s a dynamic, interactive adventure for the whole family! From 11- 2pm, there will be many interactive activities from organizations such as Blue Origin's Club for the Future ,Open World, Space United, and more! Prepare to be starstruck as we welcome a true celestial pioneer, the remarkable retired astronaut Jose M. Hernandez! With stories that soar beyond the stratosphere, Jose will share his incredible journey from a child of migrant farmworkers to circling the cosmos. His keynote presentation is not just a story of reaching for the stars—it's a testament to the power of diversity, determination, and dreaming big. Get your FREE tickets today!  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-for-all-stem-festival-tickets-872966…

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An international team of researchers found that heavy rains had intensified in the region, though they couldn’t say for sure how much climate change was responsible.

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Scenes of flood-ravaged neighborhoods in one of the planet’s driest regions stunned the world this month. Heavy rains in the United Arab Emirates and Oman submerged cars, clogged highways and killed at least 21 people. Flights out of Dubai’s airport, a major global hub, were severely disrupted.

The downpours weren’t a total surprise — forecasters had anticipated the storms several days earlier and issued warnings. But they were certainly unusual.

Here’s what to know.

Heavy rain there is rare, but not unheard-of.

On average, the Arabian Peninsula receives a scant few inches of rain a year, although scientists have found that a sizable chunk of that precipitation falls in infrequent but severe bursts, not as periodic showers. These rains often come during El Niño conditions like the ones the world is experiencing now.

U.A.E. officials said the 24-hour rain total on April 16 was the country’s largest since records there began in 1949 . And parts of the nation had already experienced an earlier round of thunderstorms in March.

Oman, with its coastline on the Arabian Sea, is also vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Past storms there have brought torrential rain, powerful winds and mudslides, causing extensive damage.

Global warming is projected to intensify downpours.

Stronger storms are a key consequence of human-caused global warming. As the atmosphere gets hotter, it can hold more moisture, which can eventually make its way down to the earth as rain or snow.

But that doesn’t mean rainfall patterns are changing in precisely the same way across every part of the globe.

In their latest assessment of climate research , scientists convened by the United Nations found there wasn’t enough data to have firm conclusions about rainfall trends in the Arabian Peninsula and how climate change was affecting them. The researchers said, however, that if global warming were to be allowed to continue worsening in the coming decades, extreme downpours in the region would quite likely become more intense and more frequent.

Hot oceans are a big factor.

An international team of scientists has made a first attempt at estimating the extent to which climate change may have contributed to April’s storms. The researchers didn’t manage to pin down the connection precisely, though in their analysis, they did highlight one known driver of heavy rain in the region: above-normal ocean temperatures.

Large parts of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans have been hotter than usual recently, in part because of El Niño and other natural weather cycles, and in part because of human-induced warming .

When looking only at El Niño years, the scientists estimated that storm events as infrequent as this month’s delivered 10 percent to 40 percent more rain to the region than they would in a world that hadn’t been warmed by human activities. They cautioned, however, that these estimates were highly uncertain.

“Rainfall, in general, is getting more extreme,” said Mansour Almazroui, a climate scientist at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and one of the researchers who contributed to the analysis.

The analysis was conducted by scientists affiliated with World Weather Attribution, a research collaboration that studies extreme weather events shortly after they occur. Their findings about this month’s rains haven’t yet been peer reviewed, but are based on standardized methods .

The role of cloud seeding isn’t clear.

The U.A.E. has for decades worked to increase rainfall and boost water supplies by seeding clouds. Essentially, this involves shooting particles into clouds to encourage the moisture to gather into larger, heavier droplets, ones that are more likely to fall as rain or snow.

Cloud seeding and other rain-enhancement methods have been tried around the world, including in Australia, China, India, Israel, South Africa and the United States. Studies have found that these operations can, at best, affect precipitation modestly — enough to turn a downpour into a bigger downpour, but probably not a drizzle into a deluge.

Still, experts said pinning down how much seeding might have contributed to this month’s storms would require detailed study.

“In general, it is quite a challenge to assess the impact of seeding,” said Luca Delle Monache, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. Dr. Delle Monache has been leading efforts to use artificial intelligence to improve the U.A.E.’s rain-enhancement program.

An official with the U.A.E.’s National Center of Meteorology, Omar Al Yazeedi, told news outlets that the agency didn’t conduct any seeding during the latest storms. His statements didn’t make clear, however, whether that was also true in the hours or days before.

Mr. Al Yazeedi didn’t respond to emailed questions from The New York Times, and Adel Kamal, a spokesman for the center, didn’t have further comment.

Cities in dry places just aren’t designed for floods.

Wherever it happens, flooding isn’t just a matter of how much rain comes down. It’s also about what happens to all that water once it’s on the ground — most critically, in the places people live.

Cities in arid regions often aren’t designed to drain very effectively. In these areas, paved surfaces block rain from seeping into the earth below, forcing it into drainage systems that can easily become overwhelmed.

One recent study of Sharjah , the capital of the third-largest emirate in the U.A.E., found that the city’s rapid growth over the past half-century had made it vulnerable to flooding at far lower levels of rain than before.

Omnia Al Desoukie contributed reporting.

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The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission met in Riverton April 16-17 to discuss and approve the annual hunting season regulations and quotas. After hearing season presentations and reviewing public comments, the Commission passed the 2024 hunting season regulations and quotas.

The finalized season information is available on the Wyoming Game and Fish Department website . Hunters who have already applied are encouraged to  check the hunt areas they applied for to see if any changes occurred during the season-setting process. The department's Hunt Planner tool will be updated with the approved seasons by the beginning of May.

Game and Fish personnel provided the Commission with an update on trapping, the Speas Fish Hatchery cool/warm-water facility and landowner licenses. Additionally, the department and partners provided a presentation on the Dubois U.S. Highway 26 construction project. The Commission also listened to significant public comment on the Sublette County wolf incident.

A full recording of the Commission meeting is available online .

The next Commission meeting is May 21-22 in Dubois and will coincide with the Wyoming Sportsperson Conservation Forum that will be held at the National Museum of Military Vehicles. 

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