evidence: On 14 February 2024, Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) Hindu Mandir in Abu Dhabi, marking the first Hindu stone temple in the United Arab Emirates. Against this backdrop, a viral video depicts rain falling over the newly constructed temple in UAE, with a claim attributing the rain to the divine power of Hindu Gods. The video is accompanied by assertions that it had never rained in the area until the day before the temple’s inauguration. The Hindi caption loosely translates to, ‘This is the power of Sanatan Dharma where it never rained, it rained for the first time after the construction of Ram temple.’ In this article, we aim to fact-check the claims made in the post. [...] However, the inaugural event coincided with adverse weather conditions and showers, as viral visuals depict rain over the temple the day before the inauguration. Yet, the claim that the area where the temple stands had never experienced rain until the day before the inauguration is inaccurate. Historical data on precipitation in the UAE, especially in Abu Dhabi city, available from the UAE’s Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre, indicates otherwise. [...] To sum it up, the rainfall during the inauguration of the Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi is not the first instance of rain in the city.