Scientists in the US are flying planes into clouds to make it ... - CNN
Mar 14, 2022 — Cloud seeding uses an already existing cloud, and injectssilver iodide into the cloud, which adds tiny particles called ice nuclei (which water needs to freeze). Clouds, in basic terms, are a...
Cloud seeding - Wikipedia
Cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation, mitigate hail or disperse fog. The usual objective is to increase rain or snow, either for its own sake or to prevent precipitation from occurring in days afterward.
Aerial Cloud Seeding - The Rainmakers of Aerial Work Aviation
Sep 21, 2023 — Cloud Penetrating Aircraft – Specialized aircraft designed for cloud research and seeding, known as cloud penetrators, can be used for precise seeding. These aircraft have instruments for measuring atmospheric conditions and cloud characteristics.
Eight States Are Seeding Clouds to Overcome Megadrought
Mar 16, 2021 — Today, cloud seeding operations take place in at least eight states across the western U.S., with varying levels of investment often shared among state agencies, utilities and private companies...
Making It Rain: How The Beechcraft King Air Is Used For Cloud Seeding
Nov 11, 2023 — Cloud seeding using Beechcraft King Air planes has revolutionized the way desert regions bring much-needed rain to their areas. The United Arab Emirates National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology has perfected the cloud seeding process using airborne aircraft and microscopic salt particles.
The pilots who make it rain - BBC
Jul 21, 2016 — Cloud seeding, the practice of injecting certain materials into storm cells to enhance precipitation, has drawn interest from a growing number of water-strapped countries – particularly in the...
What Are Chemtrails and Should You Be Scared of Them?
Oct 20, 2023 — It's hard to look up in the sky on a clear day and not see a "cloud" trailing from an airplane. They're called contrails, though some refer to them as "chemtrails" and have odd explanations for their existence.
How cloud seeding can make it rain or prevent extreme weather
Apr 17, 2024 — Technology can make water vapour in clouds stick together into droplets of rain or snow. Hygroscopic flares are attached to an aircraft during a cloud seeding flight operated by the...
Providing charge emission for cloud seeding aircraft
Sep 11, 2024 — This series of experiments demonstrates that the flare emitter concept provides a device that can release charge under pilot control during a flight and that is straightforwardly fitted to an existing cloud seeding aircraft.
A plane was ‘cloud seeding’ in the Sierra this week to make it rain ...
Mar 16, 2022 — A specially equipped cloud seeding airplane that flies over the Sierra foothills to load clouds with silver iodide so they produce more precipitation, at the Modesto Municipal Airport, in...