I remember someone here a few days ago saying that it was impossible to do. Looks like they were wrong. ANyone have info on how this works?
Could it have been "Yellow Rain"?
Use to be common in Calif to attempt this during drought years (talking about in the 1960s now).
see:
http://www.highbeam.com/library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:55553303&ctrlInfo=Round19%3AMode19b%3ADocG%3AResult&ao=
Big frikken deal...we invented Viagra.
Sounds like way too little to make a difference in precip doposit rates. The US has been researching cloud seeding since...oh I don't know at latest 1950's. The idea is to disperse a particulate into a water vapor dense cloud to cause the condensation of water onto the silver particles. I'm no expert, but it seems like it's hit or miss science at best.
Wow. All I can say is, "wow".
We had 4 inches in about an hour Thursday Night, 2.5 inches and hail that woke us up early this morning and more threatening nor.
No mas(at least for a while).
That might explain why the weather in interior Alaska is beginning to deteriorate. Maybe it will rain, which would be a plus, but the growing season is non-existent so far.
Ohoh. What will Art Bell have to say about this? Manipulating the weather?
No unusual at all in these United States: pluviculture has been practiced here since the 19th century. NOAA even has a poem on its website from 1891 about these efforts at http://www.history.noaa.gov/art/rainmachine.html:
An Ode to Pluviculture
or The Rhyme of the Rain Machine
by F. W. Clarke, 1891
Said Jeremy Jonathan Joseph Jones,
“The weather is far too dry,
So I reckon I’ll have to stir my bones
And try the effect of concussive tones
Upon the lazy sky.”
So Jeremy Jonathan Joseph went
Away to the nearest town:
And there his money was quickly spent
For queer contraptions all intent
To make the rain come down.
There were cannon, and mortars, and lots of shells,
And dynamite by the ton;
With a gas balloon and a chime of bells
And various other mystic spells
To overcloud the sun.
The day was fair and the sky was bright,
And never a cloud was seen;
When Jeremy Jonathan set alight
His biggest fuse and screwed up tight
The joints of the rain machine.
He fired a shot, and barely two,
When the sky began to pale;
The third one brought a heavy dew,
But at the fourth tornadoes blew,
With thunder, rain, and hail.
It rained all night and another day,
And then for a week or more;
It flooded the farm in a scandalous way,
And drowned poor Jeremy, sad to say,
Who Couldn’t stop the pour.
O! Jeremy Jonathan Joseph Jones,
Your farm was fair to see;
But now a lake lies over its stones,
From whose dark bosom horrific moans
Are heard noctallee.
To check the flood you started, I’ve heard
All efforts were in vain;
Until the Bureau at Washington stirred,
And stopped the storm with a single word,
By just predicting - Rain!
You can read about America's most famous rainmaker, Charles Hatfield, at the Wikipedia, or, for more detail, in last year's book The Wizard of Sun City: The Strange True Story of Charles Hatfield, the Rainmaker Who Drowned a City's Dreams by Garry Jenkins.
What did they do, buy every single Chinese citizen a six pack?
Right down C2C's road.
Weather Modification Article
which discusses the Senate Bill 517 and the "Owning The Weather in 2025" report.If the US Govt were to do the same thing, we would be hearing from Greenpeace and other environmental wackos. So, is Greenpeace protesting the Chinese Embassy? I don't think so.
"Tens of thousands died of silver iodide poisoning, but at least it was raining".