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To: Twotone

i remember the last time “scientists” meddled with clouds: it was right before the Big Thompson Flood in Colorado ...

“Scientists” were “cloud-seeding” by releasing trillions of nanoscopic iodine particles from airplanes .... they got rain all right, LOTS of it: they made the Big Thompson Flood ...

funny thing though, “cloud-seeding” instantly stopped after that massive flood, and the media went completely silent about “cloud-seeding” as if it had never happened ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Big_Thompson_River_flood


83 posted on 04/13/2024 8:43:08 PM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: catnipman


i remember the last time “scientists” meddled with clouds: it was right before the Big Thompson Flood in Colorado ...

“Scientists” were “cloud-seeding” by releasing trillions of nanoscopic iodine particles from airplanes .... they got rain all right, LOTS of it: they made the Big Thompson Flood ...


 

Meteorological synopsis[edit]

On July 31, a thunderstorm complex developed alongside the Front Range of the southern Rocky Mountains, near Estes Park, Colorado.[5][6][7] 

The development was caused by a number of meteorological factors, including a shortwave trough, a polar front that moved across southeastern Colorado with the main polar airmass northeast of the Front Range, and moisture and unstable air behind a cold front extending across the Big Thompson Valley.[6] 

Upper-atmospheric light winds caused the thunderstorm complex to stay stationary, which produced heavy rainfall across portions of the Big Thompson Canyon, including up to 7.5 inches (190 mm) of rain falling in one hour.[5][8] 

Over four hours near Estes Park, 12–14 inches (300–360 mm) of rain fell, causing the Big Thompson River to overflow its banks and triggering a flood crest that moved through the river and the Big Thompson Canyon.[9][10][11] 

The flood crest moved at an average speed of 15 miles per hour (24 km/h), and crested at 30 feet (9.1 m).[10][12] 

A flash flood warning was issued at 23:00 Central Time (5:00 UTC), but was criticized because the warning was issued only several hours following the flood.[13]

 

Strange - it didn't get mentioned in the link.

91 posted on 04/13/2024 9:17:14 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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