Cloud Seeding Is Real. Here’s How It’s Done

Snow scientists say cloud seeding has big potential — Alex Hager (KUNC.org)

Scenes from the Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds: The Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE) project, which was undertaken in Idaho’s Payette Basin in winter 2017. Credit: Joshua Aikins via Aspen Journalism Click the link to read the article on the KUNC website (Alex Hager): January 20, 2025 This story is part of ongoing coverage of the Colorado River, produced by KUNC in Colorado and supported by the Walton Family Foundation. KUNC is solely …

Cloud Seeding Is Real. Here’s How It’s Done

Researchers have used a variety of aircraft and technologies to perform cloud seeding operations in the 78 years since scientists first began developing it. Cloud seeding is an approach to modify weather, most often for increasing precipitation. The usefulness and safety of this technology has mixed reviews with people and organizations both in favor of it and against it. Bombers for cloud seeding instead of combat One of the first uses of cloud…