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2025-01-12 15:30:04 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Cloud seeding is ineffective during dry weather (e.g., a drought) because it relies on the presence of existing moisture in clouds to work. https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/archive-statements-of-the-ams/planned-weather-modification-through-cloud-seeding/#:~:text=Precipitation%20augmentation%20through,water%20in%20storage https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/dodging-silver-bullets-how-cloud-seeding-could-go-wrong/#:~:text=Particularly%20concerningly%2C%20it%20is%20widely%20acknowledged%20that%20cloud%20seeding%20is%20least%20likely%20to%20be%20effective%20during%20drought%20conditions%2C%20as%20clouds%20do%20not%20have%20moisture%20to%20release%2C%20and%20yet%20operations%20often%20continue%20during%20droughts https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2017/atp-cloud-seeding#:~:text=Because%20moisture%20is%20the%20first,create%20rain%20during%20drought%20conditions https://www.dri.edu/cloud-seeding-program/what-is-cloud-seeding/#:~:text=cloud%20seeding%20requires%20the%20presence%20of%20moisture%2Dfilled%20clouds https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/17/how-cloud-seeding-can-help-replenish-reservoirs-in-the-west.html#:~:text=We%20can%E2%80%99t%20make,perspective%2C%E2%80%9D%20Carkeet%20said Southern California was in a severe drought before and during the fire, so cloud seeding wouldn’t work. https://archive.ph/0dNc5 https://archive.ph/oxu0u https://archive.ph/ebSQM https://archive.ph/3Evjw https://web.archive.org/web/20250109223452/https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/this-weeks-unholy-mix-of-drought-wind-and-fire-in-southern-california/ https://archive.ph/1oURQ https://archive.ph/o7bF6

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• Cloud seeding is ineffective during dry weather (e.g., a drought) because it relies on the presence of existing moisture in clouds to work. https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/archive-statements-of-the-ams/planned-weather-modification-through-cloud-seeding/#:~:text=Precipitation%20augmentation%20through,water%20in%20storage https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/dodging-silver-bullets-how-cloud-seeding-could-go-wrong/#:~:text=Particularly%20concerningly%2C%20it%20is%20widely%20acknowledged%20that%20cloud%20seeding%20is%20least%20likely%20to%20be%20effective%20during%20drought%20conditions%2C%20as%20clouds%20do%20not%20have%20moisture%20to%20release%2C%20and%20yet%20operations%20often%20continue%20during%20droughts https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2017/atp-cloud-seeding#:~:text=Because%20moisture%20is%20the%20first,create%20rain%20during%20drought%20conditions https://www.dri.edu/cloud-seeding-program/what-is-cloud-seeding/#:~:text=cloud%20seeding%20requires%20the%20presence%20of%20moisture%2Dfilled%20clouds https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/17/how-cloud-seeding-can-help-replenish-reservoirs-in-the-west.html#:~:text=We%20can%E2%80%99t%20make,perspective%2C%E2%80%9D%20Carkeet%20said Southern California was in a severe drought before and during the fire, so cloud seeding wouldn’t work. https://archive.ph/0dNc5 https://archive.ph/oxu0u https://archive.ph/ebSQM https://archive.ph/3Evjw https://web.archive.org/web/20250109223452/https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/this-weeks-unholy-mix-of-drought-wind-and-fire-in-southern-california/ https://archive.ph/1oURQ https://archive.ph/o7bF6