Depressing weather.!
Mar 2nd 2017, 4:25 am
#46
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Re: Depressing weather.!
Cloud seeding is making a lot of money for a few snake oil salesman.
I've seen studies saying it can work and just as many saying there's no evidence at all that it increases or promotes any rainfall. Personally I'm pretty skeptical.
I've seen studies saying it can work and just as many saying there's no evidence at all that it increases or promotes any rainfall. Personally I'm pretty skeptical.
Mar 2nd 2017, 6:28 am
#47
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Re: Depressing weather.!
When I worked in a ski resort in Colorado in 2001 our resort (and several others) were seeding clouds. Annoyingly for us, several times we seeded clouds and the wind changed and the cloud ended up dumping all its snow on our neighbouring (competing) resort....
As for it being a con, I'm not convinced. It's a pretty basic concept. Basically all they are doing is introducing condensation nuclei into the clouds. The idea is that the nuclei (fine particles) give something for the water vapour to attach to. As more attaches these grow (if the conditions are right) until they are too large and so they fall to earth. If the conditions aren't right it doesn't work. It does work, however the conditions need to be right. Its not like you can make it rain anytime, however, you can increase the chance of precipitation at a certain time and location.
Mar 2nd 2017, 6:45 am
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Re: Depressing weather.!
The thing is with cloud seeding, its not very exact. You can seed a cloud and then the wind direction or the pressure changes and the clouds rise and so the condensation nuclei that have been introduced into the cloud don't promote rain at that location. The cloud then travels and can dump its load elsewhere.
When I worked in a ski resort in Colorado in 2001 our resort (and several others) were seeding clouds. Annoyingly for us, several times we seeded clouds and the wind changed and the cloud ended up dumping all its snow on our neighbouring (competing) resort....
As for it being a con, I'm not convinced. It's a pretty basic concept. Basically all they are doing is introducing condensation nuclei into the clouds. The idea is that the nuclei (fine particles) give something for the water vapour to attach to. As more attaches these grow (if the conditions are right) until they are too large and so they fall to earth. If the conditions aren't right it doesn't work. It does work, however the conditions need to be right. Its not like you can make it rain anytime, however, you can increase the chance of precipitation at a certain time and location.
When I worked in a ski resort in Colorado in 2001 our resort (and several others) were seeding clouds. Annoyingly for us, several times we seeded clouds and the wind changed and the cloud ended up dumping all its snow on our neighbouring (competing) resort....
As for it being a con, I'm not convinced. It's a pretty basic concept. Basically all they are doing is introducing condensation nuclei into the clouds. The idea is that the nuclei (fine particles) give something for the water vapour to attach to. As more attaches these grow (if the conditions are right) until they are too large and so they fall to earth. If the conditions aren't right it doesn't work. It does work, however the conditions need to be right. Its not like you can make it rain anytime, however, you can increase the chance of precipitation at a certain time and location.
Mar 2nd 2017, 8:59 am
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Re: Depressing weather.!
Mar 2nd 2017, 10:04 am
#53
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Re: Depressing weather.!
His whole outfit tho is let down by the fact he isn't wearing a belt. Seriously, that's the worst look ever!
Mar 2nd 2017, 10:17 am
#54
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Re: Depressing weather.!
The thing is with cloud seeding, its not very exact. You can seed a cloud and then the wind direction or the pressure changes and the clouds rise and so the condensation nuclei that have been introduced into the cloud don't promote rain at that location. The cloud then travels and can dump its load elsewhere.
When I worked in a ski resort in Colorado in 2001 our resort (and several others) were seeding clouds. Annoyingly for us, several times we seeded clouds and the wind changed and the cloud ended up dumping all its snow on our neighbouring (competing) resort....
As for it being a con, I'm not convinced. It's a pretty basic concept. Basically all they are doing is introducing condensation nuclei into the clouds. The idea is that the nuclei (fine particles) give something for the water vapour to attach to. As more attaches these grow (if the conditions are right) until they are too large and so they fall to earth. If the conditions aren't right it doesn't work. It does work, however the conditions need to be right. Its not like you can make it rain anytime, however, you can increase the chance of precipitation at a certain time and location.
When I worked in a ski resort in Colorado in 2001 our resort (and several others) were seeding clouds. Annoyingly for us, several times we seeded clouds and the wind changed and the cloud ended up dumping all its snow on our neighbouring (competing) resort....
As for it being a con, I'm not convinced. It's a pretty basic concept. Basically all they are doing is introducing condensation nuclei into the clouds. The idea is that the nuclei (fine particles) give something for the water vapour to attach to. As more attaches these grow (if the conditions are right) until they are too large and so they fall to earth. If the conditions aren't right it doesn't work. It does work, however the conditions need to be right. Its not like you can make it rain anytime, however, you can increase the chance of precipitation at a certain time and location.
Mar 2nd 2017, 10:38 am
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Re: Depressing weather.!
I'm not sure if its still the case but for many years the most powerful computers in the world were weather predicting computers....
