You know, there was an awful lot of cloud seeding, that was done by various Water Boards, throughout the drought stricken West, right up through December.
I'm not adequately knowledgeable about cloud seeding procedures, the mechanisms, what makes it all work to be successful. Hence, I wonder.
My hunting partner's son is a meteorologist. He works for a private weather consulting firm in Salt Lake. In the winter, much of his work is cloud seeding. They use some kind of canons that shoot tiny particles of silver iodide (several other chemicals are also used) in the air. It draws water out of the clouds and ice crystals form on the particles. When they get heavy enough, they fall as snow. The humidity and temperature have to be just right for it to work. He constantly studies weather patterns to choose the right conditions. I don't think they've had a lot of business this winter.
