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Recently, China and Middle East countries plan to lead the effort to seed clouds and increase precipitation.
Key Points:
About Cloud Seeding:
- Cloud seeding is an artificial way of inducing moisture in the clouds to cause rainfall.
- Only certain kind of clouds can be seeded and it needs to have enough nuclei to process cloud seeding and thunder cloud development.
- It uses silver iodide and dry ice to improve the creation of ice crystals in clouds.
- It involves using aircraft or drones to add small particles of silver iodide.
Benefits of Cloud Seeding:
- Create more winter snowfall
- Enhance the natural water supply to communities
- Lessen hailstorms by reordering water vapor in clouds, which breaks down large hailstones
