Low Pan
29th April 2011, 02:38 PM
watch out TX, going to be plenty of chemtrails coming to you:
http://www.kvue.com/home/Could-cloud-seeding-bring-more-rain-to-Central-Texas-120748479.html
by JIM BERGAMO / KVUE News
Bio | Email | Follow: @JimB_KVUE
kvue.com
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 9:14 PM
Updated Tuesday, Apr 26 at 10:29 PM
Central Texans certainly have seen their fair share of storms over the years, but recently it's the lack of rain that's made headlines. Our extreme drought has some wondering if cloud seeding is the answer.
"It's intended to accelerate and prolong the production of rainfall out of young thunderstorms," said George Bomar, a meteorologist and Manager of the State Weather Modification Program.
Here's how cloud seeding works. An airplane, flying at about 7,000 feet with flares attached to the wings, disperses silver iodide into a cloud.
"The silver iodide becomes ice, and in the process attracts cloud vapor forming a snowflake," said Bomar. "Then when the flake becomes big enough and heavy enough it begins to fall through the cloud. It gets into air warmer than freezing and melts into a rain drop."
But does it work? Bomar, says 35 years of research data doesn't lie.
"It will produce 2.3 times as much rainwater as an unseeded cloud, more than double," said Bomar.
"We haven't really had a big, big rain here in Central Texas since last fall," said KVUE Chief Meteorologist Mark Murray. "We've now slipped back into extreme and exceptional drought conditions, so I'm sure people are looking to cloud seeding to try and help squeeze whatever moisture we can from those clouds."
So why aren't cloud seeding planes flying over Central Texas right now?
"Cloud seeding is not a cure-all for drought," said Bomar.
"For cloud seeding to work, you have got to have clouds and you have got to have moisture. You can't create rain from blue skies," said Murray.
Bomar says the next six-to -ight weeks are still a prime opportunity for successful cloud seedings.
By the way, the state actually funded the weather modification program until the 2003 budget shortfall. Now, the water conservation districts foot the bill.
http://www.kvue.com/home/Could-cloud-seeding-bring-more-rain-to-Central-Texas-120748479.html
by JIM BERGAMO / KVUE News
Bio | Email | Follow: @JimB_KVUE
kvue.com
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 9:14 PM
Updated Tuesday, Apr 26 at 10:29 PM
Central Texans certainly have seen their fair share of storms over the years, but recently it's the lack of rain that's made headlines. Our extreme drought has some wondering if cloud seeding is the answer.
"It's intended to accelerate and prolong the production of rainfall out of young thunderstorms," said George Bomar, a meteorologist and Manager of the State Weather Modification Program.
Here's how cloud seeding works. An airplane, flying at about 7,000 feet with flares attached to the wings, disperses silver iodide into a cloud.
"The silver iodide becomes ice, and in the process attracts cloud vapor forming a snowflake," said Bomar. "Then when the flake becomes big enough and heavy enough it begins to fall through the cloud. It gets into air warmer than freezing and melts into a rain drop."
But does it work? Bomar, says 35 years of research data doesn't lie.
"It will produce 2.3 times as much rainwater as an unseeded cloud, more than double," said Bomar.
"We haven't really had a big, big rain here in Central Texas since last fall," said KVUE Chief Meteorologist Mark Murray. "We've now slipped back into extreme and exceptional drought conditions, so I'm sure people are looking to cloud seeding to try and help squeeze whatever moisture we can from those clouds."
So why aren't cloud seeding planes flying over Central Texas right now?
"Cloud seeding is not a cure-all for drought," said Bomar.
"For cloud seeding to work, you have got to have clouds and you have got to have moisture. You can't create rain from blue skies," said Murray.
Bomar says the next six-to -ight weeks are still a prime opportunity for successful cloud seedings.
By the way, the state actually funded the weather modification program until the 2003 budget shortfall. Now, the water conservation districts foot the bill.