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Does the State of Texas’ Weather Modification program impact storms in the Gulf?

Asked by SquirrelEStuff (10012points) August 29th, 2021 from iPhone

I hope anyone in the way of the impending storm in Louisiana is safe and out of harms way.

According to the “State of Texas’ website”: https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/weather/weathermod.htm, focused efforts to produce additional rainfall using cloud seeding are widespread in much of West and South Texas during the growing season, which extends from early spring until autumn each year. In fact, areas where cloud seeding is concentrated covers about one-sixth of the land area of Texas. The seeding is done primarily for rainfall enhancement using aircraft and sophisticated weather radar data. Decisions to deploy aircraft and disperse seeding materials (both silver iodide and salts) are made by trained meteorologists licensed by TDLR specifically for weather modification.

Does cloud seeding have any impact on hurricanes that come through the Gulf?

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kritiper's avatar

No, they wouldn’t waste the money on cloud seeding that produced no good for the state. Cloud seeding is usually done to promote rainfall for crops or to eliminate fog around air ports.

seawulf575's avatar

I guess it would depend on how long their “seeds” stay suspended in the air. If you seed an area, does it just stay up there until washed out by rain? Or does it gradually fall to earth? But either way I would say it would have little to no effect on the hurricanes. The winds from the hurricanes would blow away most of the stuff, or at least churn it up so it is not as effective.

elbanditoroso's avatar

If I remember correctly, one of the Texas methods for causing rainfall was to petition God with prayer:

wikipedia.

npr

it wasn’t all that successful back then.

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