Cloud seeding is becoming an increasing popular practice in the arid Western region of the
US to meet the growing demand for water.
But how much precipitation does it really produce?
Researchers took to the skies over Western Idaho three different times to seed clouds
by firing flares of silver iodide into them to generate snow.
Using precipitation gauges and specialized radar systems, the results are in!
67 minutes of snow from clouds that otherwise wouldn’t have produced a single flake –
dusting roughly 900 square miles.
Enough water to fill 282 Olympic sized swimming pools.
Next steps: Dig deeper into the data.