China's artificially-induced snow

[SmokyOneKenobi]

This amazes me.  Just think of the implications of being able to create your own weather.  This is another real "sci-fi" story for my fellow geeks:

"Hebei got its first heavy snow of this year yesterday. The provincial weather bureau said that snow too was "enhanced" by artificial seeding.

"The snow has brought moisture to the soil, which may help end the drought," Guo Yingchun, a senior engineer of the provincial meteorological observatory, was quoted as saying.

She said that 313 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide were fired into the clouds from (last) night to (this) morning, "a procedure that made the snow a lot heavier."

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25081579-13762,00.html

[Admin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

Lets set these systems up all over the north and south pole to make SNOW!   Global warming SOLVED.   lol!

[Tonto]

This amazes me.  Just think of the implications of being able to create your own weather.  This is another real "sci-fi" story for my fellow geeks:

"Hebei got its first heavy snow of this year yesterday. The provincial weather bureau said that snow too was "enhanced" by artificial seeding.

"The snow has brought moisture to the soil, which may help end the drought," Guo Yingchun, a senior engineer of the provincial meteorological observatory, was quoted as saying.

She said that 313 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide were fired into the clouds from (last) night to (this) morning, "a procedure that made the snow a lot heavier."

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25081579-13762,00.html

Yum.....I love silver iodide flavored flench flies!