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USA Today: Meet Weather Modification Inc.
Source: USA Today - Maria Sudekum Fisher, Associated Press Writer
LAKIN, Kan. — Water is prized in western Kansas, where aquifers are suffering and farms are miles wide and generations deep; a scant half inch of rain can mean the difference between a successful season and a failed one.
But when it comes in the form of fist-sized balls of ice known as hail, water's more than a menace. It can damage and even destroy crops.
That's where the Western Kansas Weather Modification Program and other cloud-seeding operations across the western U.S. come in. The WKWMP is among about 10 programs that tinker with the weather — either by trying to cut the size of hail or boost rainfall and snowpack. They do it largely by shooting up storm clouds with silver iodide or dry ice mixtures.
Other countries also have used or considered using weather modification. The United Arab Emirates has investigated cloud seeding to help increase rainfall. China has announced plans to use cloud seeding to manage rainfall during the 2008 Olympics, and Indonesia has used it to try to fight fires.
Cloud seeding has a host of critics, from those who say there is no good science to support claims that it works to others who raise concerns about the possibility that it actually may cause less rain and harm the environment.
But as water supplies show signs of stress around the globe and insurance companies add up hail damage payouts, weather modification programs persist.
"What's beginning to happen is that worldwide, people are realizing that water, especially fresh water, is a very precious resource, and we need to do what we can to increase the availability of that resource," said Bruce Boe, director of meteorology for Weather Modification Inc., a Fargo, N.D.,-based company that has been seeding clouds since the 1960s. Weather Modification Inc. has contracts in the U.S., Africa, southeast Asia and Canada, where Weather Modification Inc. does business with insurance companies.
"They'll say, 'We paid out $500, $600 million in claims on hail damage, and the forecast is for more hail storms, so we want you to come in for a couple million dollars and take care of the hail,"' Boe said.
Cloud seeding was developed after World War II to try to increase rainfall. The theory is that the silver iodide, which has a structure that resembles ice, creates raindrops in the clouds, increasing precipitation and reducing moisture for hail formation.
In the U.S., weather modification programs are largely run by individual states and counties. But a measure before the U.S. Senate would allocate $10 million a year to establish the Weather Mitigation Advisory and Research Board, which would develop policy and research weather modification programs.
Kansas started its program in 1975. The Western Kansas Weather Modification Program now covers about 8,000 miles and is used about 85% of the time for hail reduction. The program, which receives state and local funding, was briefly extended into northwest Kansas in the late 1990s. But residents became concerned that cloud seeding may have been reducing their rainfall amounts and voted the program out.
The WKWMP operates from April through September with four planes. Program manager Walt Geiger monitors the weather from a radar station at the tiny Kearny County airport in Lakin. When he sees a storm developing, one with "lots of strong vertical action" that could be a hail producer, Geiger notifies the pilots, who then head into the storms in their single-engine planes, armed with nerves and bayonet-sized canisters of silver iodide.
A 1998-1999 study of the WKWMP found that while there was a statistically significant reduction in hail that year, there was no evidence to support the program's attempts to increase rainfall.
The science behind cloud seeding, while "excellent at the microscopic level," doesn't translate too well outside the lab, says Terry Kastens, professor of agriculture economy at Kansas State University, which conducted the study.
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watchmanoftruth 4 weeks ago
I was wondering why you have Jesse Woodrow in your tags?
watchmanoftruth 4 weeks ago
@techstud702 YOU HAVE JUST TO WATCH THE SKY to see the difference between chemtrails and contrails but it's better to keep your head under the sand it's so easier and it makes you feel better and secure Those who talked about concentration camps in world war II were call conspiracy theorist too think about it !! it' so easy to labeled people who ask questions,but only intelligent people ask questions and don' t buy stupid answers, think by yourself PLEASE
dumdum5 1 month ago
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MagAongas72 1 month ago
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DangerousDan77777 1 month ago
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DangerousDan77777 1 month ago
They're called contrails, chemtrails don't exist. This is complete conspiracy theory hogwash. Contrails have existed since airplanes started cruising above 20,000 feet. You can even see them in old WWII bomber footage. Google "Chemtrail conspiracy theory wiki", educate yourselves and please stop the hysteria. Like spraying all the skies wouldn't effect the supposed nefarious people behind this including their extended familes and friends. Use your brains people, please...
techstud702 3 months ago
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kirkmbutterfield 4 months ago
Bravo to this man exposing Aircraft dealer: Weather Modification Inc.-now what is the Dept of Justice going to do about it? The County.Insurance Cos.complicit! Are we a nation of laws/not? I was reminded as to when I was given addresses to which buildings were built using my community property money by REIT hubby & attorneys were defrauding me in a divorce(still are). I drove up to one address in Scottsdale Airpark & peaked into the window of a huge AT&T building!
HRSiegal(not dead,defrauded )
HoneySiegalSurvivor 4 months ago