
In an effort to create rain, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said that weather bureaus in the affected regions are ready to "bomb clouds" with 2,116 doses of silver iodide, a compound used in cloud seeding, for which 2 million yuan ($294,000) has been allocated.
I wonder if Vegas is giving odds on the exercise's success. China has tried this type of thing in the past, and ended up blanketing Beijing with a lot of snow (see: China's Weather Modification Office Pilloried for Causing Heavy Snowfall in Beijing!).
Source: China Daily
No comments:
Post a Comment