Wyoming Launches Cloud-Seeding Project

Wyoming is embarking on an $8.8 million, five-year cloud-seeding project that aims to bolster mountain snowpack, and possibly yield proof of whether cloud seeding actually works.

"Hopefully in Wyoming, we'll find evidence for that to be a viable tool in water resource management," said Dan Breed, project scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a federally funded research center based in Boulder, Colo.

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"In a lot of the other programs, the evaluation part has been more ad hoc or not planned into it," Breed said. In addition, he said, the Wyoming project will last for five years, while most others are conducted year to year.

"The Wyoming program is very unique with the amount of science that's being employed," said project manager Barry Lawrence of the Wyoming Water Development Commission. "The scientists are involved throughout the process."




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G'Head. The first one will be called Barbara. Followed by Cheney then Denny.

perhaps.... hmmmmmm.

...in Nebraska and S. Dakota: Forcibly sucking the air dry before it gets to them...

The water issue is going to get real ugly west of the Mississippi.

Weather systems move east to west in the tropics, then then get a kick north. Moist air from the sea gets pushed to the west and up in altitude as it moves across those plains states. The highest points in Kansas and Nebraska are 4000 and 5400 feet in altitude. The increasing altitude causes the air to become thinner, making it 100% saturated and it rains.