The United Arab Emirates is creating its own rain using drones that fly into clouds and unleash electrical charges to beat the sweltering 122 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius) heat. Cloud seeding can also, in some cases, cause the cloud to grow larger and last longer than it would have without the modification. This involved firing rockets packed with silver iodide crystals into rain clouds over the suburbs of Beijing. The former USSR also apparently used cloud seeding to prevent radioactive fallout fromChernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 from reaching Moscow. Rain triggered through cloud seeding is much cheaper than desalinated water, according to Omar al-Yazeedi, head of research at NCMS.

Source: Daily Mail July 21, 2021 08:39 UTC