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China creates rain! Maybe some of these weather
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myths are true:
China makes artificial rain to rinse grime from Beijing
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING, May 5 - Chinese weather specialists used chemicals to engineer Beijing's heaviest rainfall of the year, helping to relieve drought and rinse dust from China's capital, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.
Technicians with the Beijing Weather Modification Office fired seven rocket shells containing 163 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide over the city's skies on Thursday, Xinhua said.
The reaction that occurred brought as much as four-tenths of an inch of rain, the heaviest rainfall this year, helping to ''alleviate drought, add soil moisture and remove dust from the air for better air quality,'' Xinhua said.
Though unusual in many parts of the world, China has been tinkering with artificial rainmaking for decades, using it frequently in the drought-plagued north. Last month, another artificial rainfall was generated to clear Beijing after the city suffered some of the fiercest dust storms this decade.
Whether cloud-seeding actually works has been the subject of debate in the scientific community. In 2003, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences questioned the science behind it as ''too weak.''
China makes artificial rain to rinse grime from Beijing
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING, May 5 - Chinese weather specialists used chemicals to engineer Beijing's heaviest rainfall of the year, helping to relieve drought and rinse dust from China's capital, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.
Technicians with the Beijing Weather Modification Office fired seven rocket shells containing 163 cigarette-size sticks of silver iodide over the city's skies on Thursday, Xinhua said.
The reaction that occurred brought as much as four-tenths of an inch of rain, the heaviest rainfall this year, helping to ''alleviate drought, add soil moisture and remove dust from the air for better air quality,'' Xinhua said.
Though unusual in many parts of the world, China has been tinkering with artificial rainmaking for decades, using it frequently in the drought-plagued north. Last month, another artificial rainfall was generated to clear Beijing after the city suffered some of the fiercest dust storms this decade.
Whether cloud-seeding actually works has been the subject of debate in the scientific community. In 2003, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences questioned the science behind it as ''too weak.''
Comments
What were the rockets powered with..... sweet and sour chicken sauce? [:D][:D][:D]
Actually... Chicken Chow Mein..
Oh, and it's nothing new that it's possible to make rain.
It's been around for ages..
4 tenths of an inch isn't snit around here.[}:)]
It's enough to make you Moderator in Texas.
[:D]barto[:D]