Cloud seeding is a weather technique used to get more precipitation out of existing clouds. How do clouds form? To explain ...

Many people are talking about cloud seeding after the deadly flooding in the Texas Hill Country. FOX 7 meteorologist Adaleigh Rowe breaks down what cloud seeding is and what it does.

Cloud seeding gives these clouds a lot more ice crystals (or cloud nuclei). If experts complete seeding at the right time, it leads to more moisture supply, which will eventually create rainwater.

Cloud seeding experiments typically deal with a narrow set of parameters, according to Swain, taking into account weather conditions including cloud cover, time of the day, and location.

A firefighting helicopter drops water on the Palisades fire near Mandeville Canyon and Encino, California, on January 11, 2025. Inset, Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks in September 2024.

Cloud seeding is a form of planned weather modification. Most commonly used to increase precipitation as a drought management technique, cloud seeding is also regularly used to clear fog in airports, ...

Cloud seeding has been practiced for decades and has many different techniques and applications. It's used to alleviate fog at airports, reduce the size of hail, and increase rain or snowfall.

Cloud seeding in the U.S. got "oversold" and federal funding dried up in the 1990s and early 2000s, said Frank McDonough, a scientist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.

Cloud-seeding programs to boost both rain and snowfall are now under way in Texas, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico and California. For West Texas farmer Steve Williams, the benefits of ...

Mexico contends that its current cloud seeding project, which it has been running since December 2020, has had a positive impact. In 2021, the cloud seeding flights had created 40% more rain, the ...

Cloud seeding has become a hot topic for debate, but it's actually a technique we first discovered in the 1940s. Here's what you need to know about it.

Officials in Indonesia began cloud seeding in May with the hopes of generating enough rain to limit the damage caused by annual forest fires through September. In 2019, fires due to dry weather ...