A little bit closer to home:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/6968221.stm

"A theme park has said it is looking at using rain-controlling
techniques to stop bad weather discouraging visitors.

"Staff at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, said they were considering using
the cloud-seeding technique ahead of important public holidays."

Jonathan

Jonathan Stott wrote:
A little bit closer to home:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/6968221.stm

"A theme park has said it is looking at using rain-controlling
techniques to stop bad weather discouraging visitors.

"Staff at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, said they were considering
using the cloud-seeding technique ahead of important public holidays."

Jonathan

Aren't they a little late? (almost 5 months....)

"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
...
A little bit closer to home:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/6968221.stm

"A theme park has said it is looking at using rain-controlling techniques
to stop bad weather discouraging visitors.

"Staff at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, said they were considering using
the cloud-seeding technique ahead of important public holidays."

How is this supposed to work, does it just encourage the rain to
fall somewhere else?
If so, and you were in this 'somewhere else' you might be rather
annoyed to get somebody else's rain!
Conversely, if you lived nearby to Alton Towers and were a
farmer who wanted rain you might also not be happy....

Of course it would take quite a bit of statistical analysis to
ascertain whether the seeding was actually having any effect.

We already appear to be altering the weather unintentionally.
Let's not muck around any more by attempting to do it deliberately.

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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

Col wrote:
"Jonathan Stott" wrote in message
...
A little bit closer to home:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...re/6968221.stm

"A theme park has said it is looking at using rain-controlling techniques
to stop bad weather discouraging visitors.

"Staff at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, said they were considering using
the cloud-seeding technique ahead of important public holidays."

How is this supposed to work, does it just encourage the rain to
fall somewhere else?


Yes, it does.
Read about Chernobyl (-:


If so, and you were in this 'somewhere else' you might be rather
annoyed to get somebody else's rain!
Conversely, if you lived nearby to Alton Towers and were a
farmer who wanted rain you might also not be happy....

Of course it would take quite a bit of statistical analysis to
ascertain whether the seeding was actually having any effect.


It is a common enough practice around the world so I suspect there is more than
enough evidence to support it. I don't think anyone disputes that it works.


We already appear to be altering the weather unintentionally.
Let's not muck around any more by attempting to do it deliberately.


Too late - as I mentioned above, it is standard practice.


--
Gianna

http://www.buchan-meteo.org.uk
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