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Interesting article in today’s telegraph re cloud seeding.
Apparently they went too far in UAE.
No, that is very unlikely. Cloud seeding is done by adding small particles of salts (eg silver iodide) to clouds which are not about to cause precipitation, so that water condenses on the particles and can form droplets big enough to fall. It has been used for some time in areas where there is not enough water in an attempt to get the water which is available in clouds to fall where it is wanted.
The rain which was so heavy in the UAE was from clouds which were already full of water in a condition to fall, so there would have been no point in seeding them. Climate change causes the air to become warmer, and the warmer the air, the more water it can hold, so that when it does fall as rain, there is more of it. We have the same thing happening here, as rain showers are likely to be more intense than they were.
There is an interesting Explainer article about it in the Guardian, from which I got some of this.
