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Nevada’s cloud-seeding program shuts down

Posted by: Maven on August 19, 2009 at 6:11 am

From the Tahoe Daily Tribune:

“After more than 30 years of stimulating snowfall in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin, the Nevada Cloud Seeding Program closed for good this month as a result of budget cuts.

“It’s not really good for the ski resorts or anyone worried about water supplies in Lake Tahoe,” said Tom Swafford, principal research technician for the program. “Especially because it’s going to reduce the amount of snow that falls in the Truckee and Tahoe Basin. Anyone who uses water will be impacted.”

The last of 26 small stations stationed on mountaintops in and around Nevada was removed Aug. 7 from Alpine Meadows.

The cloud seeding program was an operation of the Desert Research Institute Division of Atmospheric Sciences and was in effect in Tahoe since the late 1960s. Mountain-top generators or planes would shoot particles of silver iodide into storm clouds to help form ice crystals and encourage snowfall. …”

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August 19, 2009 · Filed Under Storage and supply

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