KARACHI:
Cloud seeding or ‘artificial rain’ has been deemed a non-viable solution by experts, to the extremely hot weather which is being experienced in the city.
Cloud seeding, which is a form of weather modification, is the attempt to change the type of precipitation that falls from the clouds, by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, which alter the microphysical processes within the cloud.
“You need to have big clouds with heavy moisture content to make cloud seeding successful, which we currently don’t have. And, as temperature is likely to come down in the coming days, it makes little sense to use this technique for lowering temperatures at that time,” said former chief meteorologist of Sindh-Balochistan region Tausif Alam.