Brief by Central Staff
Weather – November 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Does cloud-seeding really work? Or would any extra snowfall have happened anyway?
Last winter, as Colorado struggled with a drought, cloud-seeders were set up in the mountains. They have chimneys that shoot silver-iodide particles upward, into the clouds. In theory, the small particles provide a place for water molecules to coalesce into snowflakes, which then fall.
