Colorado has been using cloud seeding as far back as the 1950s, but an all-new weather modification project in Colorado is taking shape on the Eastern Plains. Located in Gill, in Weld County, it’s not the kind of cloud seeding most people picture. There’s no plane and no silver iodide flare.
Rain Enhancement Technologies is using a ground-based system called WETA, which is short for weather enhancement technology array.
“What problem for Coloradans are you trying to solve?” CBS Colorado asked Rain Enhancement Technologies CEO Randy Seidl.
“One that’s probably top of mind for everybody, which is just the tremendous water shortage,” Seidl said. “Traditionally, cloud seeding that happens during the winter time. This was obviously a lousy snow year, so there’s not enough water for spring, summer, fall. And that’s where we come in.”…