Colorado trials warm-weather cloud seeding to combat drought

A technology to increase rainfall is coming to Colorado for the first time.

A Florida-based company is setting up cloud seeding equipment to add water to some fields in Weld County. The company behind the project — and the state agency that permits it — hope that this rollout of what’s known as warm-weather cloud seeding is the beginning of a larger trend.

Andrew Rickert, weather modification program manager with the Colorado Water Conservation Board, called this cloud seeding project a “trial run.”…

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