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.”…