Calgary hail storm: Cloud seeding credited for sparing city from worse disaster




‘The storm was a monster,’ says weather modification company



By Thandi Fletcher, Calgary Herald August 14, 2012


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As might be expected, in agricultural areas where cloud seeding is used to help increase crop yield and reduce damage from hail, there are large economic benefits. A 2009 study of the North Dakota Cloud Modification Project found that cloud seeding operations that increased rainfall by 5 percent yield $8.4 million dollars per year, while that amount is nearly doubled to $16 million for a 10 percent increase in rainfall. This does not include the money saved from hail suppression, which is estimated to be $3.7 million per year.

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