cloud seeding

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Basic weather control is possible today: China has long been using cloud seeding to create blue skies over Beijing for important events, by making impending rain fall before it reaches the city.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Iranian authorities have carried out several cloud seeding operations to induce rainfall in recent months and resorted to cutting off water supplies periodically to manage consumption.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

The U.S. military used cloud seeding during the Vietnam War in a classified project called Operation Popeye, to try to gain an advantage by extending the monsoon season, according to the State Department.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Also at the party were six high-school girls from an FFA agricultural program in Tahoka, Texas, who flew in to perform a skit they wrote about cloud seeding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Ultimately, when lawmakers advanced the bill, cloud seeding was spared from the ban, which would prohibit dispersing chemicals to alter the temperature, weather or “the intensity of the sunlight.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025