Cloud Seeding

For about two decades, Idaho has been changing the weather through a process called cloud seeding. It gives clouds a boost to produce more precipitation like snow.

Silver iodide has been the dominant ingredient for cloud seeding in the West, but it doesn't work so well in warm temperatures.

Idaho water managers say they will step up funding for a cloud seeding program that's already been credited with increasing the state's mountain…

The snowpack in the Mountain West is at just a small fraction of its normal level, and it was the driest year ever recorded in many parts of California. Cloud seeders are trying to squeeze raindrops out of Mother Nature by spraying tiny silver iodide particles into incoming clouds.

Cloud seeding has been around for decades. It started out as a way to make rain for growing crops. But in the Mountain West, it’s used these days as a way…