Engineering Snowfall: How Rainmaker’s Drones Help Shore Up Water Supplies While Maximizing Ski Resort Snow Rainmaker is a company that increases snowpack by utilizing cloud seeding and operates over the course of the winter to increase snowfall by about 10-20%. This fall, Rainmaker will commence the largest American cloud seeding program in modern history. Its operations in the Bear River Basin, the largest watershed feeding the Great Salt Lake, will increase water supply and support drought resilience in […] Brains Gregg Frantz | November 6, 2025 0 Comments
Utah Has the Largest Remote Cloud Seeding Program in the World Utah’s Department of Natural Resources (Utah DNR) operates 190 remotely operated generators, making it the largest remote-controlled cloud seeding program in the world. This year, the Utah State Legislature increased its cloud seeding budget from $200,000 in 2022 to $16 million to increase its snowpack during the winter and help mitigate the impacts of droughts. Utah’s snowpack is the largest contributor […] Brains Gregg Frantz | October 29, 2025 0 Comments
$2.4 Million Federal Grant for Cloud Seeding in the Upper Colorado River Basin Last week, The Southern Nevada Water Authority voted to accept a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to fund cloud seeding in Western states whose rivers feed the Upper Colorado River Basin. The weather modification method utilizes planes and cannons to launch silver iodide crystals into clouds. This process attracts moisture to the particles that fall as snow […] Industry News Luke Guilford | March 20, 2023 1 Comment
Cloud Seeding: The Future of Drought Management? The Western US is in a severe drought, with many areas experiencing drought-like conditions since the early 2000s. While lots of energy is spent debating what is causing these conditions (human-induced climate change vs. natural climate variations), not as much energy is spent attempting to generate and implement solutions to reverse these drought conditions. This is not good since the threat […] Brains Clay Malott | September 3, 2021 0 Comments
How COVID-19 May Lead to Less Powder for Vail Mountain, CO Although one may say that humans cannot control Mother Nature, Vail Ski Resort in Colorado may have come as close as you get for the past forty years. For the first time in 44 years, Vail has stopped providing funds to cloud seeding programs in the area, which could significantly affect skiers and riders alike. Due to additional covid-19 expenditures, […] Industry News Liam Abbott | December 10, 2020 2 Comments
Russia Using Cloud Seeding to Create Artificial Rain to Fight Fires According to the Russian Federal Agency for Forestry, they are using cloud seeding to create rain to help fight fires in the Siberia region of Eastern Russia. Related: Cloud Seeding | What is It, How Does It Work, and Does It Make a Difference? As of Friday, July 10, there were 158 forest fires covering 46,261 hectares (about 180 square […] Fire Clay Malott | July 14, 2020 0 Comments
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