The most interesting thing I learned this week
Featuring flamingos, cloud seeding, and "we don't do that here."
🦩 The collective noun for a group of flamingos is flamboyance.
👎🏻 The simple power of “we don’t do that here.”
⛈ Science can’t make it rain, but it can make it rain a little more. Cloud seeding is a weather modification technique that aims to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds by dispersing substances into the air that mimic the properties of condensation and alter the microphysical processes within clouds. This technique was developed in the 1940s and today is used in places like Texas and Saudi Arabia. Ahead of big events, China even uses the technique as a kind of rain deterrence by seeding clouds outside of cities in hopes of causing them to release their rain before reaching the festivities.