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“Coaxed” Snowfall Does Little to Quench Drought

Global Times describes the means by which the snowfall was enticed, as well as its side effects: Weather modification staff worked at 33 locations through the night. By 6 am Thursday, 759 silver iodide rods had been burned in portable furnaces placed high in the city’s surrounding mountains in order to increase chances of snowfall, according to the Weather Modification Office of the municipa