Special rainmaking unit to be set up to alleviate drought in Buri Ram

[snoop1130]

Special rainmaking unit to be set up to alleviate drought in Buri Ram

By The Nation

 

 

The northern operation office of the Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation Department will set up an operation unit in Buri Ram to seed clouds to alleviate drought in the province.

 

Nopparat Pongkittichote, chief agricultural officer for Buri Ram, said the special rainmaking unit will be based at the Buri Ram Airport in Satuek district on Thursday.

 

The department will deploy two planes at the airport for operations to attack cloud with chemicals to make rains that would replenish reservoirs and creeks so that there would be enough raw water for making tap water during the dry season, he added.

 

He said on-going drought in several districts of Buri Ram prompted the provincial governor to seek help from the Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation Department for special rainmaking operation.

 

Nopparat expressed confidence that the cloud seeding would bring enough rains to alleviate drought in the province.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30365304

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-03-06

[khwaibah]

What a joke and wast of time and money but then again look at all the time and money being spent on bullet trains to no where. ????BTW they need to check Korat, Surin and Roi Et. ????

Edited March 6, 2019 by khwaibah

[taichiplanet]

14 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

for operations to attack cloud with chemicals

those dastardly clouds, withholding rain that belongs to us.

 

Drove through Satuek a week ago and was surprised that a lot of farmers along the river were growing a second crop of rice. Obviously someone told them that there was no drought. ????

[DNPBC0]

The truly sad thing about this rain-making nonsense is that many Thai people believe it works.

 

[grumbleweed]

The lunatics have taken over the asylum

A new national anthem?

[Ossy]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Special rainmaking unit

Just get Prayuth to give you one of his loving smiles. Ugh! . . . that 'd make it rain.

[Ossy]

13 hours ago, khwaibah said:

What a joke and wast of time and money but then again look at all the time and money being spent on bullet trains to no where. ????BTW they need to check Korat, Surin and Roi Et. ????

Check? For what . . . rain or trains?

[Grusa]

[DrTuner]

Great, now the only thing they need is clouds. They could try to fake it with smoke by burning a few zillion hectares of sugar cane.

[sammieuk1]

Seeding the smog could result in gassing us all surely????

[Creasy]

Doesn't the Frog Whisperer control the weather ?

 

He diverted a cyclone not long ago so some rain for the farmers should be easy for him.

 

 

[Dumbastheycome]

15 hours ago, DNPBC0 said:

The truly sad thing about this rain-making nonsense is that many Thai people believe it works.

 

It does work. It does depend on specific atmospheric conditions to be present.

[SABloke]

9 minutes ago, Dumbastheycome said:

It does work. It does depend on specific atmospheric conditions to be present.

I've heard it's especially effective on rainy days...

[ratcatcher]

16 hours ago, taichiplanet said:

those dastardly clouds, withholding rain that belongs to us.

 

Drove through Satuek a week ago and was surprised that a lot of farmers along the river were growing a second crop of rice. Obviously someone told them that there was no drought. ????

I guess they were possibly drawing water from the Mun river? If so, good luck to them, as the water is not being wasted but merely recycled back into the river by seepage and the atmosphere via evaporation. After all, the Mun eventually drains into the Mekong river.

The government will illustrate their real concerns about water usage and wastage in about 5 weeks time when the annual Songkran celebrations break out

[bluebluewater]

Cloud seeding efforts are made when it is probably going to rain and then when it does . . . Ta Da!  Yep, we did that. 

[Eric Loh]

"รูปภาพสำหรับ Prayut boast that he prevented flood in south"

 

The great man repertoire may include sermoning rain. 

[connda]

They should contract this out to experts in the field.

[gk10002000]

There is plenty of rain in Thailand for everybody.  The trick is to store it, transport it, and use it properly.  It appears that the massive deforestation that has happened in the last few decades has rapidly increased the water runoff.  The vegetation used to act like a brake, and absorb and slow down the water runoff.

[sawadee1947]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Nopparat expressed confidence

Again:

Thailand the hub of nonsense and superstition 

[CGW]

59 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

It appears that the massive deforestation that has happened in the last few decades has rapidly increased the water runoff. 

Where has the massive deforestation occurred in the last few decades, I'm not seeing it? There was massive deforestation in the 70s & 80s but a lot of that has been replanted which is why you don't see that many mature trees in the North.

[billd766]

18 hours ago, DNPBC0 said:

The truly sad thing about this rain-making nonsense is that many Thai people believe it works.

 

The truly sad thing about your comment is the nonsense that you posted it in the first place.

 

Did you do any research on rain-making before you posted it?

 

https://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/why-cloud-seeding-to-create-artificial-rain-has-been-delayed-in-delhi/story/292925.html

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/south-korea-plans-artificial-rain-reduce-seoul-air-pollution-190306095309023.html

 

https://techsauce.co/en/tech-and-biz/royal-rainmaking-project-king-bhumibol-adulyadej-flies-end-jordan-drought/

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

 

Try reading the links showing how many countries actually do use the rain making projects. They can't all be wrong.

[Srikcir]

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Buri Ram to seed clouds to alleviate drought

Seems to be an annual event.

February 19, 2017:

• Northeastern Buriram province has started facing a drought as the water level of the Moon River is dropping very quickly with the river bed visible at some points.
• Farmers of ten villages in Satuek district have had to stop drawing the river water for their second crop because doing so would mean residents would not have enough tap water this dry season.
• Meanwhile NNT said yesterday that the Royal Irrigation Department is getting ready to carry out a new round of artificial rainmaking to fill all dams with water.

http://thairesidents.com/local/drought-hits-parts-buriram/

Instead of repeating (questionable at best) rainmaking missions, why not find a permanent solution that has less risk of failure than aerial rainmaking that has a 50-50 chance (according to scientific studies) of producing substantial rain for a specific target area?

Edited March 7, 2019 by Srikcir
indents

[bluebluewater]

31 minutes ago, billd766 said:

The truly sad thing about your comment is the nonsense that you posted it in the first place.

 

Did you do any research on rain-making before you posted it?

 

https://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/why-cloud-seeding-to-create-artificial-rain-has-been-delayed-in-delhi/story/292925.html

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/south-korea-plans-artificial-rain-reduce-seoul-air-pollution-190306095309023.html

 

https://techsauce.co/en/tech-and-biz/royal-rainmaking-project-king-bhumibol-adulyadej-flies-end-jordan-drought/

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

 

Try reading the links showing how many countries actually do use the rain making projects. They can't all be wrong.

And all your "nonsense" does not add a thing.  Just because countries attempt these efforts does not make it happen.  Did you actually read your own Wiki reference under the heading of Effectiveness??

[JAG]

 

 

 

2 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

 

The government will illustrate their real concerns about water usage and wastage in about 5 weeks time when the annual Songkran celebrations break out

I doubt it, all available stern-faced bemedalled paragons of uniformed virtue will be deployed to lecture us against the perils of spaghetti tops, wet tee shirts and excessive twerking, the campaign will climax with an often repeated warning about the cathartic apocalypse which could result from combining any two of those three phenomena. No time, resources or interest available to worry about drought!

[billd766]

18 minutes ago, bluebluewater said:

And all your "nonsense" does not add a thing.  Just because countries attempt these efforts does not make it happen.  Did you actually read your own Wiki reference under the heading of Effectiveness??

Did you do any research in the first place?

[seahorse]

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

The truly sad thing about your comment is the nonsense that you posted it in the first place.

 

Did you do any research on rain-making before you posted it?

 

https://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/why-cloud-seeding-to-create-artificial-rain-has-been-delayed-in-delhi/story/292925.html

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/south-korea-plans-artificial-rain-reduce-seoul-air-pollution-190306095309023.html

 

https://techsauce.co/en/tech-and-biz/royal-rainmaking-project-king-bhumibol-adulyadej-flies-end-jordan-drought/

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

 

Try reading the links showing how many countries actually do use the rain making projects. They can't all be wrong.

To quote your Wikipedia link.

'A study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences failed to find statistically significant support for the effectiveness of cloud seeding. Based on the report's findings, Stanford University ecologist Rob Jackson said: "I think you can squeeze out a little more snow or rain in some places under some conditions, but that's quite different from a program claiming to reliably increase precipitation."'

 

 

Many countries have Sharia Law. Are they all correct? 

[DrTuner]

2 hours ago, gk10002000 said:

There is plenty of rain in Thailand for everybody.  The trick is to store it, transport it, and use it properly. 

Ha, idea! Have songkran 24/7/365 but with a caveat: Everybody must fill their guns at the reservoir which is fullest. Thais would drive 1000km to get their guns filled, no ploplem!

Edited March 7, 2019 by DrTuner

[Dumbastheycome]

7 hours ago, SABloke said:

I've heard it's especially effective on rainy days...

Enjoy the appeal of  cynical ignorance of  fact if thats what  makes you happy.

Only slightly removed  from the environs of those that pretend  blissful existence either on  sunny beaches  or in air conditioned vertical stacks of  coffins there are those who depend on rain to both  make ends  meet  in life and  feed the ignorant whose lives and incomes would not be  possible without.

The urban myth is that food comes from a  supermarket.

[CeeGee]

Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation Department   Slightly off topic but exactly how many Government Departments are there.It seems that almost anything you can think of has a Government Department and any time there is a problem, there is always a Government department who are "looking into it" no matter how small or obscure it is.

[SABloke]

1 hour ago, Dumbastheycome said:

Enjoy the appeal of  cynical ignorance of  fact if thats what  makes you happy.

Only slightly removed  from the environs of those that pretend  blissful existence either on  sunny beaches  or in air conditioned vertical stacks of  coffins there are those who depend on rain to both  make ends  meet  in life and  feed the ignorant whose lives and incomes would not be  possible without.

The urban myth is that food comes from a  supermarket.

You must be a barrel of laughs at a party. I never disputed that cloud seeking works, and I know it's bee around for a long time and can be effective when atmospheric conditions allow. However, sometimes it's fun to make a joke.