Cloud-seeding operations increased to ease drought in the Northeast

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Cloud-seeding operations increased to ease drought in the Northeast

 

 

The Department of Rain-making and Agricultural Aviation has stepped up cloud-seeding efforts to ease drought in Thailand’s northeastern region and to replenish the region’s eight major and 11 medium-sized reservoirs, where water levels have dropped drastically.

 

Mr. Surasee Kittimonthon, the department’s director-general, said Wednesday that rain-making units, based in the northeastern provinces of Surin, Ubon Ratchathani and Nakhon Ratchasima, have been conducting cloud-seeding flights for quite some time now and have succeeded in producing rainfall that has saved rice, tapioca, sugarcane and other crops in a vast tract of dry land in the Northeast.

 

Meanwhile, water levels in the eight major reservoirs, namely Ubonrat, Huay Luang, Lam Nang Rong, Lammoon Chi, Lam Plai Mat, Lam Sae, Lam Pao and Lam Phra Ploeng, have increased slightly, he said, adding that the rain-making effort would continue unabated.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/cloud-seeding-operations-increased-to-ease-drought-in-the-northeast/

 

 

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[Geoffggi]

Nice timing as we have just been informed that heavy natural rainfall is expected......