Maharashtra Government approves cloud seeding project for 2017 monsoon Maharashtra Government has approved INR. 250 crore Cloud Seeding Programme during 2017 monsoon season to produce sufficient rain.
Under this programme, weather scientists using aircrafts will spray chemicals (silver iodide) over clouds hovering above Solapur district, a rain shadow region of Western Ghats in the state.
This will be the first controlled experiment to quantify the extent to which clouds form water drops large enough to make rain.
This programme, coordinated by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, will be the first controlled experiment to quantify the extent to which clouds form water drops large enough to make rain.
In this experiment, scientists will fly two aircraft and spray silver iodide and dry ice on 100 clouds and compare them with 100 unseeded clouds.
Ground radar will be used to track the clouds and verify which ones contributed rain.
Solapur: Know More- Solapur is a city located in the south-eastern region of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
- Solapur is located on major road and rail routes between Mumbai and Hyderabad.
- Area: 148.9 km²
- Weather: 27°C, Wind N at 2 km/h, 29% Humidity
- Population: 872,478 (2001) (UN)
