Weather Modification

Colorado is permitting a Florida-based company to deploy warm-weather cloud seeding in Weld County. It's an attempt to make more rain fall on farm fields.

Cloud seeding isn’t a magic wildfire fix — it needs existing clouds, offers minimal rain increase, and can be risky during active fires.

Each winter, anxious water managers, farmers and city leaders in the American Southwest turn their eyes toward the snowy peaks of the southern Rocky...