In a major development, China’s State Council has revealed
stunning breakthroughs in research and the latest technologies pertaining to
weather programs. According to a report, China will get an advanced weather
modification system by the year 2025.
The report claims that the entire area of artificial rainfall is
expected to cover over 5.5 million square kilometres. Meanwhile, the area of
hail suppression will include approximately 5,80,000 square kilometres that
will be more than Victoria.
According to a
statement released, there will be strong development in vital technologies, a gradual
progress in modernization, refined services, and strong prevention against
safety risks.
The weather
modification will help the country’s agricultural production and protect the
ecologically endangered areas, added the State Council. Also, the program will
help in controlling natural calamities like drought, fires, extreme
temperatures, and hail among others.
Earlier, China
tried to control the weather in a bid to save the farming areas and to
guarantee clear skies during crucial events.
Previously,
China seeded clouds prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics with the aim to bring
down smog and get rid of the possibilities of rain. Also, the vital political
meetings that took place in the Chinese capital are infamous for enjoying
stunning clear skies as a result of the weather modification and closure of
surrounding factories.
It is worth
mentioning that cloud seeding has been there in existence in China for over 10
years. It functions by injecting a little amount of silver iodide into clouds
with plenty of moisture which subsequently condenses around the new particles.
It leads them to become heavier and ultimately dropping as precipitation.
The uncertainty
continued as China invested majorly in the technology between 2012 and 2017. It
spent approximately $1.34 billion on several weather modification programs.
Earlier in 2019, weather modification helped in bringing down about 70% of hail damage in China.
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