Playing God: Ward County, North Dakota ceases cloud seeding for the year, debate continues in Bowman County
By Traci Eatherton July 26, 2017 Tri-State Livestock News
Cloud seeding, or weather modification, is believed to change the amount or type
of precipitation that falls from clouds, by dispersing chemicals into the air that
serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, which alter the microphysical
processes within the cloud.
A view from the King Air as it skims across the tops of clouds above Idaho’s Payette Basin. Photo by Dave Plummer
“We are asking to join the other 47 counties in the state who do not try to modify
their weather,” Neshem said. Ward County, home to Minot, is one of seven left in
a seeding program in the state. The others are Bowman, Burke, McKenzie,
Mountrail, Williams and part of Slope.