Cloud Seed Results
The results of a cloud-seeding trial to break drought in south-east Queensland will be known by next month. Scientists are analysing the results of two seasons of cloud-seeding, which first started in December 2007. It involved 64 research flights to seed small storm clouds, in an effort to increase the amount of rain they produce. The $7.6m trial was run by the Climate Change Centre of Excellence, part of the State Government’s Environmental Protection Agency. An EPA spokeswoman said about 130 clouds were seeded over Somerset and Wivenhoe dams catchment areas, two of Brisbane’s major water supplies.