The cloud seeding that started in the 1950s using silver iodine was good for watering the crops of the farmers. Nevertheless, it can also be used to wet the undergrowth in plains and mountains which is the place where wildfires usually start. If the clouds enter from the eastern Pacific into western California and two more states in the north, cloudseeding would probably minimize the many fires that destroy almost a decade now thousands of hectares. It would also be wise to get rid of all the shrubs growing around the Californian homes before they catch fire. During my Sabbaticals in 1989 and 1996, I have seen the remains of 1300 destroyed homes between Berkeley and Oakland of which only three brick steps and a brick chimneys were visible. In case it is done, enlarge the amount or frequency of the cloudseeding from stoves in one's garden or by sprinkling the silver iodine above the rain cloud by means of an airplane or a balloon.
Kindly check https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229416491_Silver_iodide_seeding_impact_on_the_microphysics_and_dynamics_of_convective_clouds_in_the_High_Plains
Particles of silver iodide can cause supercool clouds of water vapor to freeze into snow https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/does-cloud-seeding-really-work-experiment-above-idaho-suggests-humans-can-turbocharge
With an NFPA 704 health hazard rating of 2, silver iodide can cause temporary incapacitation or possible residual injury to humans and other mammals with intense or chronic exposure. However, there have been several detailed ecological studies that showed negligible environmental and health impacts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
Farmers have long wished they could control the rain, and now weather manipulation can do just that. Cloud seeding, the most common way to modify weather, involves shooting silver iodide or other chemicals into clouds to encourage precipitation. In other words, a silver bullet can make it rain. https://now.northropgrumman.com/making-rain-science-weather-manipulation/
Dear Chinaza, thanks for the comments which I will study in due time. Meanwhile, have a look at the new cloud seeding process tested in the United Arab Emirates where Dr. Zou tested other material which provided five times the quantity of rain at the UAE. Please, click: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2020_cloud_seeding_experiment_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates
ar Chinaza, continuing with the hazards if silver tu humans ans animals, I feel free to quote myself in the booklet I just published in ResearchGate.net entitle Archaeology versus Archaeometry; Who needs Whom, where on page 47 I quoted my nephew at the Hebrew University as follows: " Having dealt with silver and lead in contaminating agents in our soil and wind dust, I asked the question whether silver is bad for your health in general and our teeth in particular. I asked my nephew, Dr. Michael Perez-Davidi, who teaches at the Department of Prosthodontics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and he told me “silver has known bacterial qualities and no known cytotoxicity to human cells. That said, amalgam which was used as filling material that contains 50% mercury being cytotoxic. But when it is amalgamated with the silver it is bound and relative antibacterial safe in that respect. Silver is an added material to polymers to give them some antimicrobial characteristics”.
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