“Ahead of major public holidays the Russian Air Force often dispatches up to 12 cargo planes carrying loads of silver iodide, liquid nitrogen and cement powder to seed clouds above Moscow and empty the skies of moisture … Weather specialists said the cement’s failure to turn to powder was the first hiccup in 20 years.”
In Russia, sometimes it rains cement | Reuters
Wait … Russians have been attempting cloud seeding for 20 years? I could almost (though still not fully) understand attempting to seed or “de-spin” a hurricane or otherwise potentially damaging storm, but seeding clouds purely to keep it from raining on a national holiday? Really?
