Rain makers | Airborne firefighters seed clouds to trigger rain over wildfire-hit Siberian forests

 

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Wildfires are raging in Russia's Yakutia region with smoke reportedly reaching as far as the North Pole. RT's Dmitry Pauk joined a group of airborne firefighters in the region - as they seeded clouds, to force it to rain,

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***Cloud seeding involves using aircraft or drones to add small particles of silver iodide, which have a structure similar to ice, to clouds. Water droplets cluster around the particles, modifying the structure of the clouds and increasing the chance of precipitation.