Weather modification

<p>Weather modification  is the act of intentionally manipulating or altering the <a href="/facts/Weather/f0qzFRVV">weather</a>. The most common form of weather modification is <a href="/facts/Cloud_seeding/sleWvvte">cloud seeding</a>, which increases rainfall or snowfall, usually for the purpose of increasing the local <a href="/facts/Water_supply/1UuexMtl">water supply</a>. Weather modification can also have the goal of preventing <a href="/facts/Natural_disaster/cCSK2uH0">damaging weather</a>, such as <a href="/facts/Hail/NphEs2Kz">hail</a> or <a href="/facts/Hurricanes/FQzVXly7">hurricanes</a>, from occurring; or of provoking damaging weather against an enemy, as a tactic of military or <a href="/facts/Economic_warfare/GCA1HJyQ">economic warfare</a> like <a href="/facts/Operation_Popeye/sI804qjl">Operation Popeye</a>, where clouds were <a href="/facts/Cloud_seeding/sleWvvte">seeded</a> to prolong the monsoon in Vietnam. Weather modification in warfare has been banned by the <a href="/facts/United_Nations/fgXLnmgT">United Nations</a> under the <a href="/facts/Environmental_Modification_Convention/nbVqMhDM">Environmental Modification Convention</a>.
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Weather modification