Flying Squid to Political Weirdos @lemmy.world • 8 months agoWeirdo is now a meteorologist.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1469
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•8 months agoNo. We can control the climate, not the weather. We can make flooding and draughts more likely, but cannot pick a date and time.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•8 months agoWe can seed clouds but that’s about it… And even that is just precipitating existing humidity. We can’t create rain if the air is dry. We also can’t, for example, make it snow in summer, create or control tornados, lightning, hurricanes, hail, etc.
No. We can control the climate, not the weather. We can make flooding and draughts more likely, but cannot pick a date and time.
We can seed clouds but that’s about it… And even that is just precipitating existing humidity. We can’t create rain if the air is dry.
We also can’t, for example, make it snow in summer, create or control tornados, lightning, hurricanes, hail, etc.