At least 10 Chinese provinces use cloud-seeding to combat heat wave

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At least 10 Chinese provinces use cloud-seeding to combat heat wave; ‘no effect’ on climate change, ecosystem

At least 10 provincial-level regions in Central and South China have resorted to precipitation enhancement to induce rain in the battle against the ongoing strongest heat wave in six decades, and Chinese meteorological departments and observers affirmed the effect of the process in alleviating drought and lowering temperatures, while stressing that the technique will not affect global rainfall, aggravate climate change or damage the ecosystem, as some Western media claimed. 

After cloud-seeding with artificial rain-enhancing planes on Thursday, Southwest China's Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality are expected to get moderate to heavy rain from Saturday to Tuesday, and the National Meteorological Center on Friday forecast that in the next 10 days, West China will receive many rounds of rain, as will East China's Anhui and Jiangsu provinces and Central China's Hubei Province, all of which have used cloud-seeding recently to induce rain. 

Actually on Thursday, Chongqing witnessed rain after the local meteorological department launched four artificial rain enhancement rockets, marking the city's first rainfall since August 7, and the cloud-seeding lowered the city's temperature by 9.2 C, local media reported on Friday. 

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