Charles Holmgren turns on a propane tank and turns on the flame on a nearby burner. He'll leave it going, while he does other things on his Tremonton farm.
TREMONTON, Utah — Charles Holmgren turns on a propane tank and turns on the flame on a nearby burner."Typically, it will run from six to 48 hours at a time," Holmgren said.
Holmgren gets paid a little to do some"cloud seeding." It's something he's done for 34 years now, but state officials are looking to do more of as Utah's mega-drought stretches on and the Great Salt Lake hits record lows. "It's something we can do today to impact our water supply today," DNR executive director Joel Ferry told FOX 13 News.
"We do have to have conditions present that normally would be creating snowfall," he said."But we're just really amping it up. We're squeezing out a little extra." "It’s one of the best, most effective, cheapest methods we can do to increase our water supply today," said Ferry. "What we've found is there will eventually be an inflection point, probably around the middle of the century, maybe the back half of the century, where the state's ability to cloud seed and squeeze out moisture in these special types of clouds is going to be limited and will be affected by climate change," he says, adding:"But for right now and certainly over the next few decades, it's vital for us.
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