Convective clouds, which look like cotton balls piled on top of each other, carry rain. NMC monitors them for the amount of moisture they carry and conducts cloud seeding for better rainfall.

The experiment involved hygroscopic cloud seeding, which triggered rainfall in convective clouds. The study also evaluated glaciogenic seeding in cold clouds but found no significant impact on ...

Itamar M. Lensky, Daniel Rosenfeld, Satellite-Based Insights into Precipitation Formation Processes in Continental and Maritime Convective Clouds at Nighttime, Journal of Applied Meteorology ...

A cloud seeding experiment to artificially trigger rain over the Solapur region of southwest Maharashtra led to 18 per cent more rainfall than in normal conditions, a study has revealed. In the ...

The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) has issued a weather advisory detailing at-intervals-fluctuations in weather patterns across the country over the coming days. According to NCM, Monday ...