drought there.The King Air B-350i aircraft of the Mexican Air Force arrived at a military base in Nuevo León, a state in the northeast region of Mexico, to "bomb" clouds on Tuesday, July 19.The state has experienced severe drought all summer and the biggest city, Monterrey, has its three main reservoirs at just 43%, 9% and 1% capacity.READ MORE: Woman fled burning house with just dead dad's ashes, a cat and photo albumThe city, one of the country's richest, is on its knees due to a severe lack of rain and a blistering heatwave.
Many are saying the area is suffering the worst water crisis it has seen in decades.So, depending on the weather, the jet will carry out cloud stimulation flights from yesterday (Tuesday, July 19) to July 31.
During its first flight on Tuesday, authorities indicated that the first bombardment of the plane over the clouds managed to cause precipitation in the area flown over.
On the same day, the Air Force aircraft flew over the La Boca Dam, in Santiago, for about two hours, unloading 100 litres of silver iodide.This is called cloud seeding, a process of spraying clouds with a mixture of silver iodide and acetone to induce precipitation.
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