About time we got some rain here. Should expect a few more thunderstorms over the next few days too. I would love to see a few t-storms pop up in the Pecos area so that I can fly. I work as a weather modification pilot so I'll do my best in Loving, Ward, Reeves and Culberson counties to get you all some rain here in the next few days!

I have to ask...
define: weather modification pilot ?

Just guessing, but cloud seeding? Has been going on, off and on for years in WT. Angelo had it done for several years in the '90s.

Keep your backside out of Howard County!

LoudestWhoop - basically Emc77 is correct - it's cloud seeding. Cloud seeding is based on the concept that clouds are lacking in ice nuclei and therefore additions of silver iodide crystals that mimic the structure of ice should result in a more efficient precipitation producing cloud system.

We have a series of flares attached to the aircraft that contain the silver iodide. Once we release the silver iodide into an updraft of a cloud, supercooled liquid water is converted into ice particles, releasing latent heat, increasing buoyancy, and thereby invigorating cloud updrafts. Basically, this will cause the cloud to grow larger, process more water vapor, and yield more precipitation.

I have only been working on the project for around a month but so far I have really enjoyed it. I am still learning as I go, and by no means is this an exact science, but we are learning with each mission. I am only the pilot for the operation, but we are working with a comapny based in th panhandle region of Texas which has been in operation for some time. Let me know if you have any other questions.

... and all this time I thought it was me doing the rain dance. Man, I feel like an idiot!

Whoop - sorry my job now buddy. Along with a nice pretty plane to fly all over the sky I was given an Indian head dress, face paint, a cool looking staff with a cow skull attached to it and I am told to dance around a fire every time before I go flying...

Thanks Dworak,
I was starting to embarrass my kids.