Delhi’s winter atmosphere is climatologically unsuitable for consistent cloud seeding due to a fundamental lack of sufficient moisture and saturation, particularly during the peak pollution months of December and January, according to an IIT-Delhi report.

The report, based on a comprehensive analysis integrating climatological data (2011-2021) by IIT’s Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, comes against the backdrop of the Delhi government conducting two cloud-seeding trials in Burari, north Karol Bagh and Mayur Vihar in collaboration with IIT-Kanpur, but there was no rain. The institute had earlier conducted successful trials in Kanpur in 2017-18, but this was the first such experiment in the Delhi-NCR region.

“While cloud seeding is theoretically feasible under specific atmospheric conditio

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