Thursday, May 17, 2012

Cessna Caravan C208 on weather modification - rain making flight

 
Coming back inbound to land at VTCC Chiang Mai International Airport in northern Thailand, the Cumulonimbus supercooled cloud of anvil shaped super summer strom is now yielding rain and that the convection of its top seems to become less active as the whole cell is sinking releasing rain droplets. Now it's not becoming super summer storm as it stops developing upward and we can now be sure that there will not be hail storm and strong wind of microburst coming in to hit the city.
The weather radar on board shows good echo of intensified rain droplets.
 
 

On the road again ..... ( up in the air ) ..... I just can't wait to get on the road again ! It's just a clip of our flight, a formation flight of two C-208, taking off from VTCC Chiang Mai International airport in northern Thailand. This is in early May 2012 and we were flying to dispense rain making substances to create more cloud condensation nuclei. The sky-the atmosphere turned out to be, as could be seen with high relative humidity due to La Nina, a sudden change, which it was firstly predicted at the beginning of the year that El Nino would affect Thailand but it's the other way around. It's hard to predict these days, global warming ?, but surely the change has taken place...

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