How effective is cloud seeding, and why isn’t this done more often in places with regular forest fires (like California) or in the last few weeks to help the situation in Australia?

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How effective is cloud seeding, and why isn’t this done more often in places with regular forest fires (like California) or in the last few weeks to help the situation in Australia?

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Answer 1

Cloud seeding can’t conjure rain out of nothing, only accelerate rain in clouds that were already going to do it anyways. As such, it’s pretty much useless for places like California or Australia where the reason you get the regular wildfires is a lack of rain that makes the land dry and easily combustible.