Lynmouth Flood Disaster: RAF rainmaking
34 people died.
There is ‘compelling evidence that scientists were carrying out cloud seeding experiments.’
Operation Cumulus was the name of the experiment being carried out by the RAF and an international team of scientists in August 1952.
On August 15 1952, the cloud seeding experiments came to a sudden end, official documents have confirmed.
It was also the same day that Devon experienced the biggest floods the region has seen in more than 300 years.
The scientists were based at Cranfield school of aeronautics and worked with the RAF and the MoD’s meteorological research team at Farnborough. The chemicals were provided by ICI in Billingham.
Silver iodide can cause a downpour.
Silver residue has been discovered in the catchment waters of the river Lyn.
“All clouds moving towards the Greater Jakarta area, which are estimated to lead to precipitation there, will be shot with NaCl (sodium chloride) material,” Indonesia’s technology agency BPPT explained in a statement.’