Mankind will forever try any gimmick to change the weather. Remember those planes that tried to seed the clouds to break up hurricanes? They didn’t work.
Now come the French who are confident that helium balloons loaded with hygroscopic salts will turn hail into rain. The experiment was approved by 90 percent of winemakers in St. Emilion. Thirty-seven launchers will be used.
Hails was especially damaging in St. Emilion and the Entre-Deux-Mers region in 2020.