Cloud seeding and firefighting

[hagopbul]

TL;DR Summary

A question about atmospheric physics and its application

Hello:

Heard in the news that there is massive fire disaster in los angeles , california

And a question came to me , what about cloud seeding isn't it a possible method to help handling this disaster

How much time will take from cloud seeding start date until it start to rain on the fire zone

How wind will effect the operation

Is it valuable method on the scale of the resources that it requires

Best regards
H

 

[Dale]

Cloud seeding has never been shown to be effective

 

[hagopbul]

In dubai they did a mistake resulted in alot of rain on entire city of dubai , would that accident help in creating a similar condition over the fire zone , taking into account the above questions

 

[Motore]

In dubai they did a mistake resulted in alot of rain on entire city of dubai , would that accident help in creating a similar condition over the fire zone , taking into account the above questions

The rain in UAE was not because of cloud seeding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Arab_Emirates_floods#Cause

 

[DaveE]

Well... You'd need clouds first.
The warm, dry, Santa Ana winds from the desert are the problem. If they had clouds hanging around, they wouldn't need to seed them.