Is China behind the cloudburst in India: Telangana CM's statement caused panic, the dragon has made it rain without any weather; Understand everything with 8 questions
July 17, 2022: Telangana Chief Minister Chandrashekhar Rao said that there is a conspiracy of foreign powers behind the incidents of cloudburst in India. Earlier also he had done the same in Leh-Ladakh and Uttarakhand.
8 July 2022: 16 people died, while 40 are still missing in a cloudburst flood near the holy Amarnath cave in Jammu and Kashmir.
July-August 2008: The Olympics were going on in Beijing, then the capital of China. The Meteorological Department expressed the possibility of rain on the day of the match. To avoid this, China had got artificial rain, that is, artificial rain, a day before the match.
1967-1972: The US conducted Operation Popoy during the Vietnam War. The US Army inflicted heavy losses on the enemy forces in Vietnam through cloud seeding.
Here a new debate has erupted in India over the statement of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. While a section of social media is making fun of it, there is also a section which is discussing it considering it serious.
Know in Bhaskar Explainer why the question on China was raised due to cloudburst in India? What is artificial rain, after all, how is rain done without weather?
Question 1: First of all, know why KCR spoke of a foreign conspiracy regarding rain?
Due to heavy rains, the Godavari area of Telangana is facing floods these days. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, i.e. KCR had gone on a visit to the flood-hit Bhadrachalam on July 17. There he attributed the heavy rains and floods in Godavari area to cloudburst and said that there could be a foreign conspiracy behind it.
Rao said, 'This is a new phenomenon, which is called cloud burst. People say that there is some conspiracy in this, we do not know how true it is, it is said that foreigners are deliberately carrying out cloudburst incidents in some places in our country. They have already done this in Leh-Ladakh and Uttarakhand also.
Question 2: Now do you know what is this cloudburst?
Cloudburst is a phenomenon of heavy rainfall in a small area in a short period of time.
There is nothing like a cloudburst in it. Yes, such rain is so strong as if a huge polythene filled with lots of water has exploded in the sky. That is why it is called as cloud burst in Hindi and cloudburst in English. Now let's understand cloud bursting with mathematics. According to the Meteorological Department, when suddenly an area of 20 to 30 square kilometers receives 100 mm or more of rain in an hour or less, then it is called cloud burst.
For this, first let us understand the meaning of 1mm of rain. See, 1 mm of rain means that it is raining 1 liter of water in 1 meter long and 1 meter wide i.e. 1 square meter area. Now fitting this math to the definition of cloudburst, then whenever 100 liters or more of water falls in an area 1 meter long and 1 meter wide, that too in an hour or less, then understand that on this area The cloud broke.
Just 100 liters! Well, you must be finding the maths very small. To get an idea of its magnitude, if you fit this math in an area of 1 square kilometer instead of 1 square meter, then whenever 100 million liters of water falls in 1 square kilometer area in less than an hour, then there will be clouds. ripped out.
Question 3: Is there a Chinese conspiracy behind the floods in India?
In these 46 years from 1970 to 2016, there were more than 30 incidents of cloudburst in the country. All these incidents happened in the region of Himalayas. Heavy rains followed by cloudbursts have caused floods in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh several times.
In 2013, there was a disaster in Kedarnath due to sudden floods due to cloudburst in Uttarakhand. During this, more than 5 thousand people died. In Assam, hundreds of people die every year due to rains and floods. Since most of the cloudburst incidents occur in the areas bordering India-China. In such a situation, there is a possibility of a Chinese conspiracy behind this. The border dispute between China and India has been going on for many years.
The Chinese army keeps on taking provocative action on the border from time to time. In such a situation, many people are suspecting that China is plotting cloudburst and is trying to harm India with rain and floods. Before we proceed, let's take a poll...
Question 4: How many countries have the technology to make artificial rain?
60 countries of the world, including India, China, America, have developed the technology to make artificial rain or artificial rain. The technology of making artificial rain is called cloud seeding or weather control technology. Through cloud seeding, rain can be done whenever or before time. China has mastered this technique and has used it many times.
• China was successful in holding the 2008 Olympics without interruption of rain
• During the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China used weather modification technology to make it rain the day before in the cities where the Olympic matches were to be held. Due to this the sky was clear the next day and there was no rain. With the help of this technology, China was able to organize the Beijing Olympics 2008 without interruption of rain.
Question 5: What is cloud seeding after all?
The technique of artificially converting clouds into rain is called cloud seeding.
For cloud seeding, chemicals such as silver iodide, potassium iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) are scattered close to the clouds in the sky by helicopter or plane. These particles attract steam in the air, forming a cumulonimbus cloud and eventually rain.
It usually takes half an hour for it to rain in this way.
Question 6: What is the general use of this technique?
This technique is often used to deal with drought-prone areas or air pollution. Sometimes cloud seeding is also used to clear the fog around some airports. The Beijing Olympics is a great example of this, where China had made it rain the day before by converting clouds into rain through cloud seeding in Beijing.
Cloud seeding has two main purposes - either to increase rain or snowfall at will or to get it rained a day or two in advance at a particular place.
Question 7: When was cloud seeding technology first used?
Its first successful experiment was done in 1946 by American scientist Vincent J. Shafer. After this, cloud seeding has been done with aircraft, rockets, cannons and ground generators.
Question 8: Can cloud seeding cause cloudburst?
See, there is no significant difference between a very heavy rain and a cloudburst, when there is a lot of rain at a certain place in a given time, then we call it cloudburst. Cloudburst depends on the clouds. If in such a situation, after identifying the clouds filled with too much steam and do cloud seeding in it, then the clouds can burst.
America used cloud seeding in the war against Vietnam
The US used cloud seeding technology during the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1972. America did this to gain an edge over Vietnam while running 'Operation Popoy'. However, there is still no opinion on how much success America had got in this.
According to some reports, the US had carried out the cloudburst incident through cloud seeding on Ho Chi Minh city of Vietnam. Due to this there was a situation of sudden rains, floods and landslides. This caused heavy losses to the Vietnamese army.
Electric charge technology was used for cloud seeding in Dubai in 2021
In July 2021, when the temperature reached 50 degrees in Dubai, cloud seeding was done there to relieve the heat. For this, silver iodide, potassium iodide and dry ice were scattered in the sky through planes and helicopters.
The particles of these chemicals attracted the moisture of the air towards them. When all the water particles came close, a big storm cloud was formed. Then this cloud was electrically charged through the drone, due to which it rained. It took only half an hour to get rain through this process.
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