Hey, what's wrong with that plane? It's flying over your head, moving in circles! Has it lost its way? Are there some problems with its navigation systems? Nah, calm down. It's just sprinkling salt over the clouds. It's called cloud seeding. Everyone knows for sure rock salt is used to prevent people from slipping and cars from skidding off the road in the winter. But why would we need to do it in the sky?!

Well, drought is a big problem in many places all over the planet. A lack of drinking water, parched soil, wilting plants... And cloud seeding could solve this problem once and for all. To put it simply, the whole process is sowing clouds with chemicals to make it snow or rain. But how exactly does this thing work? And why do some people are skeptical about the cloud-seeding idea? Let's find out!

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