can artificial rain prevent wildfires?

Answer 1

As far as I know, the main problem is how to make artificial rain just in time and just in place.

Answer 2

The short answer is, "No."

Many areas of the country (including Southern California) are a desert. They lack rainfall due to the dryness of the atmosphere. You can not force rain from air that has very little moisture.

I assume by artificial rain you mean rain produced by seeding clouds. The fact that it is occurring during a very dry period, indicates that the air is dry also. If atmospheric moisture is limited, cloud seeding has a zero chance of producing rain.

The only times cloud seeding will work is when the conditions are somewhat favorable for rain. Even then, there is no way to measure the failure or success of the cloud seeding attempt.

A large fire is creating its own local environment (and in some cases wind field) that likely will be above anything humans could attempt to overcome.

The best course of action is prevention. Unfortunately, it appears that some people like to set fires either accidentally or on purpose. Sick.

Answer 3

Yes.Artificial rain can prevent and extinguish the wildfires provided you can produce the rain over the places where the wild fires are seen.Unfortunately this is impossible.
If cloud with enough moisture is there over a place but does not produce any rain,then only you can carry out cloud seeding and make it rain.In places where wild fires are seen ,only dry air will rise and this can not produce any clouds and without cloud you can not produce artificial rain.
If a pregnant women is not able to deliver a child even after completing ten months due to some problem,operation is done to bring the child out.Artificial rain through cloud seeding is something like that.

Answer 4

No, rain cannot be created artificially. It is possible that it can be enhanced by introducing various chemicals into clouds, but even that is not clear. If there are no rainclouds to begin with, though, there is nothing that can make them. Here in San Diego, the problem is not so much lack of rain, but the unequal distribution of rain throughout the year, and from year-to-year, which results in vegetation that can be very dry at particular times.

We're not actually in a desert around San Diego, so the hillsides get covered with very thick vegetation during rainy periods. But we get all our rain during the cool seasons, so in fall, when the Santa Ana winds hit, the vegetation is dried out and primed for fire. If there were such a thing as artificial rain it would help greatly, but you have to understand that even if it has rained recently, the Santa Ana winds that we have are perfect for fires: we had winds up to 100 mph, humidity under 10% and temperatures between 90 and 100, so the vegetation quickly dries out anyway.

Answer 5

How?

"Artifical rain" I dare presume you think means cloud seeding (putting nucleating agents in clouds so water will condense and rain would start). If you do not have the moisture to have clouds in the first place, then there is nothing to seed, and you cannot make it rain.