Word: clouded
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...Everybody complains about the weather," the old saying goes, "But nobody does anything about it." That is, until now. A Nov. 1 snowfall in Beijing - the city's earliest since 1987 - is due, Chinese scientists say, to a campaign of "cloud-seeding" to encourage precipitation. If true, it's the wettest success yet in a long-standing effort to bring moisture artificially to the parched northern regions of China. So how'd they do it? (See pictures of the science of snowflakes...
...method of cloud-seeding used by the Chinese involves dosing the atmosphere with silver iodide, a chemical solution either dropped from planes or shot up from the ground. (Other methods use salt or dry ice.) The silver iodide particles supercharge cloud formation, as they act as excellent condensation nuclei. Once clouds form, they also start a positive feedback effect. As droplets freeze and are added to the cloud, they release their heat, creating an updraft which draws additional moisture from the ground into the atmosphere...
...seemed like JP [Makrai] and Joe [Cloud] were having bad days, and, for whatever reason, they weren’t doing whatever they normally do,” Hughes said...
...results were more of the same. Midway through the second quarter, another bounced snap caused Cloud to rush his punt, which traveled only 25 yards...
Although Otavio Fluery replaced Cloud in the second half, he shanked a 10-yard punt at the end of the third quarter to cap off a miserable day for the Tigers’ special teams...