Vejrkontrol/Kontrol af vejret

Kineserne har faktisk i forbindelse med åbningen af OL affyret 1200 raketter op i nogle tunge regnskyer. Om det hjalp eller ej ved jeg ikke.

In his report to the Ministry of Agriculture on the effect of shooting in Styria and Krain in 1904 prof. Prohaska says : "The year 1904 has tested the weather shooting in Styria severely with much hail, and it can not be said that this test has come out in favor of shooting. Primarily this applies to the shooting location Windisch-Feistritz, where grave hail damages were recorded. If we pass over 23 April, on which day the shooting may not yet have worked perfectly, then still the failures of shooting on 23 May and 3 July cannot be ignored. On the first one of these days the thunderstorm extended itself over the shooting area from SW to NE, and it was seen that the hailfall, which at the outset was light, gained intensity while passing over the grid of shooting stations, and had the largest effect in the NE third which was reached last. If the Tainach area at the SE corner, where the thunderstorm began, had been hit harder and if the Oberpulsgau had been hit less, then this case had led to a less negative judgement on the effectivity of shooting. Moreover reference to the fact, that mainly the periphery and not the center of the region has suffered, cannot diminish the failure when considering the direction of the thunderstorm path.
While on 23 May the shooting region had lain under a hailswath, on 3 July just a local hail-fall occurred, which showed no clear expansion. Again the NE part of the shooting grid, next to theOberpulsgau, was struck; hailstones fell in sizes of hazelnuts and of chicken eggs, about two-thirds of the hoped-for harvest was lost."