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Baking soda on the roadways to make it snow


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If you can catch a cold front going thru that's going to drop the temperature below 32 degrees and there's rain along that cold front, throw out baking soda on the tops of the hills while the road is wet (so the baking soda will stick, otherwise if it's dry out, the baking soda will blow off the road).

You also need a strong stationary low pressure system north or northwest of you.

I know this works because I am your rain teacher.

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Just now, pneumantion said:

If you can catch a cold front going thru that's going to drop the temperature below 32 degrees and there's rain along that cold front, throw out baking soda on the tops of the hills while the road is wet (so the baking soda will stick, otherwise if it's dry out, the baking soda will blow off the road).

You also need a strong stationary low pressure system north or northwest of you.

I know this works because I am your rain teacher.

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5 minutes ago, pneumantion said:

If you can catch a cold front going thru that's going to drop the temperature below 32 degrees and there's rain along that cold front, throw out baking soda on the tops of the hills while the road is wet (so the baking soda will stick, otherwise if it's dry out, the baking soda will blow off the road).

You also need a strong stationary low pressure system north or northwest of you.

I know this works because I am your rain teacher.

I’m starting to think you’re serious about all this

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I did it back in 2011.  I threw it out on I-57 near Carbondale, IL and watched a swath of Kentucky get 5-7 inches of snow in a snow band that lasted 12 hours.  Looked like lake effect snow coming from Carbondale.

Why wouldn't I be serious.

 

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7 minutes ago, pneumantion said:

Maybe I'm reaching out to you. 

You all are a select group of people that I choose to share it with.

There will be more to come in the future I think.

But if it’s raining and a cold front is going to drop the temp below 32 degrees wouldn’t it start snowing anyway?

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What I meant is it rains along the cold front, then it gets colder behind it without rain, just clouds.

You're basically seeding clouds with the baking soda into the cold conditions where there is moisture but not enough to fall without seeding but it has to be wet for the baking soda to stick and splatter on the roadways so it doesn't blow off until it dries on the roadway where cars and semi's blow a little off at a time in a training effect to the downwind areas.

I will admit,  the situation for it to work doesn't come up that often.

Gotta have that big stationary low pressure system and those are far between.

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22 hours ago, pneumantion said:

If you can catch a cold front going thru that's going to drop the temperature below 32 degrees and there's rain along that cold front, throw out baking soda on the tops of the hills while the road is wet (so the baking soda will stick, otherwise if it's dry out, the baking soda will blow off the road).

You also need a strong stationary low pressure system north or northwest of you.

I know this works because I am your rain teacher.

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