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Squeezing the clouds: Aboard the small plane making it rain in drought-stricken Honduras

Juan Carlos Díaz, technical operator of the cloud stimulation program, on a flight over Honduras on October 8.

The rivers near the capital look brown from an altitude of 3,600 meters. It rained lightly in Honduras a week ago, and some of the murky water is returning to the Humaya river, one of many parched streams that 20 years ago did not show such arid scenes. Aboard the King Air C90, Víctor Torres, a Mexican pilot and member of Startup Renaissance, enlarges a patch of dark clouds near Comayagua on the screen and receives a clear instruction from the meteorologist on the ground: a dart-in-a-bullseye emoji. “Hold on,” he warns.

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A river rising after precipitation generated by the cloud stimulation program.A satellite map of the areas of Honduran territory intervened during the flight day.The small plane used for seeding on the runway of Coronel Hernán Acosta Mejía Air Base, in Tegucigalpa.Suyapa Alvarenga pours rain-collected water from a barrel into her sink in Tegucigalpa on October 7.
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