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ABSTRACT AFTER the magisterial words of Prof. Cleveland Abbe, as reported in your issue of December 13, 1900, it requires some courage to offer a possible instance of “artificial” rain. I


was near Bolton Abbey railway station on November 26 last. The atmosphere was perfectly calm, and a thin white mist enveloped the landscape. A number of land-blasting explosions took place


in some limestone quarries, perhaps a quarter of a mile away. At a very short interval after these there occurred a very little shower or sprinkling of rain, just sufficient to cause me to


put up my umbrella in preparation for more. The extreme brevity of the shower, and the peculiar conditions under which it occurred, arrested my attention, and led me at once to refer it to


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ARTICLE WOODD, C. Artificial Rain. _Nature_ 63, 232 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063232a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 03 January 1901 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/063232a0 SHARE


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