The city of Zamboanga have been experiencing drought for almost 5 months now. No rain, not even a single drop. It turned out to be a natural phenomenon called the "El Niño Phenomenon" It is not only being experienced in Zamboanga, but in the entire Philippine Archipelago as well. Hydro-electric power plants in the region have experienced drops of water level which causes the current rotational "brownouts". Water supply have also been rationed in majority of the major cities here.
But, through the efforts of the Department of Agriculture, together with the local government of Zamboanga, a "cloud-seeding project" was initialized,with hopes of bringing back rain.
Then on Sunday, March 21, 2010, it rained hard (miraculously). Well, ofcourse, the D.A. claimed that it was through their effort of cloud-seeding which brought the rain. Well, so they thought.
At around midnight 'til dawn, of March 22, 2010, it rained so hard again, and with thunderstorms this time.
Well, ofcourse, everyone was so happy after months of drought, it finally came.
But, then again, my curious bone tingled. Could the cloud-seeding project really have worked?
Upon turning on the TV last night (March 23, 2010), I happened to switch the channel to Kuya Kim's weather report. And to my surprise, a Tropical storm is approaching the Philippine Archipelago.
Could this be the result of D.A.'s effort of cloud-seeding?
Although, it was reported by PAGASA that the tropical storm will not affect the Philippines, still it comes to mind whether or not the storm was conjured by the cloud-seeding efforts.
Anyway, let's just hope that this storm does not cause such trouble to our city.
And let's continue to hope and pray that there will no longer be such a phenomenon as this, the El Niño.
I rest my case.
Jonathan Paul C. Solis
Curious-weather-guy
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