[matt_f]

Question! Is there any reason this technique could not be applied to solve the Oregon wildfires?

[anomaloustho]

Last I read, the effectiveness of cloud seeding is still up for debate.

Wikipedia has a section on effectiveness, “A study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences failed to find statistically significant support for the effectiveness of cloud seeding.”[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

[kamranjon]

Lack of clouds during wildfire conditions would be my guess

[y-c-o-m-b]

We've actually had a dozen mornings now in the Portland area with significant cloud cover. There's also been NW wind flow so if this technique only needed clouds and wind to push it in the direction of the fires, I don't see a reason why it couldn't work. Then again I'm no meteorologist.