Easy! Thousands of microwaves!
It’s possible microwave frequencies are involved in some of this. But couldn’t clouds over the oceans be seeded with chemicals that cause them to draw extra moisture which they then proceed to dump on land? Just as one example.
You probably know this off the top of your head, or could make an educated guess about this one: How far away from lightning would you need to be to never hear the thunder? Or, how can there be fierce lightning with no sound of thunder or crackling at all? I saw some a few weeks back and can’t figure how that can be. The bolts appeared to be close. They sure were huge and vivid. If they were too far away for the sound to reach me, then those were some distant but enormous bolts!
microwaves are very inefficient... for example, how long does it take your MW to heat up a cup of fluid? 1 minute, 2? now consider the amount of power required to heat up that cup of fluid... most MW are 120VAC and use about 10-15 amps, therefore 1200-1800 watts and about 750-1000W are actually inside the chamber, and the chamber is about 2.5 cubic feet. Imagine the power needed to heat up thousands of cubic miles of air.....
with cloud seeding, clouds or high concentrations of water vapor have to be present to start with to allow the "seeds" ( normally silver nitrate crystals) to change the ionic charge of the water vapor to "condense" into a fog ( cloud). But first, the water vapor needs to be there and that comes from evaporation of water at a lower elevation ( the air pressure needs to be high to allow enuf concentration of the vapor to retain the heat to rise to upper elevations)...
So, step one, get enuf " hot hi pressure water vapor" to rise, 2. keep the rising bubble of hot vapor contained to reach altitude, 3. allow bubble to contact colder upper level temps to condense, and 4. dump millions of pounds of silver nitrate into the conversion zone to initiate heavy condensation which creates rain...
and as for quiet lightning... one can see a storm as far away as 120 miles easily.... yup, it looks quite decieving, looks as if it just 10-20 miles away ( or less) ... next time you see another storm like that, do a quick local weather radar check on the internet for your area and see just how far away the storm really is....
also, sound has a difficult time traveling
thru theromclines ( stratified layers of different density of air (( and in water too, submarines use this to hide)) )
but the real question is.... if lightning only lasts a fraction of seconds, why can the thunder last for several seconds?
