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Hail Cannons

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Came across this URL marketing hail cannons manufactured in the South Island.
The small cb photo on the home page came from my website.

http://www.hailcannon.com/index.html
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Haha nice find! Couldn't imagine it being really that effective, looks quite suspect actually.

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Were you asked if your photo could be used....the device looks very expensive.
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i think they make the hail smaller?
(breaks it up), as against completly preventing hail?
but i could be wrong
ah...
see
http://www.hailcannon.com/how.html
its supposed to stop the formation.,..
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its supposed to stop the formation.,..
My concern would be the stones that have already formed with in the cb cloud before the cannon is in range.
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yes, or the ones that have been blown out of an anvil top, away from where they were formed too!
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They are about as effective as farting into a hurricane! :lol:
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What a crock of sh*t.

I'd like to see peer reviewed evidence of their effectiveness.

If it was pointed at approaching weather perhaps, but not straight up.
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it does say it only gives a 200m radius of protection....
maybe with a slow moving CB that developed right over head it might work?
but a fast moving hail shower in a squally airstream, surely there would be no protection...
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"Saru mo ki kara ochiru"
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interesting...he claims it worked....but hail is like that....it runs in lines...might not be so lucky next time?
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Aussies are in to these big time. I worked in the pear orchards in northern-Victoria and anytime some dark cloud came near it was like WW1 with explosions going off for miles around.
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