Indonesia Breaks Smoke Inversion With Dry Ice Where Cloud Seeding Fails

Indonesian authorities used dry ice to break the temperature inversion trapping wildfire smoke near the ground in South Sumatra. A trial flight on October 15 raised visibility near Palembang's airport from 650 to 2,800 meters in a single operation.

• Dry ice is dispersed from a Cessna Caravan at 4,500 feet (1,372 m)
• One operation raised visibility from 650 to 2,800 meters
• Indonesia has run 252 cloud-seeding operations since 2021
• 1,061,746 wildfire hotspots were detected as of October 14, beating the 2019 record