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</html>";s:4:"text";s:13332:"It was also the same day that Devon experienced the biggest, most tragic, flooding event the region has seen in more than 300 years. RAF logbooks and personnel corroborate the evidence. The list of possible uses included "bogging down enemy movement", "incrementing the water flow in rivers and streams to hinder or stop enemy crossings", and clearing fog from airfields. RAF logbooks and personnel corroborate the evidence. The disaster was officially termed "the hand of God" but new evidence from previously classified government files suggests that a team of international scientists working with the RAF was experimenting with artificial rainmaking in southern Britain in the same week and could possibly be implicated. Many countries now use the technology, which has considerably improved during the past 50 years. However, silver residue has been discovered in the catchment waters of the river Lyn. Met office reports from these dates describe flights undertaken to collect data on cumulus cloud temperature, water content, icing rate, vertical motions and turbulence, and water droplet and ice crystal formation. The documents also talk of rainmaking having a potential "to explode an atomic weapon in a seeded storm system or cloud. In 1955 questions were asked in the Commons about the possibilities of liability and compensation claims. And more than one person observed that the clouds above North Devon and West Somerset were moving in completely opposite directions. "I was told that the rain had been the heaviest for several years - and all out of a sky which looked summery ... there was no disguising the fact that the seedsman had said he'd make it rain, and he did. Controversy still surrounds the early cloud-seeding experiments. We flew down to see if any rain came out of the cloud. Devon Live looks at cases from Exeter, Torbay, North and South Devon. The Grecians are in the hat after their 3-2 win over Gillingham. Documents seen by the BBC suggest that both the air ministry and the Treasury became very anxious and were aware that rainmaking could cause damage, not just to military targets and personnel, but also to civilians. On 16 August 1952, the holiday village of Lynmouth in north Devon was devastated by fatal flooding. It all went in the flood.". Former RAF servicemen have described how they took part in the experiments in the years running up to the flood, a claim consistently denied by the Ministry of Defence. Declassified minutes from an air ministry meeting, held in the war office on November 3, 1953, show why the military were interested in increasing rain and snow by artificial means. He survived by climbing across rooftops and watched as cars, buildings and whole trees were swept by just feet from him. The worst post-war flooding disaster in Britain took place in the North Devon village of Lynmouth in 1952, in a tragedy which claimed 34 lives. The clouds would then precipitate, pulled down below freezing point by the extra weight of dense particles, thus making it rain sooner and heavier than it might have done. But then they were always a bit like that - the sort who'd peer out from behind their curtains at you. The BBC Radio 4 programme The Day They Made It Rain suggested that both the air ministry and the Treasury were aware that rainmaking could cause damage, not just to military targets and personnel, but also to civilians. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. The clouds would be pulled below freezing by the extra weight of dense particles, making the rain fall sooner and heavier. Wendy Marker was working at a local hotel on that fateful Friday night, when her parents decided to evacuate their home. Significantly, silver iodide was claimed to cause a downpour up to 300 miles away. On the anniversary of the Lynmouth tragedy that claimed 34 lives, we look at compelling evidence that scientists were carrying out cloud seeding experiments, Get the pick of the week's stories and fascinating Devon history features direct to your inbox every Saturday morning in our exclusive Weekend Report newsletter. But a 50-year-old radio broadcast unearthed by Radio 4 describes an aeronautical engineer and glider pilot, Alan Yates, working with Operation Cumulus at the time and flying over Bedfordshire, spraying quantities of salt. The meteorological office had previously denied there were any rainmaking experiments conducted before 1955, but a BBC Radio 4 history investigation, broadcast in August 2001, unearthed documents at the public record office showing that they were going on from 1949 to 1955. A controversy has started that the flood was caused by secret cloud seeding experiments carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) between 1949 and 1952. The event has become known as the Lynmouth Flood Disaster, and since 1952 we've come a long way when it comes to dealing with sudden, violent, inundations - … Rain-making link to killer floods Government "rain-makers" used adapted gliders Thirty-five deaths in the infamous Lynmouth flood disaster came only days after RAF rain-making … The Day They Made It Rain, Radio 4 , 8.30pm. On August 15, 1952, one of the worst flash floods ever to have occurred in Britain swept through the Devon village of Lynmouth. Thirty five people died as a torrent of 90m tons of water and thousands of tons of rock poured off saturated Exmoor and into the village destroying homes, bridges, shops and … Most methods involved firing particles of salt, dry ice, or silver iodide, into clouds, either from an aeroplane or from burners on the ground. The deaths included babies, children, teenagers, back-packers, husbands and wives and the elderly. Operation Cumulus was put on hold indefinitely after the tragedy. A 60-year-old radio broadcast unearthed by Radio 4 describes an aeronautical engineer and glider pilot, Alan Yates, working with Operation Cumulus flying over Bedfordshire, spraying salt which caused a heavy downpour 50 miles away over Staines, in Middlesex. "I'd lived by the river all my life and was used to hearing it roar. And it did about 30 minutes later, and we all cheered.". On this day, August 15 1952, the cloud seeding experiments came to a sudden end, official documents have confirmed. However, silver residue has been discovered in the catchment waters of the river Lyn. The Ministry of Defence has categorically denied knowledge of any cloud-seeding experiments taking place in the UK during early August 1952. "And I remember the great crash that happened at around one in the morning. Not a thing left. "Toasts were drunk to meteorology and it was not until the BBC news bulletin [about Lynmouth] was read later on, that a stony silence fell on the company," said Mr Yates at the time. Squadron Leader Len Otley, who was working on what was known as Operation Cumulus, has told the BBC that they jokingly referred to the rainmaking exercise as Operation Witch Doctor. In 1955 questions were asked in the Commons about the possibilites of liability and compensation claims. The chemicals were provided by ICI in Billingham. There is no mention of cloud seeding. Survivors of the Lynmouth flood called for - but never got - a full investigation into the causes of the disaster. The meteorological office has in the past denied there were any rainmaking experiments conducted before 1955, but a BBC Radio 4 history investigation, to be broadcast tonight, has unearthed documents recently released at the public record office showing that they were going on from 1949 to 1955. 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