Woulda gone with

I appreciate a healthy dose of skepticism, but this isn't exactly a secret or something I just made up. Here's an article about a BC company working on drone swarms fighting wildfires with a continuous supply of small water drops that simulates rain https://dronelife.com/2025/09/25/drone-firefighting-technology-fire-swarm-2/ Here's a proof of concept of the acoustic firefighting tech on a drone: https://dronelife.com/2016/04/17/flying-saucer-drone-use-sound-waves-battle-blazes/ Another article about the acoustic tech: https://djmag.com/news/former-nasa-engineer-develop-tech-fight-wildfires-low-frequency-soundwaves And a paper on acoustic firefighting tech being implemented with drones: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311916.2025.2602277

That kind of looks more like the traditional Nino pattern you'd expect in summer. Thing is, we haven't really been able to maintain that regime for more than a couple weeks before flipping to massive pig ridges.

This heat wave means business. Extreme Heat Warning began Sunday and has been extended until Thursday. Might get extended again. Today was the 4th day in a row with over 90° and over 100° heat index. Today was officially the hottest with a high of 96° and a peak heat index of 106°. This is from my weather station btw....not MSP. Local met has forecast highs in the 90s all the way til Sunday. Zero rain as well.

I can see fire departments using these for smaller situations. It’s going to take a bit of different tech to dive into some extremely turbulent updrafts, but I don’t think that will be a hard problem to solve.