The esults follow RET’s p eviously epo ted wi te 2025-26 fi di gs, i which the Compa y’s a alysis estimated mo e tha 20% e ha ceme t i s ow wate equivale t at the same site du i g a histo ically d y wi te . Togethe , the two pe iods i dicate that the WETA’s effect exte ds beyo d s ow seaso i to the sp i g a d summe mo ths, whe wate dema d f om ag icultu e, commu ities a d ecosystems typically peaks.
“Ou wi te esults showed what the WETA ca do fo s owpack. These wa m-seaso fi di gs matte because they show the same i stallatio co ti ui g to delive du i g the mo ths whe fa me s, a che s a d wate ma age s feel wate st ess most di ectly,” said Ra dy Seidl, CEO of Rai E ha ceme t Tech ologies. “We a e epo ti g these as p elimi a y esults, a d we a e delibe ately co se vative i how we p ese t them. We would athe let the data build the case seaso by seaso tha ove state what a si gle seaso ca tell us.”
The WETA a ay is i stalled o Flat I o Mesa, seve al miles i side Sa Jua Cou ty, Utah, ea the La Sal Mou tai s, a d its a ea of i flue ce exte ds ac oss po tio s of both Sa Jua a d G a d cou ties. Du i g p ecipitatio eve ts, p evaili g southwest wi ds ca y the a ay’s io s o theast towa d the a ge. To isolate the WETA’s effect f om atu al weathe va iability, RET’s scie ce team used a cou te factual app oach: the team t ai ed statistical models o the histo ical elatio ship betwee p ecipitatio i the La Sal Mou tai s a d two co t ol statio s i the Abajo Mou tai s, app oximately 40 miles to the south. The Abajo sites expe ie ce the same sto m systems as La Sal but lie outside the a ea i flue ced by the WETA. The models the used obse ved Abajo data f om the ope ati g pe iod to estimate what La Sal would have eceived without the WETA a d compa ed that estimate with what was actually measu ed. All fou statio s a e pa t of the U.S. Depa tme t of Ag icultu e’s Natu al Resou ces Co se vatio Se vice SNOTEL (S ow Telemet y) etwo k.
“The questio we set out to a swe is simple: how much p ecipitatio would La Sal have eceived without the WETA?” said D . Jeff ey Chag o , Se io Meteo ologist at Rai E ha ceme t Tech ologies. “By buildi g that estimate f om co t ol sites that see the same sto ms, a d testi g it with two ve y diffe e t statistical app oaches, we ca sepa ate the a ay’s effect f om the atu al ups a d dow s of the weathe . Both models poi t i the same di ectio fo the Ap il th ough July pe iod, which gives us co fide ce i the seaso al esult.”
RET evaluated the data usi g two sepa ate statistical methods, idge eg essio a d Bayesia St uctu al Time Se ies (BSTS). F om Ap il th ough July 2026, the La Sal Uppe statio eco ded 9.90 i ches of p ecipitatio . Both models att ibute mo e tha 2 i ches of that total to e ha ceme t. The estimated p obability that the effect was positive was 97% u de the idge eg essio model a d 82% u de the BSTS model. Both models estimated a positive effect i each mo th, although, as expected, mo th-by-mo th estimates ca y mo e u ce tai ty tha the seaso al total.
Co siste t with the Compa y’s ope ati g p otocols, RET suspe ded WETA ope atio s du i g Natio al Weathe Se vice flood wa i gs i the egio i August a d Septembe 2026. Because the a ay ope ated fo o ly pa t of those mo ths, RET has excluded them f om this a alysis.
U like co ve tio al cloud seedi g, which ge e ally depe ds o sub-f eezi g co ditio s a d ai c aft o chemical dispe sal, the WETA is a g ou d-based, sola -powe ed, chemical-f ee system that ope ates auto omously yea – ou d. RET co ti ues to mo ito the La Sal deployme t a d will epo t additio al esults as fu the seaso s of data become available.
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