6 Minute English / Controlling the weather

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Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I m Sam.

And I m Neil. Agh, it s raining again, Sam! I ve had enough! It s been drizzling, that s raining lightly, all week

I know what you mean, Neil. Living in a wet country like Britain I sometimes wish I could push a magic button and stop it raining.

And ironically, people living in hot, dry countries need rain but don t get it. If only we could control the weather

It s funny you should say that, Neil, because you re not the first person to have that idea. In this programme, we ll be hearing about cloud-seeding and geo-engineering , two controversial methods scientists are using to manipulate or change the weather. And as usual, we ll be learning some new vocabulary as well.

Anything that stops it drizzling sounds good to me, Sam.

I hate to disappoint you, Neil, but these ideas involve making more, not less, rain. We ll learn the details soon but first I have a question for you about the wettest place in the world, a village which gets nearly twelve metres of rain a year. But where is it? Is the wettest village on earth found in:

a) Ireland?b) New Zealand? orc) India?

Well, it rains a lot in Ireland doesn t it, so I ll say that s where the wettest place on earth is.