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Weatherwatch: discredited but still popular, enthusiasts keep faith in hail cannon David Hambling © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images Mysterious booms shaking the small town of Hammonton in New Jersey in December were traced to a backyard attempt at cloudbusting. Construction worker Rob Butkowski built a device resembling a giant horn to fire shockwaves into the sky, aiming to prevent hail damaging his vines. The device mixes acetylene and oxygen and detonates them in an ear-splitting explosion, which the 5-metre horn directs upwards. Techni...

Local legislators have thrown their weight behind a measure to provide New Jersey residents … Butkowski’s cone-shaped cannon blasts a shock wave into the sky that travels at the speed of sound and breaks apart clouds, preventing them from forming hail stones. The noise from the 16-foot-long cannon also scares away birds that sometimes damage the 300 grape vines Butkowski grows on his 5-acre property on the outskirts of town. Best of all, the cannon is equipped with a Bluetooth speaker, so in addition to shock waves it can also blast Butkowski’s favorite AC/DC songs. “It’...

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autoevolution 14 Dec 2020, 7:34 UTC · by 5 photos The silver lining to this horrible year was perhaps the fact that it pushed us so far out of our comfort zone, forcing us to adapt and discover new skills and talents. Take, for example, Rob Butkowski from Hammonton, New Jersey, who works in construction but also has his own vineyard. Wanting to protect his vineyard from bad weather and preying birds, he created his own hail cannon at home. And it is the most amazing and terrifying thing. The New York Post reports that neighbors have been complaining about a mysterious booming sound th...

Residents in New Jersey have reported loud booming sounds that were apparently so loud, one resident felt their entire house would be rocked off its foundation. Is this part of the same phenomenon that's happened over New York state, including the Catskills, the past two weeks? In those cases, the loud explosions in the air were caused by a series of small meteors. Was this yet another case of a space rock disintegrating in the Earth;'s atmosphere? Or is it something else? The NY Post is reporting that the booms began being heard in Mullica Township in Atlantic County. Residents say the soun...