Judith Curry, a cloud physicist with Georgia Tech tells WSB News, "Studies have shown that it increases the snow pack by 10%."

How does it work? "You drop these little particles, these silver iodide particles into the atmosphere. Then if it encounters cloud drops that are super cooled, that means they're below zero degrees and are too small to have frozen yet, it basically helps them freeze." The drops become heavier and fall eventually changing into rain.

But Curry is skeptical that it will work in Georgia because she says the dynamics of winter weather vs summer weather are significantly different. "In terms of regular convective clouds, no one has ever been able to show a stastically significant increase in rainfall."

Todd Adams with Utah's Division of Water Resources tells the Atlanta Business Chronicle that he doesn't see a reason why it would not work in Georgia. He says his state has seen increases up to 20 percent and he says it's a process that is cheap.

Monique Leclerc, who is a biometeorologist at UGA, expects resurgence in cloud seeding research because of the drought.