Experts say outlandish claims of weather manipulation are hindering disaster preparedness and emergency response.

Unfounded rumors linking an extreme weather event to human attempts at weather modification are again spreading on social ...

In the aftermath of deadly flash floods that swept through Texas Hill Country in July 2025, some people online suggested the ...

While looking into Birmingham, Alabama, chief meteorologist James Spann ‘s new weather network, we saw that he felt compelled ...

Viral posts promoted false claims that cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, played a role in the devastation.

Two clouds were targeted and dissipated later that day in the cloud seeding operation Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier ...

Cloud seeding could not have caused the disaster because the process increases precipitation only by a small amount, experts ...

Despite conspiracy theories, there's no way that cloud seeding operations days before the storm could have influenced the ...

Conspiracy theories about weather modification programs are surging online amid a torrent of misinformation following tragic ...

For years, scientists have experimented with engineering techniques that can safely modify rainfall. But experts say the technology isn't capable of causing extreme, sudden flooding.

Cloud-seeding was blamed for a devastating flash flood in South Dakota in 1972, though a scientific review determined the ...

There are reports some cloud seeding occurred a few days before the Texas flash flood. But it’s important to understand that ...