Overview
- Meteorologists and independent fact-checkers have unanimously found no evidence that cloud seeding could trigger storms of the scale that killed over 100 people in Central Texas.
- Rainmaker Technology’s CEO confirmed the company’s last cloud seeding flight occurred on July 2 outside the flooded area and that all operations were halted before the flash floods began.
- Cloud seeding is regulated under Texas’s 1967 Weather Modification Act and typically only increases rainfall by up to 20% in existing clouds.
- Chief meteorologists traced the flooding to moisture from Tropical Storm Barry and remnants of Hurricane Flossie converging over Central Texas’s Flash Flood Alley.
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a bill to make unauthorized weather modification a federal felony, drawing on recent bans in Florida and Tennessee.