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Experts Reject Cloud Seeding Theory in Texas Floods as Greene Proposes Felony Weather Bill

Scientific consensus attributes the floods to storm remnants, shifting debate to proposed weather modification legislation.

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Flood waters left debris including vehicles and equipment scattered in Louise Hays Park on July 5, 2025 in Kerrville, Texas.
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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.