Overview
- Investigators are reviewing CCTV footage showing a man who damaged the News 9 NextGen Live Radar power supply and cameras in Oklahoma City, but no arrests have been made.
- Veterans on Patrol leader Michael Meyer has invoked “Operation Lone Wolf” to rally followers to disable radar and satellite systems after alleging weather weapons caused the Texas floods.
- NOAA alerted staff nationwide about threats to NEXRAD installations and is coordinating security upgrades and surveillance with local authorities to protect vital severe-weather detection networks.
- Atmospheric scientists including Matt Lanza have reiterated that cloud seeding cannot trigger floods of the magnitude seen in Texas and that radars only observe weather patterns.
- Conspiracy narratives amplified by right-wing influencers and GOP lawmakers have driven harassment and death threats against meteorologists and cloud-seeding executives such as Rainmaker founder Augustus Doricko.