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Florida Airports Prepare to File Monthly Weather Modification Reports Under New Law

Experts have dismissed any link between cloud seeding and deadly Texas floods; a public portal for reporting suspected weather modification will launch this fall.

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A Southwest airlines passenger jet taxies at the Orlando International Airport, on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. There is push to replace the Central Florida Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) facility. It was built in 1983, and local leaders say it is badly outdated and needs to be replaced…(Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/ Orlando Sentinel)
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Overview

  • Senate Bill 56, signed in June and effective early July, makes it a third-degree felony to release substances into Florida’s atmosphere intended to alter weather, climate, temperature or sunlight intensity.
  • Attorney General James Uthmeier sent letters on July 14–15 directing all public-use airports to begin monthly filings with the Florida Department of Transportation in October or face state funding cuts.
  • Spokespeople for Orlando International, Orlando Executive and other public airports say they conduct no geoengineering or weather modification activities and are preparing to comply with reporting rules.
  • The Florida Department of Environmental Protection will open an online tip portal this October for the public to report suspected violations of the weather modification ban.
  • Meteorologists and federal agencies such as NOAA have long denied ongoing geoengineering efforts, and an Associated Press investigation found no evidence linking cloud seeding to the Texas flash floods.