Overview

• Social media posts have falsely linked a Rainmaker Technology cloud seeding flight on July 2 near Runge, Texas, to the deadly flash floods in Kerr County on July 4.
• Meteorologists including Travis Herzog and Matthew Cappucci stress cloud seeding can only boost existing rainfall by up to 20 percent and cannot create storms of the scale that caused the disaster.
• Company CEO Augustus Doricko published flight logs confirming the seeding of two small clouds that dissipated within hours, and operations did not resume in the flood zone on July 3 or 4.
• NOAA reports and federal regulations require a ten-day advance notice for cloud seeding, and Rainmaker filed its activity report in February as mandated.
• Lawmakers such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have proposed legislation to criminalize unauthorized weather modification following the flood misattribution.