As conspiracy theories point to cloud seeding as a possible cause of the Texas floods, here’s a look at the science behind ...

To explain cloud seeding, first you need to know how clouds form. Clouds form when water vapor and gas rises, cools and condenses into liquid water droplets. Those droplets collide and condense on ...

Did cloud seeding have anything to do with the recent devastating floods that extended from the Hill Country into Central ...

A California-based cloud-seeding company, Rainmaker, has become the focus of conspiracy theories following the recent deadly floods in Texas ...

Amid the tragedy of recent flash floods in central Texas, conspiracy theories about "cloud seeding" practices have gained traction on social media, fueled by prominent U.S. political figures.

Cloud seeding wasn’t part of this storm. The Kerr County area experienced an extraordinary rainfall event, with 10 to 13 inches of rain falling in just a few hours on July 4.

It’s Not New. I learned about cloud seeding as a young graduate student at Florida State and even worked with one of the early pioneers at NASA, Dr. Joanne Simpson, who studied it early in her ...

A firefighting helicopter drops water on the Palisades fire near Mandeville Canyon and Encino, California, on January 11, 2025. Inset, Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks in September 2024.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Cloud seeding is an idea that’s often thrown around as a solution to our state’s drought, but manipulating the weather to make it rain might not be as effective as once ...

Rainmaker did carry out a cloud seeding mission over south-central Texas on July 2, 2025, the company's CEO confirmed. But meteorologists said cloud seeding was not responsible for the powerful ...

While the concept of cloud seeding can sound like the stuff of a distant sci-fi future, the technology has been in use since the 1950s. And since then, it has gone largely unchanged.

Texas flooding wasn’t caused by cloud seeding, meteorologists said the flooding came from a tropical storm’s intense rain hitting a flood-prone region.