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No, weather modification did not cause the deadly flash floods in Texas

TEXAS HILL COUNTRY, TEXAS, JUL 9 – Officials and experts say cloud seeding cannot produce extreme rainfall and did not cause the deadly floods that killed over 100 people, with 30,000 warned during the event.

  • Flash floods devastated central Texas during the Fourth of July weekend in 2025, resulting in more than 100 fatalities and extensive damage.
  • On July 2, Rainmaker Technology Corporation conducted cloud seeding activities over south-central Texas; however, these efforts were not connected to the subsequent flooding.
  • Experts and meteorologists attributed the flooding to remnants of Tropical Storm Barry combining with Gulf moisture and terrain, producing extreme rainfall up to 4 to 6 inches per hour.
  • Andrew Dessler called claims linking seeding to floods "complete nonsense" and Dev Niyogi said it was "extremely unlikely," while Rainmaker’s CEO stated the company suspended operations before the flooding.
  • Authorities and experts refuted weather modification theories, emphasizing that cloud seeding only modestly increases precipitation and cannot create storms of this magnitude.
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U.S. News broke the news in New York, United States on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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