Posted on 07/11/2025 6:26:11 AM PDT by bitt
The CEO of a weather modification technology company has confirmed that cloud seeding operations took place in Texas just two days before the deadly central Texas flood occurred.
NBC News reported that Augustus Doricko, the CEO of Rainmaker, a weather modification company, said that planes had released silver iodide in the atmosphere in Texas two days prior to the fatal floods that have claimed over 100 lives.
Doricko claims the cloud seeding operations did not cause the flooding in Texas.
WATCH:
NBC News Confirms Cloud Seeding Operations Were Conducted Just Two Days Before Texas Flood.
CEO of Rainmaking Technology Company Claims The Flood In Texas Is Not Due To Cloud Seeding pic.twitter.com/DG2vOgUro0
— Anthony Scott (@AnthonysTown) July 8, 2025
Per Bloomberg:
According to Doricko, Rainmaker flew a brief 20-minute cloud seeding mission in south-central Texas last Tuesday, but suspended all operations that same day due to abnormally high moisture content in the air. The two clouds seeded during the Tuesday flight would have dissipated after a few hours and would have had no effect on the floods several days later, he added.
Cloud seeding involves using chemicals, often particles of silver iodide, to trigger the formation of ice crystals or droplets from water that’s already present in a cloud but not being efficiently turned into rain. Though the technique has been studied for decades, it remains difficult to predict the additional rainfall that cloud seeding operations can generate, with estimates ranging widely from 0% to 20%.
What’s clear is that the technique would not have been able to generate the record-breaking rainfall seen in Texas. So much rain fell that the Guadalupe River at Kerrville, one of the epicenters of the floods, rose some 26 feet (8 meters) in less than an hour overnight on Friday.
“Based on the meteorological evidence, the Texas floods were caused by a powerful natural weather system, with thunderstorms fed by very moist air from the warm Gulf of Mexico,” said Andrew Charlton-Perez, professor of meteorology at the University of Reading in the UK.
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Old news at this point.
While I tend to concur with analyses which makes it a stretch to connect the cloud seeding with a weather event 2 days later, the larger question continues to be evaded:
Why is such activity continuing to be funded???
Is cloud seeding just another scam money maker from the Climate Cult ?
I haven’t seen a blue sky all summer, just a lot of grey clouds and chem trails.
PS you can’t post photos on the tag line. Just sayin’.
Flash Flood Alley earned its name long before cloud seeding.
Still, I don’t like it.
It is obvious the cloud seeding operation had nothing to do with the floods which occurred. The cloud seeding happened two days earlier. The wind a few thousand feet up appears to have been about 20 mph. In 48 hours, the particulates used for cloud seeding would have moved about a thousand miles away, certainly several hundred miles, or precipitated out of the air.
Air moves. It does not stay in the same place for long.
Nature
Operation Popeye, Vietnam
Thanks,as a weather officer in Vietnam I knew about this operation but was not involved.
Larry
I agree. It’s amazing that in the so called “information age” there can be so many brain dead conspiracy theories.
Lawyers are huddling to see how much profit can be made on this disaster.
Clouds have been seeded since the 1950s. It reportedly increases rainfall by 5%-15%, and reportedly can decrease hail.
Read post 27
To decrease hail.
https://www.britannica.com/technology/weather-modification/Modification-of-other-weather-phenomena
Anyone who still calls it the Gulf of Mexico can’t be taken seriously.
Save it for the jury I'm sure you'll be facing. If someone hadn't thought of filing a civil lawsuit yet, they will now.
It’s been happening since the 1950s.
https://www.library.nd.gov/statedocs/WaterCommission/SeedingQ&A2010Web20140214.pdf
A nice tinfoil hat will protect you from the epic floods caused by cloud seeding.
What is a Gulf of Mexico?
Believe there was no effect?? Well, they stopped seeding because there was so much moisture to start with...
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