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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Andrew Charlton-Perez, professor of meteorology at the University of Reading in the UK.
I guess there are no domestic based meteorologists who can offer expertise here in America.
Bingo. They wouldn’t need to seed areas that were already getting rain. This young 25 year old know it all may not have caused it but he certainly didn’t help it. Plus, there is Central Texas and central Texas so where exactly did he seed and which direction did the clouds float? Kerr County is outside that area but would get flood waters from upstream. What the headlines aren’t reporting is this monster started nowhere near Central Texas in San Angelo and dumped out into the gulf at Houston so that is a HUGE. Check a map to see the distance. One would think seeding would have had to happen at San Angelo or maybe they haven’t admitted to that yet.
We’re within this area and we’ve had an unusually wet Spring so have barely watered the yard. Can’t speak to all of the “southern part of central” Texas but we weren’t in such a serious condition that any seeding was needed. Looking at all the videos, I’ve yet to see anywhere that was parch and bare of vegetation. Someone is lying.
Actually it is the internet nutballs that promote these idiotic theories.
That confused me also.😉
/ to change the climate to fight climate change
cuz, us citizens are starving due to drought. Or so the ncc told me the other day.
Seek help.
Thank you.
Around here, we just call it ‘The Gulf’. ......................
Seeding is done to help local farmers get a little rain.
It’s small scale and dissipates rapidly.
When humans try to change the course of nature no one knows what the result may be.
That is interesting. Looks like they don’t increase the amount of hail but cause smaller sizes.
This will be a battle in the future. It won’t be “seeding” it will be rain “harvesting”. The dry areas will harvest the moisture and leave less for other areas.
Four months of rain fell in a matter of hours. This isn’t just “a little rain.” We can’t keep messing with the weather.
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Seeding soaks up moisture
(Water isn't magically created with a seed)
that would have fallen upon some other little farm.
Imposing drought on one to prevent drought on an another
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
A bait and switch con job fig leaf of weather weaponization.
Cuz GIA !!!
The Gulf of Mexico is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent. Wikipedia
Average depth: 1,615 m (5,299 ft)
Max. depth: 3,750 to 4,384 m (12,303 to 14,383 ft)
Islands: Marquesas Keys, Scorpion Reef, Cayo Levisa
Area: 617,800 mi²
Deepest part: The Sigsbee Deep fws.gov
Basin countries: Cuba; Mexico; United States of America
Location: American Mediterranean Sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
How dare you!
There was an article recently about dust from Africa settling in Florida, after traveling eastward.
To make in rain, for agricultural purposes. Do you want to eat?
I guess you think we shouldn’t build dams?
Seemed pertinent to me. 😊👍. Have a good weekend!
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