cloud seeding

A community note clarified that, beyond small-scale operations like cloud seeding to create local rain, no human effort can directly manipulate weather events like hurricanes.

Some users claimed weather manipulation techniques like cloud seeding are to blame.

Cloud seeding involves manipulating existing clouds to try to produce more rain, for example in countries with a dry climate.

“When we cloud seed, it is because we do not have enough aerosols or water vapor within the atmosphere to see condensation occur, so we try and force it through cloud seeding,” says Jill Trepanier, an expert in extreme weather phenomena from Louisiana State University.

The method is known as cloud seeding and creates precipitation, thereby modifying weather.