The forecast comes on the heels of heavy rain in Louisiana and Mississippi on Thursday, major and disruptive flooding that forced a state of emergency in New Jersey, and deadly flash floods in Texas that took the lives of at least 135 people, including children at a Christian girls’ camp.

Unfounded rumors linking an extreme weather event to human attempts at weather modification are again spreading on social media. It is not plausible that available weather modification techniques caused or influenced the July 4 flash flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas.

Heavy rains fell quickly in the predawn hours of Friday in the Texas Hill Country, causing the Guadalupe River to rise 26 feet in just 45 minutes.

While looking into Birmingham, Alabama, chief meteorologist James Spann ‘s new weather network, we saw that he felt compelled to get on social media recently to explain away conspiracy theories surrounding the deadly Texas floods that killed more than 100 people earlier this month.

“If you’ve never seen water rise in front of you in minutes, it’s hard to conceive of how quickly that can happen—and how quickly your life and property can be at risk,” said Rachel Hogan Carr, executive director of the Nurture Nature Center, a nonprofit focused on flood-risk communication.

Here's what to know about the deadly flooding, the colossal weather system that drove it and ongoing efforts to identify victims.

Some people online suggested cloud seeding conducted by the company Rainmaker Technology Corporation was to blame for deadly flooding in Texas.

The death toll from the catastrophic Texas floods has risen to at least 82 — with dozens more people missing and the number of those killed only expected to rise as the Lone Star State sifts

Warming ocean temperatures and warmer air mean there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere to fuel extreme downpours like those that struck Texas during the July 4 weekend.

In the aftermath of deadly flash floods that swept through Texas Hill Country in July 2025, some people online suggested the storms may have been manufactured through a weather modification technique called cloud seeding.

A Texas man tried saving people at the RV park he owns during the Texas flood disaster nearly two weeks ago, but watched many people — including a family of four — slip away.