I've always heard the conspiracy they are controlling the weather. I've always said I wouldn't be surprised.
I was scrolling through tiktok and a video of an airplane with the company name Weather Modification International came up. So I dug further and went down a rabbit hole lol.
There's a council for weather modification too.
This company below states they work with private, state and federal clients as well as work in various counties. The can seed the clouds in three air with a plane or on the ground with flares and other devices.
Apparently they've been doing this since the 70's. Makes me wonder about a lot, the impacts on wildlife and people especially.

There's only a few of these companies but here's the leader.....
http://www.weathermodification.com/cloud-seeding.php






Current jobs of cloud seeding.

Conspiracy theory you say....

LOL, think.i read about cloud seeding with silver nitrate crystals in a Encyclopedia Brown book 50+ years ago

Then why do we have wildfires that burn out of control?

You're making a big assumption that the folks doing the seeding are looking out for you.. yeah I know, that's just more conspiracy.

Don’t think the cloud seeding experiments worked very well.

Back in the 70's they seeded the clouds, and it resulted in a small town being devastated in South Dakota by flash flood waters.

I think you are thinking of "Danny Dunn and the Weather Machine". I read both series around 50 years ago. As a kid, i had good eidetic memory when reading.

Keith

i was there rapid city is not a small town,,, we were in black hawk up on a hill at my uncles house man it rained ,,,, 300 lives lost

Black Hawk was the town I had in mind as be devastated.

Probably, I can't remember last week all that well

I saw where the Russians seeded the clouds to save Moscow from the Chernobyl fallout.

We had some farmers in our county and a neighboring county pay for some cloud seeding during the drought in 1988 here. Very poor outcome. One of the things that was not thought about much then was when you make rain from high clouds during warm low humidity type weather a lot of the rain evaporates before it hits the ground. They may have worked on that aspect in the last 35 years.
I agree with some other posters and am not into the weather conspiracy camp.

Bryce

They have been cloud seeding around our area for a few years now, Southern Wy and Northern Co.

I live in one of the heaviest cloud seeding areas in the country. The Grand Mesa has close to 20 seeders around it. last winter these seeders added approximately 30% of the snow fall. With out them we would struggle in the agricultural business.

Must have got the idea from Sky King? (Scary part is as a kid, we were starved enough for entertainment we actually watched that)