Lakes across Central Texas are once again dealing with high water levels after recent rains and floods caused them to quickly rise.

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.

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.

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.

FOX 26 meteorologist Remiesha Shade takes a look at what caused the devastating flooding in Central Texas over the weekend and when they could finally see some relief.

Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier jumped in to amplify the misinformation — citing a newly passed Florida law banning loosely defined “weather modification” practices that climatologists say have nothing to do with increasingly severe weather events.

Texas (KAUZ) - Governor Greg Abbott joined Chief of the National Guard Bureau General Steven Nordhaus to receive a briefing and survey damage from recent severe flooding and heavy rainfall in Kerr County.

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.

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Rescue crews in Texas kept a wary eye on river levels Monday, hoping to resume the search for people still missing from catastrophic flooding that pummeled the central part of the state earlier this month and killed at least 132 people.