The statement comes after several Republicans questioned if the government was steering hurricanes following back-to-back storms.

Almost four weeks after Hurricane Helene and just two weeks after Hurricane Milton caused devastation across the Southeast, scientists are squashing some weather claims.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released an article clarifying facts in the midst of recent theories conspiring that the government or other agencies can control or modify the weather.

No one creates or steers hurricanes; the technology does not exist.” The purpose of the communiqué was to provide “science-based facts and information in response” to “some of the inaccurate claims circulating online.

Debunking weather modification claims” to counter falsehoods across social media about the agency’s capacities, actions and motives around hurricanes. The falsehoods — which proliferated as Hurricane Milton was approaching Florida’s Gulf Coast on Oct.