As Central Texas mourns the lives lost during catastrophic flash floods over the Fourth of July weekend, experts are working to quash a surge of misinformation blaming weather modification for the disaster.

Conspiracy theorists have blamed the devastating flash floods in Texas on cloud seeding, a technique used to chemically induce rainfall. Scientists have dismissed the theories as baseless. A DW Fact Check.

You can read the latest on the situation in Texas here, but we will try to break down the details of what unfolded in the wee hours of Friday morning, July 4th. There were several weather features at work during the week leading up to the catastrophic flooding that all worked in tandem to create this nightmare situation.