Fact check: Debunking weather-modification claims

Advanced radar technology helps forecasters more accurately track, assess and warn the public of approaching high-impact weather. Credit: NOAA

CLAIM: The government is creating, strengthening and/or steering hurricanes into specific communities. 
FACT:  No technology exists that can create, destroy, modify, strengthen or steer hurricanes in any way, shape or form. All hurricanes, including Helene and Milton, are natural phenomena that form on their own due to aligning conditions of the ocean and atmosphere. 
CLAIM: NOAA is involved with projects like HAARP and SCOPEX that modify weather. 
FACT:  NOAA is not associated with these projects, neither of which can modify the weather.