Lightning strike reports alleged weather manipulation - Hoax? Joke? Or perhaps too much consumption of possibly not entirely legal means? The German Meteorological Society's information sheet also mentions this. So is there something to it after all? The report from Lightning strike sounds serious. Weather manipulation itself is indeed a real topic - and, for example, in the USA, it is indeed used in some areas, albeit on a relatively small scale (e.g., to activate weather fronts prematurely to avoid greater disadvantages for agriculture in certain regions). So should someone actually be experimenting with such things over Germany?