Tropical cyclone trio stirs claims of weather manipulation online

As three separate hurricanes neared North America's coastlines over a single October 2026 weekend, social media users suggested they were artificially engineered, with the first deliberately steered to strike Florida's Gulf Coast. But despite their near-simultaneous development, meteorologists say that all three tropical cyclones -- Isaias, Rachel and Simon -- resulted from natural weather conditions, and that no human-made technology is capable of creating or redirecting hurricanes.