In some cultures, there are individuals that possess the ability of rainmaking.

In the Christian areas the Defteras (learned clerics of the Orthodox Christian Church) believed to have the wisdom to arrest the rain, to bring hail to farms of individuals who refuse to comply with religious rules as well as to bring more rains when the rainy season fell short of giving the usual amount of rain needed for growing cereals.

Since the 1940s, cloud seeding has been used to change the structure of clouds by dispersing substances into the air, potentially increasing or altering rainfall. In spite of experiments dating back to at least the start of the 20th century, however, there is much controversy surrounding the efficacy of cloud seeding, and evidence that cloud seeding leads to increased precipitation on the ground is highly equivocal. One difficulty is knowing how much precipitation might have fallen had any particular cloud not been seeded. Operation Popeye was a US military rainmaking operation to increase rains over Vietnam during the Vietnam War in order to slow Vietnamese military truck activity in the region. Rainmaking is not climate engineering, which seeks to alter climate, but a form of weather modification, as it seeks only to change local weather.

In many societies around the world, rain dances and other rituals have been used to attempt to increase rainfall. Some Native Americans used rain dances extensively. European examples include the Romanian ceremonies known as paparuda and caloian. Some United States farmers also attempt to bring rain during droughts through prayer. These rituals differ greatly in their specifics, but share a common concern with bringing rain through ritual and/or spiritual means. Typical of these ceremonies was then-governor of Georgia Sonny Perdue's public prayer service for rain, in 2007.

Contemporary Jewish liturgy includes prayers for rain, seasonally, as a part of the morning, afternoon, and evening, daily amidah prayer, during mid-Autumn to mid-Spring. During Summer, this prayer is changed from the prayer for rain, to a prayer for dew.

In Igboland from what I have witnessed, these set of rainmaking individuals will intentionally precipitate the weather using orthodox means to induce rain especially during open events like funeral, wedding, crusade etc.

What is there benefit ?

What will happen when there is contrasting occurance ?

Can traditional orthodox method surpass technological means (used by construction companies ?

Can Rainmakers really control the weather or is it just sheer luck ?

What incentive is there to engaging your debate? Since 2017 you have posted here only 108 times. What’s to say you won’t disappear and leave my opinion hanging?