Pluviculturist:
Noun
pluviculturist (plural pluviculturists)
- A rainmaker; one who tries to induce rainfall. [Wiktionary]
Noted in “Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?” Alec Luhn, NewScientist (16 May 2026; paywall):
We have dreamed of mastering the weather since ancient times, when, according to Greek mythology, Phaethon, the mortal son of the sun god Helios, took the reins of the sun chariot from his father. During the 1930s Dust Bowl, when severe dust storms raged across the American Great Plains, so-called pluviculturists – also known as rain wizards – promised to break droughts with vats of vaporous chemicals. But even when rain did come, a question always lingered: was it due to the rainmaking, or just a change in the weather?
The moisture has to be there in the first place.
