Definition of "weathermaking"

Tell us a little more, please, Dr. von Braun, about weathermaking.

1958, United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services, Inquiry Into Satellite and Missile Programs, page 613

The ritual was barely finished when it began to rain. Naturally the Celts and Germanic peoples also had weathermaking.

2003, Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Christian Rätsch, Wolf-Dieter Storl, Witchcraft Medicine