It looks like the Philadelphia Inquirer was making an attempt to explain the unusual Spring weather the Delaware Valley had been enduring since the equinox.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/weather-tornadoes-philadelphia-floods-thunderstorms-record-rains-spring-solstice-20190620.html
I offered an explanation in https://www.bucksafa11.org/2014/02/14/making-weather-pay/ which you are welcome to click on once more although if you want to get right to it, here’s some meat from http://archive.gao.gov/f0902a/110752.pdf
…In a June 30, 1978, report to the Secretary of Commerce, the’Weather Modification ,o3DPV Advisory Board concluded that the out-
-stand’ing characteristic of the Federal Government’s weather modification organization is that no one is in charge and the results of fragmentation are clearly unsatisfactory….
More information to ponder intents and meanings from…
Pardon me, old chap… do you have the recent corn prices?
https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/why-futures/welcome-to-corn-futures.html