Do you think they are modifying the weather?

I know they modify the weather some because it's been in the books for half a century but is all of this extreme rain a new level of weather modification? I've been alive for 47 years and can't ever remember a stretch of years where we've had this level of rainfall like we've had the last two. Sure, we always get storms but it's the amount of rain that's falling that I've taken notice of. When we get rain, it's not just the all day drizzle for a couple of days in a row but instead it's downpours almost every time. The mountains of North Carolina flooded. Now the land bordering a desert is flooding. Do you think this is the result of actual weather modification or do you think this is just a natural cycle?