Water vapor saturation is exactly what it looks like at Chevron refinery in el segundo, california during day and night and hours at a time. Plus, they are situated on the coastline. So they may very well be playing into this weather warfare game. It's very noisy.

Do we have confirmation, or visual sightings, of the floating platforms? Fascinating presentation...

Does the storm cause the lightning, or does the lightning cause the storm? An arc of plasma through a clear sky would cause immediate condensation of water and rain. Storms are atmospheric manifestations of electromagnetic activity deep inside the earth.