A local lawmaker in Washington, DC, has apologized for sharing a video based on a conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers control the weather, wrote BBC.

Councilman Trayon White Sr posted a video of snow flurries on Friday and warned of "climate manipulation".

He blamed the Rothschilds, a famous Jewish business dynasty, who are a target of anti-Semitic conspiracies.

Mr White apologized for his comments on social media and said he "did not intend to be anti-Semitic".

"I really do apologize," he said on Twitter. "I work very closely with the Jewish community and never want to offend anyone, especially with Anti-Semitic remarks."

The lawmaker said his Jewish friends were helping him realise the way his comments said in the Facebook video were rooted in anti-Semitic thought that dates back centuries.

"I see I should not have said that after learning from my colleagues," he said.

The video, posted on Facebook on Friday morning, is shot through the windshield of a car driving in downtown Washington.

"Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y'all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation," he is heard saying.

"And DC keep talking about, 'We a resilient city.' And that's a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful."

Conspiracy theorists allege that the Rothschilds, in conjunction with the famed American Rockefeller family, use technology to secretly manipulate the weather.