Can we dissipate a storm by bombing the eye-of-the storm?
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They are doing work with lasers on effecting weather and often people have 'cannons' for hail with the idea that the sound waves will break up the ice. I'm not sure about bombing the storm. Storms are created by a range of factors that would not be all effected by a bomb. The website is complicated but talks about the use of high frequency waves to achieve this. most military applications are to do with clearing fog etc...to allow for a strategic advantage.
530433
Ive been through countless hurricanes. They are so amazing to watch, but hard to see them through windows that you cant get too close to. anyway, live the dream man, much success in your endeavor!
608235
That would be low pressure. The center, or eye, of a hurricane always has low pressure.
21817
I could tell you the answer, but wouldn't you rather be a storm chaser?
23977
It is possible but it is quite rare. Here's why.\n\nA thunderstorm depends on rapidly rising  moist warm  air to produce the effects we see. These effects are: large volumes of rain in a short period of time, strongly gusting winds, hail, and of course lightning. When conditions aren't right (surface air is too cool and dry) it is impossible for air at the surface to rise fast and high enough to create a thunderstorm cell. Basically in winter the air is not warm or moist enough to produce thunderstorm cells.\n\nFor a deeper explanation check the source site.
23626
Yes, but it will have a worst effect after. Who ever survives the next ice-age will endour horrid lung problems from all the hydrogen elements emersed in the air by the melted ice. Also, it hasn't been proven that the ozone will be stable after the "big storm". If the ozone isn't stable it will cause horrid burns on your skin and can give you a 1st degree burn in less than 5 min. Also all the diseses that will break out from people that drink unclean water.
255179
Theoretically, a hurricane could be aborted by rapid, extensive cooling of the ocean underneath (we are far away from being able to do something like that, but we're talking theoretical).  The force of a hurricane equals a nuclear bomb every 15 seconds or so-and covers thousands of square miles.  Dropping a nuclear bomb into a hurricane would likely have almost no effect on it.  If there were an effect, it would likely increase the force of the hurricane, not decrease it, since it would increase the amount of energy and heat available.
855265
Maybe if we launch a nuke near where tectonic plates are and cause an earthquake, then a tsunami...That's severe. But if you're talking about everyday activities like watering the flowers, I don't think that can contribute to servere weather such as hurricanes.
1130082
The eye is possibly the most recognizable feature of tropical cyclones. In strong tropical cyclones, the eye is a circular area of light winds and clear skies, surrounded on all sides by a towering vertical wall of thunderstorms, known as the eyewall. In weaker tropical cyclones, the eye is less defined, and can be covered by the central dense overcast, which is the area of high, thick clouds which show up brightly on satellite pictures. Rain may even fall heavily in the eye of a disorganized storm. In all storms, however, the eye is the location of the storm's minimum barometric pressure: the area where the atmospheric pressure at sea level is the lowest.[1][2]
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There is an incredible amount of energy in a hurricane.\n\n"A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x10^13 watts, and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes."\n\nBy comparison, the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 was 0.013 megatons. Multiply that times about 700, and that's equivalent to the energy released every 20 minutes by a hurricane.\n\nNow you have an idea of how powerful these storms are.  There is just no known way to dissipate that much energy.
480840
not necessarily. maybe the rain and t-storms calm u down. my mom sometimes rolls down the window like that as long as it aint raining too hard. my sister too, but not me, i keep everything shut down during a t-storm just for safety. but if doing what u do makes u calm then keep doing so. we all have diff. ways of calming down. rain can be calming too :-)
1071536
They are called extra-tropical systems. An extra-tropical system would not normally have hurricane characteristics, such as an eye, therefore would not be called a hurricane...unless it developed into a warm core system. Easy, huh?
1051141
Atmospheric interference.
902400
You could do it the risky way, by sailing to the edge and hoping the current pulling water off the edge doesn't get you, too.  I don't recommend this.  The young men in my village (I live on an island close to the edge of the world) used to do this on dares, until we lost three young husbands and twelve manlings on an ill-fated drunken bet.  There was such a shortage of men we had to dress some of the maids in armour and set them to the oars during our next raid, just to have enough people!\n\n(Some people are so ignorant -- I'm still chortling.  Next I bet your friend Eric Halfwit will tell you that thunder is created by something soft like clouds rather than by Thor's mighty hammer!  Or that the sun is made of flaming air, rather than the shining Goddess Sol, fleeing across the sky from the wolf Skoll.)\n\nThe safer way to prove the earth is not round is by digging a hole deep enough that you come to the bottom of the earth, then you can stick your heads through and show him how the earth rests on the back of four giant elephants.  The bottom of the earth has no hills or mountains, so it's easier to see its flatness, too.\n\nPlus, how could it be a pig's bladder?  Wouldn't it pop and fly out of its place in the center of the universe the first time somebody dug a well and punctured its surface?  Hasn't Eric Halfwit thought of this yet?\n\nThis all shows that too much thinking is dangerous.  We should be making babies and pillaging villages -- ideas like that may anger the gods and ruin next year's crops. . . in the villages we raid.
1183282
NO.\n\nIt is only an effect of a cloud being illuminated by a distant lightning flash.
501528
Yes, it does. For one thing, I've seen it hit the ocean and cause a scatter/ripple effect in the water. It was actually very cool.\n\nSecondly, why do you think people always tell you to get out of the water when there is a lightening storm overhead?
1085604
go to yahoo search.....put in "storm chasing "(lots of sites).