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The U.S. government did experiments decades ago that aimed to weaken hurricanes, not strengthen or create them, according to NOAA records. In 1947, military scientists working with General ...
In 2007, "How to stop a hurricane" [20] explored various ideas such as: Using lasers to discharge lightning in storms which are likely to become hurricanes; Pouring liquid nitrogen onto the sea to deprive the hurricane of heat energy. Creating soot to absorb sunlight and change air temperature and create convection currents in the outer wall.
The hurricane had to have a less than 10 percent chance of approaching inhabited land within a day; [13] it had to be within range of the seeding aircraft; and it had to be a fairly intense storm with a well-formed eye. [9] The primary effect of these criteria was to make possible seeding targets extremely rare. [14]
The newer research tools reach layers in the storm the hurricane hunters aircraft can’t, including the critical space near the surface where the atmosphere and hurricane interact with the ocean.
Tropical cyclone forecasting is the science of forecasting where a tropical cyclone's center, and its effects, are expected to be at some point in the future. There are several elements to tropical cyclone forecasting: track forecasting, intensity forecasting, rainfall forecasting, storm surge, tornado, and seasonal forecasting.
In 1973, the National Hurricane Center introduced the Saffir-Simpson scale, a five-category rating system that classified hurricanes by wind intensity.. At the bottom of the scale was Category 1 ...
Hurricanes are mixed-phase clouds, meaning that liquid and solid water (ice) are both present in the cloud. Typically, liquid water dominates at altitudes lower than the freezing level and solid water at altitudes where the temperature is colder than -40 °C. Between 0 °C and -40 °C water can exists in both phases simultaneously.
We're moving into the peak of a Hurricane season that could be the strongest since 2012, the year Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast.