Tsar Bomba a Hurricane?

The National Weather Service actually put out a press release about this in the 90s.

The TL;DR was "hurricanes are bigger than nukes" and "radioactive hurricanes are worse than the regular kind"

>>31853972
Link, sounds fucking amazing, doomsday weapon even.

it makes it grow.

>>31853990
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html

>>31854011

>During each hurricane season, there always appear suggestions that one should simply use nuclear weapons to try and destroy the storms. Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.

>>31854022
So what they are saying is we need bigger, cleaner nukes. I agree.

>>31854022
>>31854011

FUND IT

>>31854011

>Attacking weak tropical waves or depressions before they have a chance to grow into hurricanes isn't promising either. About 80 of these disturbances form every year in the Atlantic basin, but only about 5 become hurricanes in a typical year. There is no way to tell in advance which ones will develop. If the energy released in a tropical disturbance were only 10% of that released in a hurricane, it's still a lot of power, so that the hurricane police would need to dim the whole world's lights many times a year.

>hurricane police

Mild chuckle, someone's got a sense of humor.

I do have to wonder if weather manipulation will be weaponized in the future. You could in theory with a large enough mirror either a single one or several thousand smaller ones. Heat up the water on a particular spot on the ocean to help intensify a storm. Or to even block out the sun in the path of the storm and sap the heat it needs to grow.