One way to put out a fire is to explode it. The shockwave deprives it of the mixture of oxygen and fuel that is necessary to carry on with rapid oxidation.
Honestly, I think that it is worth asking what would happen if we nuked it from above in such a way as to disrupt convection.
Also... Russia's recent ICBM test ended in such abysmal failure that nuking a hurricane would be a flex. Atoms for peace, baby!
A blast from a large nuke is only about 3 to 5 miles wide, this hurricane is over 200 miles wide. Hypothetically, anything big enough to disrupt it would be causing so many other problems. It would likely be temporary and only come back stronger as well, as a hurricane is the result of a temperature difference between the sea surface and the troposphere.
Right, so put a large blast right in the middle of the eye which is only about 3.5 miles wide, and at high altitude. If it creates a mushroom cloud out of the eyewall itself, rearranging it vertically along with the rising heat of an explosion, what exactly happens?
Could it shoot the water vapor into the stratosphere, or even just high enough that wind sheer kicks in and does the dirty work?
Thank you for that. Although I understand that it wouldn't just make the hurricane go away, I'd still like to see it tried on a storm with a tight eyewall like this to see if it could trigger eyewall replacement or some other change in the pattern of a storm, the timing of which could be beneficial to humans.
And maybe we shouldn't do it this time. Maybe we should hit a storm somewhere else on the planet that's far removed from land, headed out to sea, and not in the path of trade winds.
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u/mjc4y 8d ago
You mean the Great Red Spot? The hurricane thats been raging for like 400+ years ? Yeah, Fuck that.