• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A lot.

    Problem is… don’t think of a hurricane as “a thing”. It’s really not, it’s a manifestation of a larger system. It’s the result of something happening, and that thing that is happening is ongoing.

    In the case of a tropical storm, it would depend on when you caught it and how big it was. If it’s over warm enough water, then it’s constantly being created. If you flipped some kind of magic switch that Thanos-blinked it out of existence, it would start coming back, because what is making it is still there.

    To really get rid of it, permanently, you would need to cool the ocean underneath it off. Nukes can’t do that. I suppose you could try to boil the whole ocean away with nukes, but I have a feeling that would make the storm far worse.

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      1 year ago

      I wonder if a large enough bomb, nuke or not, would create enough heat to mess up that balance, or just move enough air in the blast that it dissipates.

      Obviously this would have to be a establish hurricane about to make landfall. But it would be cool as hell to watch.

      Vote me for president, ill find out

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        1 year ago

        Heat and moving the air out of the way (lowering the pressure) would make it stronger. Those are two of the three building blocks of a hurricane. The third being moisture.

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      To really get rid of it, permanently, you would need to cool the ocean underneath it off.

      Or heat up the upper athmosphere. The hurricane does not feed of the warm ocean per se, it feeds of the temperature difference from top to bottom.

      Well, you would still need a ton of nukes to accomplish it, and you would still have massive fallout wherever the system moves, but that way you at least have a chance of accomplishing something.

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        1 year ago

        Right, because as the air cools the moisture condenses. No cooling air, no condensation. Cool stuff, thank you for the correction.