Fun Topic: Ways to Prohibit Hurricane Formation:

[gatorcane]

My vote:

Drag icebergs down from one of the poles and place them thoughout the Atlantic and Caribbean chilingl the ocean so they can't form lol.

Any other ideas welcome!

[Derek Ortt]

totally impractical. Not enough energy dissipation


when will people learn that hurricanes are necessary for the transport of heat from the warm tropics to the upper latitudes?

[gatorcane]

Derek, I was just joking...but the NHC website has some examples of what has been tried in the past. For example, one idea was to put a thin layer of some substance over the ocean surface so that it would prevent heat from rising...obviously that wouldn't work. lol.

[Andrew92]

Yah, and if we tried to destroy hurricanes forever, then we'd just have some other natural disasters to worry about. In fact, I recall once hearing that destroying hurricanes would end one war but might start several more. Something similar to that degree anyway.

Destroying hurricanes is impractical. I wish we didn't have hurricanes, but we do, it's a fact of life. We can only prepare for them.

-Andrew92

[The Big Dog]

Well, the Dyn-o-Mat guy is still around I'm sure. And then there's something about an oil slick -- not sure how that works. And of course everyone's favorite -- nuke 'em!

[Derek Ortt]

the thin ocean layer likely won't work due to the wave action, also, part of whateevr would be evaporated in all liklihood, meaning the heat content from the ocean would still be fluxed into the storm.

Only way I could think of, and this would be to create convergence about 100km or greater from the eye. This may enable the creation of a secondary eye wall farther out than would normally be expected; thus, the storm would weaken more during th eye wall replacement cycle than normal

[Scorpion]

I think towing icebergs is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. We could impact major climate cycles by chilling the water, not to mention destroying the ecology of the ocean.

[gatorcane]

Yeah I do to, that's why I ended my comment with a LOL. That is the dumbest thing I have heard of. For god sake people, do you really think towing icebergs into the Atlantic Ocean is going to help. No f*cking way...there's too much water to cover and it would be more expensive than taking that money and using it to recover the costs of a landfalling major hurricane! Even if we pulled it off, there would be major global climatic ramifications and marine life would suffer greatly....I am totally opposed to the idea..

[boca]

Put my mother-in-law in the eye that might weaken it or it might send the storm in my direction.

[x-y-no]

I remember there was a guy back in the '80s some time who was going on about building towers (kind of like the cooling towers at a nuclear plant, but several miles tall) along the coast. His idea was that convection driven by solar heating of the towers would change the steering paterns and keep storms off the coast.

Somehow, I don't think he appreciated just how much energy there is in the atmospheric system.

My immediate thought was what happens when the first major storm comes along and knocks a few of those towers down on top of some suburbs.

Jan

[HURAKAN]

My vote:

Drag icebergs down from one of the poles and place them thoughout the Atlantic and Caribbean chilingl the ocean so they can't form lol.

Any other ideas welcome!

Then Florida wouldn't have to worry about hurricanes but how to survive underwater!!!!

[Ixolib]

A huge flying snowball stand, dropping shaved ice on the core 24/7.

[gatorcane]

All of this is great, I am getting some good laugh in here! LOL.

[cyclonaut]

Hurricanes are a big part of my life!I think the Earth would agree with me in wanting to see them hang around for a while.

[gatorcane]

Just think if there were no hurricanes, I wouldn't be chatting with you right now about this...lol...Why don't we send a bunch of U.S. military planes and some large fan generators. We'll hang them from below the planes. This would essentially generate the wind sheer that would be needed to thwart development. lol.

[Scorpion]

How about dropping nukes in the center of them to maybe dissipate the inner core.

[Anonymous]

Not a good idea...it might weaken the storm, but then you have a RADIOACTIVE Hurricane. What's worse? A 10-mile wide core holding 140 mph winds....or an 80 mph radioactive storm that spread radioactivity from Florida to Ohio, to Canada?

[DoctorHurricane2003]

I've heard more stupid things.

(Actual things I've heard)

-Ask the aliens to beam the hurricanes up or destroy them with their laser weapons.
-Drag a giant curtain across the Atlantic so they can't pass.
-Put a roof over the Atlantic so that it can't warm up.
-Shoot giant snowballs at the hurricane with a big gun.
-Break up the clouds with a giant spoon. (*sigh*)

And the worst one (as if the alien one wasn't bad enough):

-Stand on the shore and ask the hurricane if it would kindly leave us alone.

[gatorcane]

This is great! That last post was so funny

[Scorpion]

How about sending every single cargo plane we have and pack them full of ice and dump them into the hurricane.