Thermonuclear device to destroy hurricanes

[Traveler]

Hello All,

I hope this is the right place to post this.

I’ve always wondered about this. What will a Thermonuclear device do to a hurricane if detonated in it's eye?

Thanks in advance.

 

[mgb_phys]

Annoy it.
Hurricanes have rather a lot of energy, a tiny little weedy H-bomb isn't going to do much to it.

 

[davee123]

The device would probably blow up.

The hurricane, as stated, would probably be almost totally unaffected. It would have *more* of an effect if you detonated it at the strongest part of the hurricane, because it would partially create a countering wind that would create a small ripple in the hurricane where the wind wouldn't be as strong.

Your typical hurricane is what, between 300 and 700 km of radius? A nuclear device would affect a pretty wide range with radiation, but probably only the blast radius would affect the wind. A 20 megaton bomb might affect a radius of something like 47 km? Hardly enough to disrupt a large hurricane.

DaveE