The scientists were eager to examine the storm the following day. However, when they flew to the predicted storm location, they had trouble locating the eye. After some hunting, they found the hurricane center nearly 100 miles (160 km) west of where they expected it to be. To their astonishment, the hurricane had made a 135-degree left turn and was now moving due west. On top of that, it was strengthening! By the afternoon of the 15th, Hurricane King struck Savannah, GA. One person died in the storm surge, and US$2 million in damage was done to Georgia and South Carolina.
The public was outraged that the scientists had caused the storm to swerve into Georgia and threats of lawsuits were thrown about. GE’s case was not helped when the head of its Laboratories, Dr. Irving Langmuir, issued a statement that he was “99% sure” the storm had changed course due to the seeding. Chief of the Weather Bureau, Dr. Francis Reichelderfer, thought differently and appointed three of his weathermen to find a case where a hurricane had followed a similar track but had not been seeded. The case was published, demonstrating that hurricanes could swerve like that without the use of dry ice, and the threats of lawsuits eventually evaporated.
But the public’s early enthusiasm for weather modification slackened. In an era when many science fiction movies featured mad scientists threatening world destruction (or worse) from their hubris, this event seemed to fit the trope. For many years after, no scientist dared mention ‘weather modification’ and ‘hurricane’ in the same sentence. Eleven years later, the National Hurricane Research Project carried out very modest seeding equipment tests in a hurricane but kept things on the “down low” until they were sure the storm wouldn’t pull a swerve on them. It wasn’t until 1962 that the U.S. Weather Bureau and the Department of Defense reached a formal agreement to carry out Project STORMFURY and attempted to seed hurricanes again.
There is no such thing. There are models. They usually run each model 25 to 100 times and then plot all the tracks. The "average of all tracks" is the "predicted one."
These days they run the models every 30 minutes because this can't actually predict anything. It can just give you a list of probabilities.
To their astonishment,
Editorial nonsense. No one who works around hurricanes would be "astonished" by this. "To their astonishment" is precisely the kind of government spoonfed bullshit line that lets you know whoever is using it doesn't know anything about what they're saying.
until they were sure the storm wouldn’t pull a swerve on them.
lol. Yea, the wizard of oz is real, and he is controlling the weather, just to fuck with you.
Pull the stars out of your eyes and think for a minute.
The scientists were eager to examine the storm the following day. However, when they flew to the predicted storm location, they had trouble locating the eye. After some hunting, they found the hurricane center nearly 100 miles (160 km) west of where they expected it to be. To their astonishment, the hurricane had made a 135-degree left turn and was now moving due west. On top of that, it was strengthening! By the afternoon of the 15th, Hurricane King struck Savannah, GA. One person died in the storm surge, and US$2 million in damage was done to Georgia and South Carolina.
The public was outraged that the scientists had caused the storm to swerve into Georgia and threats of lawsuits were thrown about. GE’s case was not helped when the head of its Laboratories, Dr. Irving Langmuir, issued a statement that he was “99% sure” the storm had changed course due to the seeding. Chief of the Weather Bureau, Dr. Francis Reichelderfer, thought differently and appointed three of his weathermen to find a case where a hurricane had followed a similar track but had not been seeded. The case was published, demonstrating that hurricanes could swerve like that without the use of dry ice, and the threats of lawsuits eventually evaporated.
But the public’s early enthusiasm for weather modification slackened. In an era when many science fiction movies featured mad scientists threatening world destruction (or worse) from their hubris, this event seemed to fit the trope. For many years after, no scientist dared mention ‘weather modification’ and ‘hurricane’ in the same sentence. Eleven years later, the National Hurricane Research Project carried out very modest seeding equipment tests in a hurricane but kept things on the “down low” until they were sure the storm wouldn’t pull a swerve on them. It wasn’t until 1962 that the U.S. Weather Bureau and the Department of Defense reached a formal agreement to carry out Project STORMFURY and attempted to seed hurricanes again.
There is no such thing. There are models. They usually run each model 25 to 100 times and then plot all the tracks. The "average of all tracks" is the "predicted one."
These days they run the models every 30 minutes because this can't actually predict anything. It can just give you a list of probabilities.
Editorial nonsense. No one who works around hurricanes would be "astonished" by this. "To their astonishment" is precisely the kind of government spoonfed bullshit line that lets you know whoever is using it doesn't know anything about what they're saying.
lol. Yea, the wizard of oz is real, and he is controlling the weather, just to fuck with you.
Pull the stars out of your eyes and think for a minute.