70th Anniversary of the first hurricane seeding experiment
On the afternoon of October 13, 1947, an Air Force B-17 aircraft penetrated a hurricane 415 miles (667 km) east of Jacksonville and dumped several pounds of crushed dry ice into the storm, just to see what would happen. This was the first attempt to modif...
Wow! 1950s was decade with the most hurricanes on record.
Wonder if they were doing a bunch of testing in those days