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...
This is so dumb. They dropped 50 lbs of dry ice on the very edge clouds of a Category 3 Hurricane that was around 100 miles across?
There's no way in hell that caused any deviation in the storm. A lot of Hurricanes will produce hail in mid-summer in Miami.