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Re: Project storm fury really a failure?
      Mon Jul 11 2005 07:46 PM

There actually was a lot of data gained about hurricanes that we did not have before during Stormfury -- consider it a secondary benefit of the project.

The seeding and planned weakening aspect of the program, the primary objective, was a complete failure. And...seeding, if it worked, could change a storm's path. Making a storm weaker makes it susceptible to different steering currents; it's not likely that a substantial change would be realized unless the angle of approach were something like Charley or any of the recurving East coast storms, but changing something from New Orleans to Pensacola is certainly feasible. Making a storm shallower well out to sea could keep it moving west longer, making it a greater threat to land. Just yet another thing that must be taken into consideration...and why you'll likely never see any modification program taken seriously (especially Dynagel and it's 4000 variants).

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* Project storm fury really a failure? Lysis Mon Jul 11 2005 07:46 PM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? ClarkModerator   Mon Jul 11 2005 07:46 PM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? Lysis   Mon Jul 11 2005 08:26 PM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? ClarkModerator   Tue Jul 12 2005 12:29 AM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? Lysis   Tue Jul 12 2005 08:15 AM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? Keith234   Tue Jul 12 2005 02:58 PM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? Lysis   Tue Jul 12 2005 05:36 PM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? Ed DunhamAdministrator   Fri Dec 09 2005 09:07 AM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? Charles Green   Sat Sep 08 2007 05:28 PM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? Jeff5390   Thu Dec 08 2005 04:24 PM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? CaneTrackerInSoFl   Thu Dec 08 2005 08:27 PM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? Sci Am   Mon Nov 05 2007 03:47 PM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? Dean III   Wed Sep 12 2007 12:46 AM
. * * Re: Project storm fury really a failure? Ghost   Wed Sep 19 2007 09:21 PM

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