9 years ago on CBS

[guyfriday]

What about "steering" the active storm? Not super-precise or enough to disrupt the conditions, mind you, but sort of a rough directional nudge in the general direction you want it to go? Just tossing around ideas is all

Still the areas involved would be too big for any country to be able to do. You can't just affect the area you want the Hurricane to go to, but instead you have to heat up the water under the Hurricane, and still maintain a low-pressure area at the eye, then constantly nudge those values in the direction you want to push the Hurricane. It just can't be done.

[Maxmars]

What about "steering" the active storm? Not super-precise or enough to disrupt the conditions, mind you, but sort of a rough directional nudge in the general direction you want it to go? Just tossing around ideas is all

I was thinking about that too.

It's one thing to spawn the conditions 'capable' of evoking a hurricane... but actually steering it is another matter entirely.  Imagine the amount of 'surrounding' circumstances you'd have to account for and also control.  It seems hardly possible as I understand our technology today.

But then if we start going down the road of 'what we don't know,' we could get lost in supposition.

[Nugget]

FWIW:
 Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025

Subject TermsCollapse  
Descriptor(s):
*WEATHER MODIFICATION, MILITARY OPERATIONS, MILITARY STRATEGY, MILITARY CAPABILITIES, MILITARY APPLICATIONS
Field(s)/Group(s):
Meteorology, Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
Report Date:
1996 Jul 01

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA333462

Sorry if I didn't post properly; my ability to learn new formats is quite limited.

[Maxmars]

FWIW:
 Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025

Subject TermsCollapse  
Descriptor(s):
*WEATHER MODIFICATION, MILITARY OPERATIONS, MILITARY STRATEGY, MILITARY CAPABILITIES, MILITARY APPLICATIONS
Field(s)/Group(s):
Meteorology, Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
Report Date:
1996 Jul 01

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA333462

Sorry if I didn't post properly; my ability to learn new formats is quite limited.

Excellent stuff...

It's clear that this possibility has been studied long and hard by those who could make use of the knowledge.  
Militaries have recognizes the value of weather as a tactical factor in planning engagements.  It makes sense, from the perspective of war.

[pianopraze]

They just don't have the capabilities to make this happen. 

You brought up a good point though, Africa. With the greening of the Sahara, though this has occurred due to weather issues this year, there has been less sand in the air flying towards Florida, so a lot of the weather has been uninterrupted. I would suspect that if the Sahara keeps this greening stage, hurricanes forming in the Atlantic will be worse in strength than in prior years/decades.

I watch this channel daily: Link

this year they predicted worse than normal, but there was a lot of dust from Africa in the air and it chocked off all the storms until recently.

there has been a lot of sand this year.