Project Stormfury

United States meteorological experiment

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hurricane-seeding

  • In weather modification: Severe storms

    …seeded as a part of Project Stormfury, a series of hurricane-modification experiments conducted by the Environmental Science Services Administration and the U.S. Navy. Heavy doses of silver iodide were dropped into the hurricane clouds from airplanes. The maximum measured wind speeds in the hurricane decreased by 31 and 15 percent…

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