According to NOAA:
The Total energy (per day) in an "average" hurricane released by rain and cloud formation is ~5.2*10^19 Joules per day, or a power of 600 trillion Watts... Lets call this per-day precipitation energy Eprecipitation
The energy that goes, per day, into sustaining a mature hurricane's winds is estimated in the above link as being 1.3*10^17 Joules per day or 1.5 trillion watts. Lets call this per-day wind energy Ewind
I do not vouch for the above numbers, but I am willing to assume that the NOAA can do their math in these matters
The energy released in a 1 MEGATON TNT explosion is ~4.18*10^15 joules.
Eprecipitation is more than 10,000 Megatons of TNT....
Ewind is ~30 Megatons of TNT (This seems low to me, take this with a grain of salt)
so the total energy of a hurricane dwarfs our nuclear and thermonuclear bombs...
Take the above numbers with a grain of salt.
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- How about detonating a H-Bomb in a HURRICANE?
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- Detonating a H-Bomb in a HURRICANE would have the same effect as peeing on it -- NONE!
- Set the way-back machine for about 3 weeks ago :-)