[Ron H.]

They tried some of that in the 60s...Hurricane Betsy was seeded...and some thought it didn't help at all, and maybe that's why it was so bad...I don't know...but they don't know enough to really dissipate these storms. And who's going to take the chance of making a bad storm worse?

I seem to recall the govt. experimenting with cloud seeding back in the 60's without very much favorable results. In fact I seem to recall at least once the seeding caused some extreme flooding in either Arizona or Nevada somewhere. Something about that area of dessert getting only 4-6" of rain annually and in a down burst they received well over 10" in that one storm in a real short span of time that was blamed directly on the cloud seeding program. Maybe someone else has better memory or details. The program was stopped along about that time I seem to recall.

[laz]

I seem to recall the govt. experimenting with cloud seeding back in the 60's without very much favorable results.

They tried seeding them to make the eyewall disintegrate, but then they discovered that the big hurricanes normally replace the eyewall anyway and that the seeding made no difference.