How many nukes would it take to disrupt a hurricane?

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I wonder if a large enough bomb, nuke or not, would create enough heat to mess up that balance, or just move enough air in the blast that it dissipates.

Obviously this would have to be a establish hurricane about to make landfall. But it would be cool as hell to watch.

Vote me for president, ill find out

Heat and moving the air out of the way (lowering the pressure) would make it stronger. Those are two of the three building blocks of a hurricane. The third being moisture.

Ah fuck.

So nuking a hurricane would make it stronger?

I still wanna try it

You could maybe try nuking around it, kinda trying to implode it by blasting air towards the center. This would increase the pressure instead of lowering it. tbf I have no clue what would happen. lol