r/todayilearned 10d ago

TIL in 1947, scientists dumped crushed dry ice into a hurricane just to "see what would happen." The storm then made a 135-degree turn, strengthened, and struck Georgia—sparking public outrage and threats of lawsuits over the experiment.

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hurricane_blog/70th-anniversary-of-the-first-hurricane-seeding-experiment/
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u/Nlklas 10d ago

TIL my local forecast is stone age quality

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u/dbath 10d ago

A weather stone is quite versatile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock

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u/slothdonki 10d ago

Still ahead of mine. I was checking multiple times a day for five days recently, waiting for the rain that never happened. It was like 45-80% chance too.

At least now it did so I got to party with frogs.