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70th Anniversary of the first hurricane seeding experiment - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

Summary by NOAA
On the afternoon of October 13, 1947, an Air Force B-17 aircraft penetrated a hurricane 415 miles (667 km) east of Jacksonville and dumped several pounds of crushed dry ice into the storm, just to see what would happen.  This was the first attempt to modify a tropical cyclone by seeding it with freezing nuclei.  […]
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NOAA broke the news on Saturday, June 13, 2026.
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