What would happen if a 100-megaton bomb blew up in the eye of a Cat5 hurricane in the middle of the ocean?

Answer 1

Well, lets think about that one for a second...

A Category 5 hurricane can have an eye spanning up to about 80 miles, that is a really large area. Since the "weather" in the eye of a hurricane is relatively calm (albeit very low pressure) you could consider it "calm" and not worry about the hurricane at all.

Now let's consider a HUGE nuclear explosion. The largest to date have an effective area of affect of about 30 mile radius area of effect. Pressure effect may extend out much further, but we must realize that the pressure wave is a net zero effect, meaning the extent of the pressure wave will net zero average PSI shift.

Now let's consider them both together: An explosion of this size within the eye could do the following: Everything within the 5 PSI ring of pressure from the nuke would be dead and destroyed, wiped off the map in fact. Within the 3 PSI ring is severely damaged or mostly dead. Within the 1 PSI ring of the explosion experience damage (mostly from flying debris) but alive. Here is the catch... that 1 PSI ring will NOT even reach the eye wall of the hurricane. What little effect the nuke would have on the hurricane would be negligible at best, none at worst.

For an explosion to actually "snuff" out a hurricane the explosion would have to be on the close order of 3000 megatons. Do the arithmetic using the above stats and remember that the expansion and distribution of energy must be geometric.

Now that would be one HUGE explosion.

Answer 2

If you did that, then the hurricane would spread radioactive particles over its entire area, making it a radioactive hurricane.

hurricanes produce energy on the order of hundreds of times greater than atomic bombs; the largest nuclear detonation would be sucked into the eye wall like a vacuum.

Answer 3

if a 100 megaton bomb went off it would lite the atmosphere on fire and the planet would become a ball of fire

Answer 4

the bomb would disolve the hurricane

Answer 5

The whole world would have a tsunami

Answer 6

i think it will screw up the hurricane

Answer 7

who give a crap

Answer 8

nothing