Hurricane?

Question

If enough fire was applied to a hurricane, could it stop the hurricane? There would be no limit to how big the fire would be, so don't say that the fire wouldn't be big enough or the gas or whatever would run out. Could fire stop a tornado?

What if a hurricane/tornado was to be hit by a freezing force?(this is unrealistic, but what would happen?) The freezing force would be fast, powerful, big, and also has not limit on power.

Answer 1

Interesting question...In both cases, it may make the situation worse.

In the first case, you apply fire or heat energy to a hurricane. Since tropical storms like hurricane are warm core storms and they feed off on the warm tropical waters, the heat may actually make the situation worse by giving the storm more fuel.

In the second case, you apply a cold freezing force to a hurricane. With a hurricane, you have a very warm and moist air mass and you suddenly add to it a very cold and likely more drier air mass. What you may produce is a very unstable and explosive severe weather situation with very heavy precipitation likely. This can also increase the chances of tornadoes in the area too.

So in both cases, it may get worse.

Answer 2

No, even the biggest fire in the world couldn't stop a hurricane because of this:
The high speed winds of the hurricane would either put the fire out or push it out of its path
The hurricane contains a large wave in front of it that would also put the fire out.
The hurricane recieves most of its energy from the sun and warm water, it feeds off heat
The hurricane produces a lot of rain, which would also put a fire out.
A tornado couldn't be stopped by a fire either because once the tornado is on the ground (and hence a tornado at that point) its high winds and extreme concentration of energy would and is unstoppable. More likely the tornado would pick up or throw the fire. However, a tornado can be prevented by the smoke such a large fire would release, but that would cause a lot of other problems (acid rain, extreme cooling due to blocked sun, etc) and is not garaunteed to prevent the tornado... so thats why they don't do that in the midwest.

As for the freezing force, they attempted this in a hurricane. The hurricane was way off in the atlantic and not heading for land, so they seeded (using silver iodide and dry ice like in clouds) it in hopes that it would cool and loose much of its energy. The experiment failed horribly and is not well publicized because of this: the hurricane actually strengthed and changed course to hit the US. In theory, however, it should've worked.
Freezing tornadoes would be much more complex as they are short lived, but it shouldn't matter either way. Tornadoes don't recieve most of their energy from heat, so they probably won't be affected by any freezing attempts.

Hope this helps!!

Answer 3

There is no way a hurricane can get destroy in any way. Hurricanes are just too strong to kill the convection of that if you try, you'll or someone esle would probably die.

Answer 4

you seem to have a fascination with fire