TIL that the US Government once experimented with seeding clouds to weaken hurricanes (Project Stormfury), ultimately learning that their method was just duplicating a process which already occurs naturally (eyewall replacement).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Stormfury?wprov=sfla1
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