Why wouldn’t nuking a hurricane actually work?

Question

I know that it wouldn’t work, but I’d really like to know how to *explain* to people that it wouldn’t.

In: Physics

Answer 1

As big as nukes are, they are still piddly amounts of energy compared to a hurricane.

To manipulate weather, you need to apply energy in a way that disrupts the problematic weather system, but we simply cannot generate enough energy to do much, even with nukes.