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What is the comparison in energy of a hurricane and a one megaton bomb?
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1 hurricane:8000 bombs
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The total energy released by a mature hurricane is immense, estimated to be equivalent to the explosion of approximately 8,000 one-megaton nuclear bombs. This comparison highlights the massive scale of atmospheric energy in tropical cyclones.