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==After the seedings== [[Image:Tropical storm dorothy recon (1970).jpg|thumb|right|250px|Stormfury inside [[Tropical Storm Dorothy (1970)|Tropical Storm Dorothy]]]] Atlantic hurricanes meeting all of the criteria were extremely rare, which made duplication of the "success" reached with Hurricane Debbie extremely difficult. Meanwhile, developments outside of meteorology hindered the cause of hurricane modification. In the early 1970s, the Navy withdrew from the project.<ref name="Davies p. 91">Davies p 91</ref> Stormfury began to refocus its efforts on understanding, rather than modifying, tropical cyclones.<ref name=Williams>Williams</ref> At the same time, the Project's B-17s were nearing the end of their operational lifetimes. At the cost of $30 million (year unknown)<ref name="Davies p. 91"/> two [[Lockheed P-3]]'s were acquired. Due to the rarity of Atlantic hurricanes meeting the safety requirements, plans were made to move Stormfury to the Pacific and experiment on the large number of typhoons there.<ref name="Whipple p. 154"/> This action required many of the same safety requirements as in the Atlantic, but had the advantage of a much higher number of potential subjects.<ref name="Davies p. 91"/> The plan was to begin again in 1976, and seed typhoons by flying out of [[Guam]]. However, political issues blocked the plan. The [[People's Republic of China]] announced that it would not be happy if a seeded typhoon changed course and made landfall on its shores,<ref name="Whipple p. 154"/> while [[Japan]] declared itself willing to put up with difficulties caused by typhoons because that country got more than half of its rainfall from tropical cyclones.<ref name="Whipple p. 154"/> Similar plans to operate Stormfury in the eastern north Pacific or in the [[Australia]]n region also collapsed.<ref name="Bulletin p. 508">Willoughby, Jorgensen, Black, and Rosenthal p 508</ref>
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