From: "Geo." 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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> It effects more than that, first there's the shock wave that would break
> up any wind concentrations, then the heat which makes the wind blow even
> more, but possibly in a direction you want, and then there's the pure
> breaking down water and atmosphere down into component atoms, and ygagam
> what that might do to a weather system.

a little research yeilded this, so you may be right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderstorm

In an average thunderstorm, the energy released amounts to about 10,000,000
kilowatt-hours (3.6 x 1013 Joule), which is equivalent to a 20-kiloton
nuclear warhead. A large, severe thunderstorm might be 10 to 100 times more
energetic.


Geo.

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