Best way to amplify a hurricane is to pump in more heat energy. The link I posted mentioned the amount of energy already in a storm (10 Mt worth of a nuclear bomb every 20 mins) , so to get a 1% increase in damage, that's still a huge amount of energy that being silently put in somewhere. Into a storm that you still can't direct to a particular place, since that's the entire weather system steering it.

I get your point, the military is going to have stuff that the public isn't aware of until years from now, just like before. But there's also physics and limits to even what would look magic to us right now.

I think lasers were looked at and aren't as practical as movies would lead you to think, especially through an atmosphere at distance. Now perhaps that's what the military wants us to think while they have a bunch standing by, but somehow they keep scientists who work with laser daily quiet about the capabilities, even pretending there are limits in non-military uses.