Seems even more unlikely in a hurricane, which typically has alot of rain, making Energy Weapons based on heat largely useless.
Actually, once you catch metal on fire, water is effectively useless in combatting that type of fire. DEW's tend to vaporize other materials.
I'm more referring to the transmission of the energy. You do know that DEWs need to heat up the rain and air before it hits the car, right? Which would be very difficult in a hurricane given the amount of rain that's constantly falling, not only abosorbing the beam, but refracing and weakening it as well.
Also, metal doesn't burn. Well, most don't anyway. Steel can have the carbon burned out but that's it.
The others are more exotic metals that one doesn't have in high quantities in one area.
https://www.scutumlondon.co.uk/help-advice/detect-and-extinguish-class-d-fires/And yes, water is useless in combatting. If anythiing, if you had potassium, water would make it worse. But cars aren't typically made with these metals. Except EVs. Lithium fires are a thing.