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Cross section of a mature tropical cyclone. A typical tropical cyclone has an eye approximately 30–65 km (20–40 mi) across at the geometric center of the storm. The eye may be clear or have spotty low clouds (a clear eye), it may be filled with low-and mid-level clouds (a filled eye), or it may be obscured by the central dense overcast.
Engineer Nick Underwood recorded the inside of Hurricane Helene while aboard NOAA’s “Miss Piggy,” one of the planes used to cut into the eyes of hurricanes. “Listen to your local officials.
Hurricane Ian was a prolific lightning producer as it strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane on its approach to Florida. Storm chasers along the coast of Florida even witnessed cloud-to-ground ...
The ominous eye of Hurricane Milton is visible in stunning detail from outer space in a timeplapse video released Tuesday by NASA.. From 275 miles above Earth, the powerful storm can be seen ...
Surrounding the eye of the hurricane is a ring of thunderstorms, called the eyewall. Rainbands surround the eye of the storm in concentric circles. In the eyewall and in the rainbands, warm, moist air rises, while in the eye and around the rainbands, air from higher in the atmosphere sinks back toward the surface.
Mesovortices visible in the eye of Hurricane Emilia in 1994. An eyewall mesovortex is a small-scale rotational feature found in an eyewall of an intense tropical cyclone. Eyewall mesovortices are similar, in principle, to small "suction vortices" often observed in multiple-vortex tornadoes. In these vortices, wind speed can be up to 10% higher ...
"Miss Piggy," one of The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) two Lockheed WP-3D Orion "Hurricane Hunters," flew into the eye of Hurricane Milton, and a video taken from inside ...
One of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s hurricane hunter planes flew through the eye of Hurricane Dorian as the Category 5 storm pummeled the Bahamas on September 1.The ...