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Hurricane Wilma with a pinhole eye. While typical mature storms have eyes that are a few dozen miles across, rapidly intensifying storms can develop an extremely small, clear, and circular eye, sometimes referred to as a pinhole eye. Storms with pinhole eyes are prone to large fluctuations in intensity, and provide difficulties and frustrations ...
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 ...
Inside the eye of Hurricane Lee. Friday 8 September 2023 16:15, Louise Boyle. The US Air Force Reserve’s “Hurricane Hunters” shared dramatic footage from inside Hurricane Lee on Thursday night.
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 ...
Footage gathered by a Saildrone uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) on Sept. 22, 2022, from inside Hurricane Fiona, a Category 4 hurricane, barreling across the Atlantic Ocean. (Courtesy Saildrone and ...
In the southern hemisphere, the strongest winds are to the left of the eye. That is because cyclonic winds below the equator, spin clockwise. [5] On occasion, strong winds and wind gusts can occur in the rain bands of a tropical cyclone. And inside the eye the winds are relatively calm. At higher altitudes, the winds within a tropical cyclone ...