2007-01-30 03:52:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
It's the part of a hurricane with the lowest barometric pressure (conveniently located at the center of the storm). It's really just the point at which the storm rotates around. It's pretty cool when the eye goes over your location, because you can watch the trees...one minute they are blowing one direction and then it stops for a little while, and then the wind picks up again in the opposite direction.
2007-01-30 05:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by hellotman16 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The air spiralling in to a hurricane/typhoon/tropical cyclone has to go somewhere when it gets to the centre. The only possible direction is up. The rapidly rising air creates a ring of thunderstorms that form the wall of the eye. As all the air blowing into the storm rises in the wall, it leaves an area of calm or light winds in the centre. This calm area is the eye of the storm.
2007-01-30 07:45:25 · answer #2 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The eye is possibly the most recognizable feature of tropical cyclones. Surrounded by a vertical wall of thunderstorms (the eyewall), the eye is a roughly-circular area at the cyclone's center of circulation. In strong tropical cyclones, the eye is characterised by light winds and clear skies, surrounded on all sides by a towering, symmetric eyewall. In weaker tropical cyclones, the eye is less well-defined, and can be covered by the central dense overcast, which is an area of high, thick clouds which show up brightly on satellite pictures. Weaker or disorganized storms may also feature an eyewall which does not completely encircle the eye, or have an eye which features heavy rain. In all storms, however, the eye is the location of the storm's minimum barometric pressure: the area where the atmospheric pressure at sea level is the lowest.
2007-01-30 04:23:11 · answer #3 · answered by Sxoxo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The eye is the calmest part of a hurricane,surrounding the eye wall;which is the most violent part of a hurricane.
The eye wall is almost a complete ring of thunder storms and contains the strongest winds in the hurricane.
2007-01-30 05:49:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "eye" of a hurricane is the center of the storm, which is also call the "calm", this is the time when everything is calm as the storm passes over. How ever the center of the storm is the strongest and produce more tornado's.
2007-01-30 04:22:09 · answer #5 · answered by Kdog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋