What is the eye of the storm? How does it feel to be in it?

Question

how long does it last? Has anyone ever experienced being in it? Is it different from the "calm before the storm"?

Answer 1

How long the eye of the storm lasts depends on the size of the storm. It is very calm in the eye and you can see blue sky overhead.

Answer 2

The cental calm region of a tropical revolving storm is called the 'eye'.The diameter of the eye varies from approximately 20 to 60 Kms.Very low pressure is recorded in the eye.In the eye, fair weather prevails with light winds and little rain.But ,sea surface will be high and turbulent if the eye is over the sea surface.
The calm at the centre is not the 'calm before storm' as winds will be experienced on both sides of the eye,-once before the eye approaches and again after it crosses.
How long the eye remains over one place depends upon the speed with which the storm moves.If the average speed is taken as 25 Kms per hour ,it may take one to two hours.
If the storm is very intense, the eye can be seen in satellite and radar pictures.

Answer 3

Typically the stronger the storm the fewer clouds and calmer the conditions there will be in the eye. I've been in a bunch, most recently Jeanne and Wilma. The eye of Jeanne was clear and calm and lasted for around 45 minutes. Wilma was not quite as strong but had a much larger wind field and a larger eye. The eye was not cloud free though. The winds dropped from around 100mph to about 15-20mph for a period of around an hour and then abruptly picked back up to around 90mph.

Typically when a hurricane is weakening the wind field will expand as will the eye. Stronger compact hurricanes can have very small eyes and as such the passage can be very short.

Answer 4

All storms are convection cells consisting of rising warmer air and sinking cooler air. Warm air rises because it is less dense. When it does cooler air rushes in to replace it. The result is a donut shaped cell with warm air rising around the inside of the "hole" and cool air sinking around the outside of the donut and in the center of the hole. The spinning Earth makes the entire donut spin as well. This is due to the Coriolis Effect. Where warm air rises, it also cools, causing the water vapour in it to condense into clouds. Sinking cool air warms as it sinks so no clouds form. The inside "wall" around the "donut hole" is called the eye wall of the storm. This is where winds are strongest. In the very center of the hole, the sinking air creates a calm region with little wind and virtually no clouds. As the donut shaped storm drifts over you, you hit one side of the eye wall first, then the calm eye, then the other side of the eye wall. People have died believing that the calm eye meant the storm was over, only to be hit by the eye wall again a short time later.

Answer 5

it feels different because you know your in the middle, but it is a quiet point of the storm. yes i have experienced it. it is diffrent from the calm before the storm because the storm is not yet over, nor is it first blowing in.

Answer 6

It's more of a 'calm in the midst of chaos' type thing. Its duration time depends on the size and speed of the storm itself.

Answer 7

Well.... the eye of a storm is usually in the middle(the most strongest part) and if you get sucked in, then you are definetely not going to come back out, unless some kind of miricle happenes. It feels like you are spinning at such a fast rate, that it sucks all the oxygen out and you cant breathe!

Answer 8

THE EYE OF THE STORM IS JUST LIKE A SUNNY DAY. ITS THE INBETWEEN PART OF THE HURRICANE. NORMALLY IT LASTS ABOUT AN HOUR, BUT IT DEPENDS ON HOW LARGE THE STORM IS AND HOW FAST IT IS MOVING.