Sunday, November 11, 2007

Hurricane cont..

A hurricane contain an eye that is at the center of the storm. The eye is a region of mostly calm weather found at the center of strong tropical cyclones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_(cyclone)). The eye of a storm is a roughly circular area (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_(cyclone)). It is surrounded by the eyewall, a ring of towering thunderstorms where the most severe weather of a cyclone occurs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_(cyclone)). The cyclone's lowest barometric pressure occurs in the eye, and can be as much as 15% lower than the atmospheric pressure outside the storm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_(cyclone)). In strong tropical cyclones, the eye is characterized by light winds and clear skies, surrounded on all sides by a towering, symmetric eyewall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_(cyclone)).

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