Sentences with phrase «hurricane eye wall»

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They have central eyes and eye - wall clouds like terrestrial hurricanes, and spin in the same way, but at 4000 kilometres across, three of them side by side would span Earth's diameter.

Natural Disasters Bundle Keywords: Tropical cyclones, hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, tropical storms, oceans, eye, eye wall, rain bands, Hurricane Katrina, anti-clockwise direction, Coriolis Effect, Saffir - Simpson Scale, storm surge

Hurricane Keith hit in October of 2000 with the southern eye wall and winds in excess of 100 MPH passing over the lodge.

The hurricane's eye wall is distinct in the image, and lightning in this case is present in both the eye wall and the rainbands.

If you look at a hurricane, squall lines form in a radial pattern channeling the induce surface winds toward the eye wall.

As a hurricane spins counterclockwise, the clouds at its center move faster and faster in a circle, which narrows until it falls apart, to be replaced by a new circle of eye - wall clouds.

The eye wall contains the hurricane's highest winds, and as the inner circle collapses, those winds can decrease a bit.