Sentences with phrase «through eyewall»

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At the top of the eyewall, water condenses; as the resulting drops fall back down to the ocean surface they lose power through friction with the surrounding air.

Still, he also cautions against the assumption that rainpower is the only factor impacting hurricane intensity, as not all the eyewall's rain falls directly down through the updraft.

When Hurricane Irma made landfall Sunday, the storm's powerful eyewall passed right through the island, ravaging this resort destination.

Hurricanes can be thought of, to a first approximation, as a heat engine; obtaining its heat input from the warm, humid air over the tropical ocean, and releasing this heat through the condensation of water vapor into water droplets in deep thunderstorms of the eyewall and rainbands, then giving off a cold exhaust in the upper levels of the troposphere (~ 12 km / 8 mi up).