What Is Eye?
The calm, often clear center of a hurricane, surrounded by the eyewall's fierce winds. In technical terms: The roughly circular region, typically 20-65 km across, at the center of an intense tropical cyclone, with light winds, subsiding and warming air, lowest surface pressure and frequently clear or partly cloudy skies.
Eye In Plain English
The calm, often clear center of a hurricane, surrounded by the eyewall's fierce winds.
The Technical Definition
The roughly circular region, typically 20-65 km across, at the center of an intense tropical cyclone, with light winds, subsiding and warming air, lowest surface pressure and frequently clear or partly cloudy skies.
