The eye is a region of mostly calm weather found at the center of tropical cyclones and is a well-recognized feature. It is usually circular, typically 30–65 kilometers (19–40 miles) in diameter and is at the cyclone's center of circulation. A cyclone's lowest barometric pressure occurs in the eye, and can be as much as 15 percent lower than the pressure outside the storm. In strong tropical cyclones, the eye is characterized by light winds and clear skies, surrounded on all sides by an eyewall, a normally symmetric ring of towering thunderstorms where the most severe weather of a cyclone occurs. In weaker tropical cyclones, the eye is less well defined, and can be covered by the central dense overcast, an area of high, thick clouds that show up brightly on satellite imagery. Weaker or disorganized storms may also feature an eyewall that does not completely encircle the eye, or have an eye that features heavy rain.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_%28cyclone%29
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1883:
New York City's Brooklyn Bridge opened as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge
1913:
Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover; the occasion was one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Victoria_Louise_of_Prussia
1986:
A stationary front began over the central Caribbean Sea, leading to severe floods that over two weeks killed dozens of people in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Jamaica_floods
1991:
The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel (evacuees pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Solomon
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
nacelle: 1. (aviation) 2. The compartment that holds passengers on a dirigible, hot-air balloon, or other aerostat; a gondola. 3. A separate streamlined enclosure mounted on an aircraft to house, originally, an engine, and now also cargo or crew. 4. (archaic) The cockpit of an aircraft. 5. (by extension) 6. A hollow boat-shaped structure. 7. An enclosure housing machinery or a motor. 8. (electrical engineering) The part between the rotor and tower of a wind turbine. 9. (nautical) The submersed providers of buoyancy of a SWATH-hulled boat. 10. (road transport) A streamlined enclosure on the body or dashboard of a motor vehicle. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nacelle
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another. --Harry Emerson Fosdick https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Emerson_Fosdick
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