Is there a blue sky when the center (eye) of a Hurricane is directly over you? And is there no rain?
Everytime I see a Hurricane on radar the eye or center or the hurricane is clear with no precipitation. Why is that? If the eye of the Hurricane is directly over you is there a blue sky? Is it not raining. I understand the strongest winds of a Hurricane are in the eye.
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The strongest winds and torrential rains of a hurricane do not exist in the eye, but in the ring of storms that surrounds the eye (known as the eyewall). The eye is nearly calm and in some cases clear because in the eye of a hurricane the air actually sinks, which dries out the air and clears out the cloud cover.
The strongest winds are generally in the “eye wall” not in the eye itself. In a hurricane with a well-formed eye, it can indeed be clear and calm in the eye itself.