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Show Know The Weather How big is the eye of a hurricane? hurri-cane? Is it true that the eye is sometimes completely clear while for hundreds of miles on each side the sky is filled with clouds? THE EYE of a hurricane is never more than a few miles wide, usually less than five. It is true that sometimes in the middle of the great storm in the eye, so to speak the sky overhead will suddenly appear blue. Winds will calm down and for a few minutes a strange stillness will descend with roaring winds just a few miles distant in all directions. This is the very center of the cirular motion of the winds (counterclockwise), (counterc-lockwise), the hub of a great blowing circle. THE LULL soon ends and when the winds return they are -from the opposite direction direc-tion and often just as strong as before. |