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| Title: | CROSS SECTION OF A HURRICANE |
| Caption: | A vertically exaggerated cross section of clouds and wind patterns in a hurricane. Warm, moist air at the surface spirals toward the center of the storm and rises to form rain bands. Sinking dry air creates spaces between the bands that have fewer clouds. The innermost rainband is the eyewall cloud that surrounds the eye of the storm. Rising warm air from the eyewall either leaves the storm in one of several outflow jets aloft, or loses moisure and sinks back into the eye of the storm. Subsiding dry air in the eye warms by compression, giving the storm its characteristic "warm core," with clearer skies and calmer winds in eye. (After NOAA) |
| Keywords: | atmosphere, air pressures, atmospheric pressures, lows, hurricanes, hurricane eyes, eye walls, spiral rain bands, winds, cumulonimbus clouds, convergence |