An ambitious project to weaken or divert hurricanes generated decades of suspicion and disagreement. What did we learn – and ...

The eyewall is the most dangerous part of a hurricane, where the storm’s strongest winds and heaviest rain surround the calm ...

But that calm area is surrounded by the most dangerous part of the hurricane, the eyewall. A hurricane can have strong, gusty winds in any of its outer rain bands, but the strongest winds are ...

At the very center of a hurricane is the eye: a calm, clear area typically 20–40 miles wide. Despite the chaos surrounding it, the eye can feature blue skies and light winds. This eerie calm is often ...

Tropical cyclone: This reference applies to many storms that involve revolving clouds that are born out of the tropics and ...

Record hot water in the Gulf of Mexico aided Milton’s intensification, and a process known as eyewall replacement led it to grow in size. At nearly every turn, Hurricane Milton has offered ...

It is common for strong and powerful storms to undergo eyewall replacements, which allow for a brief period of weakening, like we saw with Milton going from a Category 5 to a Category 4 early Tuesday.

At this point, it briefly lost some wind energy and was downgraded to a category 3 hurricane. And that was very brief indeed. What was actually happening was something known as "eyewall replacement." ...