What does it feel like to be in the eye of a hurricane?

I wouldn't know. But I once met the crew of a French Air Inter flight to Lorient. They had just landed in a near hurricane force wind. The storm was so intense that all the electricity and street lights were gone in the city. read more

The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of strong tropical cyclones. The eye of a storm is a roughly circular area, typically 30–65 km (20–40 miles) in diameter. read more

The following pictures, personal stories, and hour-by-hour countdown of how weather conditions change as a hurricane nears will give you some idea. read more

A great example is Hurricane Wilma in 2005, which had a tiny eye that was just two nautical miles wide when it was a Category 5 hurricane in the northwest Caribbean. According to the National Hurricane Center, that tiny eye was replaced by another eye around a day later that was 40 nautical miles wide. read more