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Can you see the eye of the typhoon? What are the characteristics?
When a tropical cyclone reaches a certain intensity, a windless and cloudless area is formed in its center, which is called the eye of the wind. A mature typhoon eye usually has a diameter of several tens to 100 km. A narrow backflow near the eye is called "eye wall", which is the place with the strongest wind and the worst weather in tropical cyclones.
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The air outside the eye area of typhoon rotates to the center of low pressure, carrying a lot of water vapor, which rises around the eye area because it is not easy to enter, forming a large gray-black bloated and towering cloud layer and raining cats and dogs. There is a downdraft in the typhoon eye area, so the clouds disperse and twinkling stars can be seen at night.
As shown in the satellite image of Typhoon rammasun No.5 this year, the weather in typhoon eyes is usually sunny to partly cloudy, so it appears as a small black dot on the satellite cloud image. But after the typhoon eye moves, the weather will become extremely bad again.