Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The mass of clouds that whirls around the eye of a hurricane, where the destructive force of the storm is most intense.
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- noun a ring of
towering thunderstorms where the mostsevere weather of acyclone occurs
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Examples
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And that eye that you see -- these eyes go through what we call eyewall replacements.
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And these bigger, stronger storms will go through these what we call eyewall replacement cycles.
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We have what we call eyewall replacement cycles, and the thunderstorms build up and then they collapse, and then the wind speeds increase or decrease along with that.
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A new eyewall is forming, and WTVJ Channel 6's Roland Steadam is saying it should come ashore by tonight.
September 2004 2004
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And, in addition, there are still many sections of the so-called eyewall that are weak.
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We're watching it go through what's called the eyewall replacement cycle.
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Obviously we get you back down toward Key West, and that's where the eyewall is making landfall now, maybe not quite into Key West, maybe the landfall, the eyewall is a few miles north of Key West, but folks there don't want to split hairs, because I tell you what, the winds are more than they counted on for sure right now.
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In Irene's case, that pattern known as eyewall replacement was interrupted, and the storm didn't gather as much strength as most of the models suggested.
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Suddenly, a band of air at a certain radial distance starts rotating more strongly than the others; this becomes the "eyewall" - the region of strongest winds that surrounds the eye in a hurricane.
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Melor had a nearly complete inner eyewall, which is surrounded by a nearly complete outer eyewall of moderate rain.
mtc commented on the word eyewall
Conversely, there is the walleye.
June 13, 2012