Inside The Sunny Center of a Hurricane

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[@liveabovethecrowd]

Air isn't just 'like a fluid', it is a fluid! Liquids and gasses both are.

[@dhawthorne1634]

As are plasmas. I came to point this out. A science channel shouldn't be confusing the words 'fluid' and 'liquid' as synonyms.

[@Derekzparty]

Liquid hot magma ... also a fluid!

[@alcapuno]

so a solid is a very viscous liquid then?

[@TheMrCarnification]

@@alcapuno no. We can approximate some types of mud as a "very viscous liquid" and some equations for liquids work fairly well for fine sand under certain conditions, but solids are not liquids

[@merikmalhads1676]

@@dhawthorne1634 A neutral one is. There is a bit more technicalities with charge-biased ones mainly because constant force on each individual molecule shifts the way a fluid behaves overall

[@erich930]

One other jarring part about being under the eye of a hurricane is that after the eye passes, the wind is blowing in the opposite direction from before the eye. This can blow debris back over where people were hiding, and it means anyone who was hiding must relocate to the opposite side of the structure to shield them from the reversed wind

[@saavedyv2]

​@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 Isn't God the one sending us these hurricanes? 🤔

[@Philip-qq7ql]

​@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5when a hurricane happens "its natures fault" but when it stops its "gods power", you gotta choose one or the other

[@GachaWolf81900]

@@Philip-qq7qlthe way god made the earth, this happens naturally all the time. Sometimes if a storm stops abruptly it was probably god interfering but if it calms down slow and natural then it like just happened on its own, no divine interference. So it really depends

[@6-dpegasus425]

​@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5also God: *sends tsunamis and hurricanes that have taken thousands of innocents*

[@official-obama]

@@6-dpegasus425 wontfix

[@BoogieManFL]

I live in Florida and I've twice been in the eye of a hurricane. And even though one shouldn't, I briefly went outside to experience it. It was extremely still and quiet, and surprisingly warm. I remember a slightly golden hue to the sky. Beautiful, but eerie.

[@Pfyzer]

The literally silence between the storms

[@pt4103]

Inside the pupil of an angry god

[@A-185gaming10]

cap

[@tajuddinahmed3379]

​@@A-185gaming10Get out of your basement kid

[@A-185gaming10]

i dont even have a basement and btw get a pc lol kid

[@tgypoi]

An older friend told me they used to have cyclone parties, stay inside partying while the storm raged, run outside for the eye, then back inside for the other side. Sounded like fun, but I've always just avoided being in bad storms.

[@johndemeritt3460]

There are a lot of typhoon party stories from Okinawa. If you know a Marine who was stationed there, just ask. I'm sure they'll have a few doozies!

[@planefan082]

I remember doing this in Hong Kong, I didn't get to experience an eye though

[@DavidMuri-lm5vy]

Well it would be even scarier to actually be caught up in the eye of the hurricane when it forms when you're out at sea because if the hurricane is going to take more time to get to land then your boat is going to have fuel left, and/or is moving faster than your boat is able to catch up then you're screwed, but if not my advice is if you're caught up in the situation where the hurricane actually is heading towards the land slower than your boat is able to nearly stay in the center of the hurricane constantly, and the hurricane is going towards land before all the fuel inside your boat runs out you're going to have to use your boat to follow the direction the hurricane is headed until it weakens enough to the point where it's safe to leave the hurricane's eye when the wind speed of the hurricane's eye wall calms down enough, and you'll know when it's safe to leave the eye of the hurricane because has a hurricane weakens its eye becomes less, and less flushed out meaning it starts to rain within the eye of the hurricane, and once that happens you'll know the hurricane is weakening, and, so that's why you'll know when it's time to take the chance to leave the eye of the hurricane, and go into the eye wall itself to get out of the hurricane just saying! 😨😨😨😨😨😨

[@johndemeritt3460]

@@DavidMuri-lm5vy, typically, tropical cyclones don't form quickly, so chances are that you'd have plenty of time to get to safe harbor before a storm comes through your patch of ocean. That said, I was living in League City, Texas when Tropical Storm Allison came ashore on the west end of Galveston Island in June, 2001. When I went out to University of Houston, Clear Lake that morning, the Hational Hurricane Center reported that there was a disorganized area of disturbed weather off the upper Texas coast, but they weren't expecting much development before it made landfall and fell apart. It didn't. By 2 PM, I was driving home from school and drove through one of the most intense downpours I've ever driven through. The street I lived on was almost completely flooded. And that's when I learned that the "disorganized area of disturbed weather off the upper Texas coast" had beaten all the expectations, organized itself, and came ashore about the same time as I was making my way up the driveway. So, yes, it can happen . . . but if you follow the tropical weather forecasts from the country you live in, you should be able to stay safe.

[@VividBoricua]

I appreciate the attention to detail in the initial photo at 0:24. The wind is blowing in the opposite direction as it should!

[@aquarius5264]

it's blowing in the direction it should, just maybe not the direction some people would've expected

[@zcarp8642]

The one thing you should ALWAYS remember. Be hesitant when there's a violent storm and it suddenly calms down. Weather is fickle and can easily turn from beautiful back to cruel

[@realvanman1]

Air doesn’t just act like a fluid. It IS a fluid.

[@triadwarfare]

Seems like fluid and liquid are interchanged. Yes air is fluid, but no, it's not fluid in the same sense as liquid, otherwise we'd drown.

[@Uhhhi-ih8bb]

@@triadwarfare?

[@Volcano22207]

@@triadwarfareit’s fluid not a liquid, they are not entirely interchangeable

[@brianmiller179]

I remember when I was in Okinawa we would have BBQ cookouts in the eye of the typhoons. Typhoon parties were so much fun.

[@spamboli]

same for me - experienced the Eye twice. Okinawa was the safest place to experience them since nearly everything was built of reinforced concrete

[@johndemeritt3460]

I remember being stationed at Kadena AB when a typhoon decided to come park over the island. For those of you who don't know, Okinawa is 67 miles from the northernmost to the southernmost point. I got a satellite picture of Okinawa outlined inside the center of the eye -- which was 70 miles across. Okinawa stayed centered in that eye for 24 hours before the upper level steering currents weakened and allowed the typhoon to move off to the colder waters of the Northwest Pacific. It's been nearly 30 years since the typhoon (the name of which I can't remember), but I do remember looking out the window and seeing the guy across the street -- who worked in the weather shop, by the way -- barbecuing on his front step.

[@brianmiller179]

@@johndemeritt3460 when were you there?

[@johndemeritt3460]

@@brianmiller179, I got to Kadena AB in May 1994 and left in August 1997. When were you there?

[@MagnakayViolet]

The most exciting scene from 'The Day After Tommorrow' film was when the characters experienced the terror of the eye of the super blizzard bringing super cold air from the highest layers of the atmosphere to the ground, causing things to freeze dangerously.

[@Uhhhi-ih8bb]

I remember that. Although I remembered them surviving inside a goofy room with a small fire which wasn’t too realistic

[@Sparkle8205]

I remember when Hurricane Sandy hit where I lived, it started getting bad when I was at my neighbor’s house across the street, and had to stay over due to the hail and whatnot, and once we were over the eye, I managed to run back home before it got bad again.

[@TyphoonOwner728]

me in Hong Kong haven't been in the eye since 1979. I haven't seen the eye of hurrcine since my birth even not a hole to the sky and I can only see it in internet😢. good days here for me. I am allowed to see the eye without airplane in 2024🥳😄

[@babilon6097]

Eye am blown away. Glad we don't see those in Poland.

[@dhawthorne1634]

Yeah, I'll take just about any other natural disaster over a hurricane or Tsunami. The only thing I'd consider worse is a volcanic explosion on the scale of Saint Helen's, Pompeii, Krakatoa and Yellowstone. I'll say, you and the Baltics do get some nasty storms off your coast and when one gets blown in, the flooding is just about as bad, they just don't have anywhere near the windspeed.

[@babilon6097]

@@dhawthorne1634 I don't know what you're talking about. The worst natural disasters of my lifetime are drought and flooding. Both caused by irresponsible water management so we only have our government to blame.

[@dcrggreensheep]

As an american, yeah you're lucky you don't get our weather. I mean even just looking at stuff like Hurricanes and Tornadoes.

[@sussyboi_vr]

You live in Poland?

[@theauggieboygamer9148]

0:00 They even made the wind blow in the other direction, which is clever because after the eye, the wind will go in the opposite direction as before the eye, or if the eye misses you, the wind will go in one direction, then during the most severe point it will go perpendicular to the direction before, then when it starts to weaken it will go opposite the original direction

[@anzahanifathallah]

"in the eye of the hurricane there was quiet, for just a moment~"

[@VividBoricua]

"A yellow sky. When I was seventeen a hurricane destroyed my town, I-I-I didn't drown. I couldn't seem to die."

[@stupidkaijucrazy5548]

@@VividBoricua”I rode my way out”

[@postmailer9223]

i've been looking for a comment of this type

[@stoneddraculaYT]

@@stupidkaijucrazy5548wrote

[@flarewritesstories]

IVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS COMMENT

[@theauggieboygamer9148]

Another reason the eye might be so calm is that it’s close to the center of rotation, and when something spins, the middle moves slower than the rim, but with hurricanes this is usually the opposite, where the fastest winds are found near the center, the outside is usually pretty gentle, however, this is because all the air in the hurricane wants to move into the center, but as it migrates to the center of the hurricane, the Coriolis effect causes the air to drift to the right if it’s in the northern hemisphere or to the left if it’s in the southern hemisphere, causing it to miss its target, the air keeps trying to pull in though so at its closest point it begins to curve in the direction that the target is now, but centrifugal forces will cause it to not get any closer so instead it gets flung away from the center, so it makes an attempt again, but this time in addition to the Coriolis effect, it now has some rotational momentum making it miss even further, this repeats until it is in a stable cycle with air trying to pull into low pressure in the middle and centrifugal forces pushing it outward which causes the air to “orbit” the center and it basically is an orbit, the only difference between this and planets orbiting a star is with planets orbiting a star the centripetal force is gravity, where in hurricanes it’s the low pressure in the eye, and with planets, the closer a planet is to its star, the faster it has to spin around the star to remain stable, the same applies for hurricanes, but the air in the eye is where it wants to be, so the only rotation in the eye would be air dragged along by the eyewall, but it’s so close to the center that everything is orbiting that the same rpm of the air has lower windspeed. And actually, because the eye is has the lowest pressure in the hurricane, when in the eye, most of the effects of the storm cease temporarily except for one, storm surge, because storm surge is caused by the low pressure and the eye has the lowest pressure in the storm, storm surge is at its worst when in the eye

[@DavidMuri-lm5vy]

Well technically no because Storm surges caused by hurricanes happen because as cold low pressure air is going into the eye it starts spiraling downward into the eye, and the pressure becomes, so high that it heats up, and absorbs moisture from the water in the air which creates the storm surge near the area where the hurricane eye ends, and the eye wall begins, so in reality if you were inside of a hurricane that's actually is powerful enough, so that it's eye forms, and you were on a boat you would see that what's happening is that when you're in the center of the eye of the hurricane, and you looked around you you'd start seeing that the water level around the eye of the hurricane that you're in is rising mean the storm surges actually adds worse in the narrow strip of are between the innermost part of the eye wall and the outermost part of the hurricane's eye, So what you're saying is parshaly incorrect. 😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@theauggieboygamer9148]

@@DavidMuri-lm5vy Storm surge is caused by low pressure, and in fact if you watch a video of a hurricane and from inside the eye, you will notice that the storm surge doesn’t cease during the eye

[@lukeguillow]

It is a very interesting thing to experience. We had the eye of Hurricane Floyd in ‘99 come right through our campus. Very very cool.

[@windywendi]

Fun fact hurricanes and typhoons are basically the same thing, just depends on where they happen!

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

They’re call hurricanes if they start in the Atlantic, typhoons in the Pacific and cyclones in the Indian.

[@4nrmike]

Called hurricanes when they develop over the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, these rotating storms are known as cyclones when they form over the South Pacific and Indian Ocean, and typhoons when they develop in the Northwest Pacific.(National Geographic)

[@randomname285]

Bingo

[@tauceti8060]

Why no hurricanes in the south atlantic or the south pacific off the west coast of South America.

[@zecuse]

@@tauceti8060 It's believed the upper jet stream in the Southern Atlantic has too much shear current to allow a storm to properly form in most circumstances. The upper layers sort of tear the storm apart.

[@cerosis]

Storms are super neat!

[@baddreams4368]

neat ain’t the word that I’d use

[@AcrylicThePartygoer]

@@baddreams4368 it's the word i'd use, especially for supercells with that pretty blue lightning flashing in the clouds

[@Xelaria]

Good to know, I’ll keep an eye out for them.

[@nicksamek12]

Do hurricanes leave any evidence of their passing in the geological record? Or are they relegated to records in trees?

[@Javier-mc4pc]

Most notable record I can remember are some sedimentary ones that indicate that a plain has flooded or another one that indicates there was a “tsunami-like-wave” that also flooded the plain. With other evidencies, maybe there is a way to extrapolate that a storm was by, but this isn’t my area of expertise in geology

[@mytube001]

There are a few ways I can think of for how a single, major hurricane could end up in the geological record. 1. Sediments being washed onto land in a particular pattern could end up as a distinct and identifiable feature, a thin layer, in a sedimentary column. 2. Trees breaking and falling over could end up being preserved as fossils, with time even petrified, and keep evidence of being knocked over by strong wind. 3. In a silty or sandy area, patterns of wind-blown sediment could end up being preserved and possibly be identifiable as a hurricane event thousands to hundreds of thousands of years later.

[@Distress.]

There was a study I read last year that examined the sediment in underwater sinkholes or blue holes to see how many hurricanes occurred in the past.

[@erich930]

Big tsunamis can leave evidence in the geologic record, so I guess if a hurricane moved a bunch of sediment it could leave some kind of record.

[@whiptongue7268]

What a coincidence, I just started learning about hurricanes in school in geography today

[@CherryBlossom-lg9nq]

In the eye of a hurricane there is quiet...for just a moment

[@whoeveriam0iam14222]

cool. last time I looked up videos of the inside of the eye of a hurricane there weren't any good videos on youtube now there's a year old video of someone making it through with video

[@alexlubbers1589]

Oftentimes the eye of a hurricane clouds over as it makes landfall, or it makes landfall at night. Hurricane Michael had an incredibly clear eye at landfall and theres some good footage, as well as Jim Edds' footage of Hurricane Dorian in the bahamas with a perfectly clear eye. And a few videos from Hurricane Hunter planes of various storms too!

[@TaliesinMyrddin]

Never immediately go outside when the sun comes out 'after' a hurricane, and never go into where the ocean was if it starts to recede.

[@potapotapotapotapotapota]

I only been in the eye of a storm once while driving on the highway for a holiday with family. We had to pull over on the shoulder because the wind was too strong, but then 30 min later it just went super calm, yet you could see darkness all around you. Back then my child brain thought it was ok to keep driving but my parents knew better and we waited it out - even though other cars around us were beginning to drive again.

[@OrangeSheepPlayz]

Cool video! Nice job with animation!

[@darkness-fx5hs]

You look up, beautiful sky’s, with the sun shining down on you. Look around you, 90+ MPH winds surrounding you.

[@rafaelperalta1676]

Thanks for explaining the eye!

[@jeremyude]

Great video :)

[@HurricaneChaserChase]

Very great explanation!

[@fiuextreme]

Thank you for sharing!

[@ardensetiawan353]

Explaining hurricane's spiral fluid movement with sink drain. Other people: "Ah, understandable." Me, with trypophobia: "MYEYESAAAAAAA"

[@typhoonnamikaze1567]

I really like tracking storms especially at Typhoon Seasons

[@user-db9wr6ho9f]

Eye am the storm that is approaching.

[@IdoN_Tlikethis]

fun fact: circle pits at metal/hardcore shows also have an eye

[@Jamesssssssssssssss]

It's not that sudden, it's more like a gradual fading in and out. And living in Florida has brought the unique circumstances of living through multiple hurricanes and finding myself in the eye.

[@Swenthorian]

I've actually been through the eye of a hurricane before!

[@Pottery4Life]

Thank you.

[@jonathanvidal421]

That’s my school!! FIU is amazing for anyone interested in attending

[@Lodada]

I remember this from the episode of Avatar the last Airbender: “The Storm”

[@DianaLopez-dq8sy]

Proud to be an FIU GOLDEN PANTHER!!! 💛💙🐾 #PawsUp! 🥰

[@clussylove]

I've lived through a lot of hurricanes most resent was hurricane Michael which was the scariest one by far.

[@jm94008]

I see Otis was used as an example and was correctly labelled as a C5, thank you!

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

“Since, in a lot of ways, air acts like a fluid.” Air *IS* a fluid. In scientific/engineering, there are three primary states of matter. Solid, *LIQUID*, and _gas_. Both liquid and gas are “fluid”. Hence the term “fluid dynamics”. Or when referring to some substances at extremes of temperature and/or pressure, they might be called a “superfluid” because they act in ways unlike either liquid or gas. (The atmosphere of Venus is this way - at the cloud tops, it’s a conventional gas like our atmosphere. But as you get close to the surface, the pressure is such that it *should* be a liquid; but because of the high temperature, it remains still gas-like, while having some liquid properties - it’s a superfluid. There is no direct boundary, either. Unlike the very obvious boundary on Earth between, say, the ocean and the air; on Venus, the atmosphere just gradually gets denser, until it’s a superfluid, with no obvious boundary layer.)

[@user-xj8wy4uu1q]

Supercritical, not superfluid

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

@@user-xj8wy4uu1q Supercritical fluids are generally called “superfluid”

[@davidjennings2179]

I hear this sort of thing often from science communicators where a word has a different meaning in day to day life. Most people conflate fluid with liquid. It's better to be technically wrong, but by the time people understand that they know what you mean, than to confuse those who are just starting out in a subject

[@SerifSansSerif]

It's funny. I went outside in the middle of hurricane sandy when it was in NJ. Lots wind for a while, it settle down and just felt super eerie (this was at night, not day, btw), and then about half an hour to an hour later, the winds again.

[@RJ_Ehlert]

Nice.

[@staceyannchevalier8055]

This is cool

[@lexibyday9504]

so storms above Cat5 aren't just faster, more violent, and more destructive; they're also quieter with a much longer pause as you pass through the eye. An end of the world storm like so many companies wanted to make movies about would hit as insane winds hitting one direction and shreading everything people had to hide under then, after several days of silence, equally strong winds hit from the other direction levelling anything left standing.

[@Lilwolfie144]

I watched this, then had a dream about being in the eye of a hurricane and my mom not caring “MOM WE ARE IN THE EYE” help 😭

[@NEXfanman]

Fortnite storm lore:

[@Idrinkmotoroileveryday]

Fr

[@jianalexander1359]

No cap

[@caomouse8829]

Hurricane likes to trick you with a false sense of security, and then strike again just to dunk on you.

[@aidkik580]

"Lets start in the bath tub, hi im kate!" You had me from "kate"❤

[@SaltySparrow]

It would be fascinating to follow the eye and see as the eye walls collapse.

[@maverick9708]

"can hit you without warning" Ahh yes, those really subtle sneaky hurricanes are always playing hide and seek with people

[@johndemeritt3460]

I was on my way home to a neighborhood in League City, Texas from University of Houston, Clear Lake when I encountered a deluge. I'd been watching the tropical weather forecasts on the NHC site. They said there was "an area of disturbed weather off the upper Texas coast" when I left for UHCL that morning. By 2 PM, the "area of disturbed weather" had become Tropical Storm Allison, dropping about a foot of rain in the first hour. So, yeah -- they can be sneaky buggers!

[@smurfyday]

A great man once said: "The eye is not just the window to the soul. It is the key to unlocking your greatness. It is the key, because when you see it, you will be it."

[@IWannawatchyoutube-uh8wp]

“INSIDE OF THE EYE OF THE HURRICANE THERE IS WATER…”

[@sethsevaroth]

I know the answer but another good hurricane explainer video would be why are winds often much worse on one side of a hurricane?

[@V1489Cygni]

If the air swirls up rather than down, shouldn't an upside down cone be formed?

[@beanstheorem8727]

Of course the water goes down and the air goes up. That’s where the energy is being released- gravity pulls water down into the drain, while warm air gets pulled up due to convection, and because it can’t reality go down and into the ground.

[@panjiagung8245]

Wait, so "that" film (forgot the name) lied to us when they pictured the eyed as the coldest part?

[@sv4647]

Being in the hurricane eye while on land 🏡😮 Being in the hurricane eye while in sea🌊💀

[@whuzzzup]

And how would you get surprised by the upcoming other side of the hurricane? I mean, you are surrounded by a giant cloud wall on all sides that should make it pretty obvious what will happen next?

[@dhawthorne1634]

You have no concept of scale. The smallest eyes are 20 miles wide, regularly reaching up to 40 miles. Even 20 years ago there was no real path prediction. Reports were "it looks like it's headed for the gulph"; followed by "its likely to make landfall near New Orleans around mid-day or early evening". With power knocked out, you had no idea how close you were to the eye. If it passed over you, you could easily think that you had made it through the leading edge and the storm had passed.

[@revinhatol]

"And I feel fine." - REM

[@bobthegoat7090]

Waking up in the morning, you see the beautiful weather, a clear sky and the sun shining with an embracing warmth from above. So you quickly get out of bed to get your mail and sit on your porch chair looking through your mail, yelling for your wife to get you a nice cup of warm coffee. Then, just as your wife opens the door to give you your hot cup of Joe, you are both swept away by 150 mph (250 kmh) winds. Hurling your bodies around like twigs, and drenching your wife in hot coffee... All because you never realized you woke up just as you were in the eye of a hurricane.

[@mlgoreable]

AIR IS A FLUID GODDAMN

[@azhari7968]

does the coriolis effect take part in it?

[@ideeit7630]

The devil said, "you cannot outrun the storm" I replied, "nuh uh I got shockwaves"

[@dlwah]

its like a storm border in video games

[@knightshade6232]

Were in the Philippines we experience 20 plus typhoons 🌀 each year... Most pf us hope storm eyes wont land on us .

[@typhoonnamikaze1567]

Ni- 11 bagyo lang pumasok sa PAR (9 tropical cyclones less) noong nakaraang taon. Wala po tayong magagawa kundi maghanda at/o magdasal kase kada taon po ay kahit ≥1 diyan ay makapaminsala.

[@Kerosiin]

The air is rising because it is warm , making it less dense than air higher in the atmosphere which has expanded and cooled off. It’s what’s fuelling the hurricane too, as when the air rises and cools, the water condenses and that’s what forms the massive clouds. This condensation releases energy stored by the water vapour, allowing more uplift to occur. It’s why hurricanes build over warm seas and why they decline once hitting land; no warm moist air for uplift. Also, despite air sinking in the eye, suppressing cloud formation, it’s the lowest pressure area of the hurricane because the air is constantly getting drawn out by the swirling

[@EdibleREAL]

I thought you would mention laputa reference

[@ThePhoenixpaw]

Don't just show a small note when you say Degree which scale you use. Say out loud if it's Kelvin , Celsius, Fahrenheit, Rankine, and/or Newton ... because those 20 degrees make HUGE difference, or barely noticeable, depending on scale.

[@halyoalex8942]

I thought the thumbnail was an airbender with a beard for a solid 5 seconds before I saw what channel this video was from. :D

[@plina330]

i two:)

[@pawnhearts8785]

In the eye of a hurricane there is quiet For the just a moment A yellow sky

[@sebastienmolano]

So it's just a bigger form of a tornado!❤

[@tiffanymarie9750]

Ah, Florida elementary school science class flashbacks. Next video will be about the Everglades and Florida fauna/flora.

[@xerosfs]

Strong enough tornadoes have also been seen with eyes that even showed up on radar!

[@Simplifried]

I forgot for a second that the minute earth characters don’t have faces so I thought the person with a ponytail in the thumbnail was a person with their eyes closed eating a dollop of hay. Take away all my degrees now please.

[@varoonnone7159]

There are cautionary tales of the eyes of cyclones in Mauritius. How housewives went out to hang clothes thinking the cyclone had gone away

[@pyeitme508]

Wow

[@schwarz8614]

Air doesn't just act like a fluid, it literally is a fluid. All gases and liquids are fluids.

[@bijoychandraroy]

just went through Renal

[@justpro8188]

In the eye of the hurricane there is quite…. For just a moment

[@JohnJCB]

I mean, they need an eye to see.

[@anasbouallagui9845]

🤦‍♂️

[@davidaugustofc2574]

​@@anasbouallagui9845you need humour to get a joke

[@luisguerra6891]

Why PiP is just working for this specific video?

[@jimruffatto4261]

‘’ in the eye of the hurricane there is quiet mm’

[@incineration242]

lol

[@officaltnf6888]

big brain idea if you somehow still have your car just drive with the eye

[@nimomemre6550]

I was hoping, they'll explain the instant freezing scene of Hurricane eye in movie "Day after Tomorrow" ! But they didn't 😐 If you know please explain .... It's real or an exaggeration ?

[@supercharas153]

Not real at all! Hurricanes can not survive in cold anyway!

[@SilasBourgeois]

I was in the eye of hurricane zedda

[@alexvandu1]

Shocked science is this a thing in FL

[@rahulshanbhag08]

Fun fact: The direction of spin depends on which hemisphere it is in

[@johndemeritt3460]

Quick quiz: which way does a tropical cyclone's circulation spin in the Eastern Hemisphere?

[@MateusSFigueiredo]

Do people look at the massive storm surrounding them completely, 360 degrees, and decide to go outside?

[@wvking]

They can’t see them, its too far away

[@include-bit]

​@@wvkingthen why cant you just look at it?

[@purplecouch4767]

Did Pirates of the Caribbean mention something about the eye of the storm?

[@Sp1n022]

all vortexes have eyes this includes hurricanes, waterspouts, tornadoes

[@qtgaming6902]

Wait wouldn't that mean its draining upwards?

[@Kassidar]

In a lot of ways water acts like a fluid ...yes

[@AdHocF1]

Why use metric (4 cm/400 km) and then imperial (20 °F) as your main measurement in the same video?

[@include-bit]

canada

[@AdHocF1]

@@include-bit That’s no reason. It’s okay to use both, just be consistent with it.

[@nofrbls3640]

@@AdHocF1 because its their channel and their video and they felt like it

[@AdHocF1]

@@nofrbls3640 I don’t think your argument holds up considering MinuteEarth is all about science and scientific accuracy. They literally teach us lessons about what’s best for society and the world, so I don’t think consistency is particularly negligible in this case.

[@Bannun_]

Water does that because it needs air flow to get quicker

[@lautaromorales2903]

Mi bebito FIU FIU

[@noeltorres9175]

Hurricane 👍

[@lindaelse7352]

If you can’t evacuate a hurricane, then why don’t you just wait till you’re in the eye, and drive in the same direction, still in the eye, and wait till the hurricane dies.