What Do a Hurricane Look Like

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Surrounding the eye is the eyewall. This is the hurricane’s heavy metal concert—loud, violent, and absolutely unmissable.

It’s a towering ring of thunderstorms, like a skyscraper made of rain and wind. This is where the strongest winds scream at 150 miles per hour, and rain falls sideways in sheets.

If the eye is the silent bowl of the storm, the eyewall is the blender full of lightning and hail. Don’t stick your head in there.

Spiral Rainbands: The Arm Hug You Didn’t Ask For

Stretching out from the eyewall are spiral rainbands. These look like giant arms of clouds wrapping around the storm, like a cosmic octopus trying to give you a hug.

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These bands are where you get those dramatic, squally downpours. They’re the hurricane’s way of saying, "I’m coming." And they keep spinning, one after another, like a badly programmed sprinkler system.

From a satellite image, they make the storm look like a huge, rotating frisbee made of water and fury.