weather question

[oldman420]

if you were enduring a hurricane on the ground and the eye passed over you would it become calm and sunny ?
that would be a strange and wonderfull thing to see for sure.
thanks folks
jerome

 

[vegetation]

Most definitely. That is why they tell you to stay indoors even when you hear the wind die down and all seems fine. Radio communication may be cut off by that time so you have no idea on how the storm is progressing. For all you know, you could be in the eye. Go outdoors and stray far from home, the eye will soon pass by and you'll be in a lot of trouble. I believe this is where a significant amount of hurricane related deaths occur.

 

[Chaotic42]

Yes, it's calm, sunny, and if the eye is small, you can see the eye walls around it.

 

[GMElias]

Having been through the tail-end of hurricans here in Maryland, I wouldn't like to see the eye...first of all, you would have to get through all the crap anyway, and if you are still alive....who know!?!?
-Elias

 

[sbuckler]

But can -100 cold just fall out the sky on top of you freezing everything solid watch day after tommorrow if you don't know what I am talking about.

 

[dkozloski]

While in the U.S. Navy, the ship I was on, U.S.S. Goldsborough DDG 20, was in the same typhoon (name for Pacific hurricane) for ten days straight. It was traveling the same direction we were, westerly. We were in and out of the eye several times and it is indeed calm weather wise but the seas are still very disturbed. The signal bridge was 120 feet above the waterline on the guided missile destroyer and we took green water over the top of it. The ride was so rough that virtually everyone on board was seasick at one time or another, even "old salts" with thirty years in service. We took rolls of at least 55 degrees and sustained a lot of topside damage from the force of the water.

 

[bruingent007]

I have no idea what you're talking about? are you referring eye to ice?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: dkozloski
While in the U.S. Navy, the ship I was on, U.S.S. Goldsborough DDG 20, was in the same typhoon (name for Pacific hurricane) for ten days straight. It was traveling the same direction we were, westerly. We were in and out of the eye several times and it is indeed calm weather wise but the seas are still very disturbed. The signal bridge was 120 feet above the waterline on the guided missile destroyer and we took green water over the top of it. The ride was so rough that virtually everyone on board was seasick at one time or another, even "old salts" with thirty years in service. We took rolls of at least 55 degrees and sustained a lot of topside damage from the force of the water.

I hate to question the wisdom of the military... but, why not just go in the opposite direction and exit the typhoon? Unless: to train you for combat situations where you're riding in typhoons, and to cause extra damage to the ships

 

[Sideswipe001]

Originally posted by: bruingent007
I have no idea what you're talking about? are you referring eye to ice?

It's a part of the movie "The day after tommorow" when there is some storm that supposedly starts a new Ice Age (in much of North America anyway). There is an eye to the storm, and part of the show some major characters are in the eye. It's not realistic.

 

[Gravity]

Yes, it's much less windy, not exactly calm and if directly in the eye, sunny.

However, it doesn't last more than a few minutes as the eye is normally small and the storms generally move on 10-20 mph.

Been there, done that!

 

[dkozloski]

DrPizza, we were traveling west and so was the storm. It would have meant not being able to complete the mission which was to continually track a Russian submarine.