Usually the smaller the eye, the higher the peak winds. It's sort of
like when a skater pulls her arms in, she spins faster. Isabel is not
playing by these usual rules.

Perry wrote:

It's huge. Is there a correlation between the size of an eye and the
strength of a hurricane?

"Steve Okonski" wrote in message
...
Amazingly large eye for such a powerful storm, something like 70 miles
wide. I imagine that's at least partially due to or connected with
the excellent outflow: all that outflow air has to pass through the
eye. If the outflow was not as good, there would not be as much air
passing through the eye and the eye would tighten up.


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