Eye wall: The most dangerous part of the storm. It’s the only place you will find the maximum winds that determine the “strength” of the hurricane. Hurricane-force winds: Winds that are 74 ...

The eye of a hurricane can sometimes take on what is known as the "stadium effect," which some experts have captured on camera Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE.

Flight pattern of hurricane hunters as they fly into the center of Lee. After taking off from Lakeland, Florida, the crew flew east-southeast for two hours toward the eye wall, plowing through 115 ...

For Freddy, scientists from the US National Hurricane Center, experts in monitoring hurricanes through satellite imagery, and national weather service meteorologists from around the Indian Ocean ...

Other long-lasting hurricanes include the 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane and Hurricane Tina in 1994. Freddy will surpass Hurricane John as the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record. The San Ciriaco ...