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Credit: NASA via Ron Garan
Astronaut Ron Garan tweeted this picture of Hurricane Irene from the International Space Station on August 24, 2011: "Ominous view #FromSpace of Hurricane #Irene east of the Bahamas @ 3:14pm EST today. East FL coast is calm b4 storm."
The swirl reminds me of a galaxy.
I never realized before that there was an eye in a hurricane as there is in a tornado.
Yup. The eye of a hurricane is a quiet and calm time after the frenzy of the storm, and a lot of people think that it's over and venture out. Of course, as soon as the eye passes over, the storm resumes in full fury. The eye of a hurricane runs about 20-40 miles across so it can be nice and quiet for an hour or two.