Dr. Kim Wood

to even have an eye, you can start to see an eye wall, which is the really deep thunderstorms that surround the eye.

You can start to see that form in radar when it's like a strong tropical storm.

So it doesn't have to be at the hurricane wind speeds necessarily to start forming that.

But to get the clear eye, it needs to be somewhat strong because you're dealing with...

a lot of balances of forces.

You've got winds moving air in, but then you also have this sinking area because it's warm and clear.

And most of the air at the top of a storm gets evacuated out and away from the center.

But some of it also comes back in and when air sinks, it gets compressed.

Honestly, what you just described is pretty accurate.

But there's a peer-reviewed paper that talks about the ill-fated flight into Hurricane Hugo.

And usually scientific writing is dry.

It's written passively.

It's just trying to state the facts and argue why their conclusions make sense.

There's a paragraph in this paper that for scientific writing reads like poetry.

Because it's talking about the experience of losing an engine while in a hurricane.

And they talk about how far they fell, how close they got to the surface, the white caps they could see on the ocean below because they were in the eye.

So they kind of limped along, slowly gaining altitude back up on their remaining engine.

Until another plane could come in and guide them out.

Oh, my God.

And I'm like, why isn't this a movie?