(Meteorologist)

Wed Sep 07 2005 02:12 PM

Re: Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms off Florida East Coast

I referred to it as the "apparent" eye because I was not willing to describe it as a true eye. I'm not sure that there really is a scientific definition of an "eye", but weaker systems will have an eye-like feature on radar before they develop an eye that is visible from satellite imagery. Eyes (i.e. a relatively calm region at the center of the storm) don't spontaneously form when the system becomes a hurricane.

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