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If the eye of a hurricane or cyclone has low
The low pressure at the center of a cyclone's eye is not directly caused by the descending
pressure, shouldn't the rotation be fastest
winds. Instead, it is a result of the Coriolis effect and the convergence of air towards the
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center of the storm. In a cyclone, the Coriolis effect causes the air to rotate around the
center, creating a low-pressure area at the core of the storm. This low pressure then draws
Why is there low atmospheric pressure at the
air inward, including the descending air from higher altitudes, which contributes to the
center of tornados and cyclones?
overall structure of the cyclone.
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Ankit Sambyal
Works at Tower Research Capital · Author has 130 answers and 576K answer views · 7y How is eye of cyclone a low pressure zone
This is because the descending winds in the cyclones’s eye don’t reach near the surface. when air is subsiding at it from the top?
They get adiabatically warmed up on descending and start rising again without reaching the Usually subsiding air is associated with high
surface. Hence the low pressure in the cyclone’s eye persists and gets intensified. pressure below.

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The eye of the hurricane has both high and low pressure.

Low pressure at the surface.

High pressure aloft.

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Why does warm air subside during the formation of cyclones between the eye of a
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I don’t know if it is completely understood but a big part of it is due to mesoscale

subsidence. During the formative stages of a minimal (but intensifying) hurricane, there are
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Yes, there is an anti-cyclone on the upper level of cyclones ie above 500mb level.

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Originally Answered: Why does the eye of a hurricane have low air pressure when air is sinking? I
thought that sinking air results in high air pressure, not low.
It's being sucked in like a vacuum cleaner so of course the air is going to have low pressure
it's not that low it's only like a few millibars but it does have motion so it does create a
vacuum of sorts you're reading too much into that it's not all that complicated try looking at
it from a big picture get overhead view of the hurricane and you'll see what I'm talking about
it's pretty much self-explanatory from that point on
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