[contingo]

Compare https://www.ventusky.com/?p=19.6;-77.9;4&l=wind&w=0xIAb9A9A

[DigitalJack]

That’s my new favorite.

It’s interesting how the wind appears to spiral into the eye near ground level, and out from the eye at 12k meters.

It’s like there is a toroidal shape where on the bottom, wind spirals in towards the eye, transitions to the top in the eyewall and spirals out at the top.

[theoh]

"rising air in the eyewall follows isolines of equal angular momentum, which [also] slope outward with height" (Wikipedia)