In this fascinating satellite radar image found through the Cyclone Center project, Typhoon Winnie (1997) displays an interesting feature of some strong tropical cyclones: a double ring of winds around the eye, called concentric eyewalls. Typically, as a storm like this continues, the inner eyewall will eventually dissipate as it is robbed of energy by the outer eyewall, called the “eyewall replacement cycle.”
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