Is the center of a storm the same thing as its eye or eyewall? What about the location of its strongest winds?
These are similar, but not quite the same thing. The eye of a tropical storm is the roughly circular area of comparatively light winds that encompasses the center. The eye is either completely or partially surrounded by the eyewall cloud, where the strongest winds tend to be. While a storm’s strongest winds, eyewall and center all occur in the same vicinity, they may be far enough apart to matter for the purpose of defining landfall. Because the strongest winds in a tropical cyclone are not located precisely at the center, it is possible for a cyclone’s strongest winds to be experienced over land even if landfall does not occur. Similarly, it is possible for a tropical cyclone to make landfall and have its strongest winds remain over the water.
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