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GOES-19 satellite images captured a rare phenomenon in Hurricane Melissa: the movement of mesovortices within its eye. A meteorological spectacle that combines beauty, energy, and the unstoppable force of nature.
The eye of Hurricane Melissa, as captured by the GOES-19 satellite, reveals moving mesovortices, a rare phenomenon within intense cyclones. Credit: CIRA/NOAANature rarely manages to both captivate and terrify. The stunning images of Hurricane Melissa‘s eye, captured by the GOES-19 satellite and released by the Cooperative Institute for Atmospheric Research (CIRA), have left the world in awe. They show a perfectly choreographed move
ment of mesovortices —small internal eddies that spin inside the eye of the cyclone—, giving life to a spectacle that seems more like a celestial dance than an extreme meteorological phenomenon.The sequence shows how Melissa’s eye reo
rganises itself in a matter of hours. What at first glance appears as a hypnotic spiral is, in reality, the manifestation of the most complex physics of the tropical atmosphere: the balance between centrifugal force, planetary rotation, and thermal energy released by the condensation of water vapour.A
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