Why is landfall marked and counted down to when the eye of the hurricane hits, when it seems all the damaging parts are not the eye at all?
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Think of the hurricane as a spinning top, and the eye is the point that it spins on.
If you spin a top on a table and there is playing card laying on that table, at what point do you consider the top to be “on the card”? When the big spinny bulbous part is overlapping it? Nope, it’s not officially “on the card” until the tip that the top spins on is actually on the card.
That’s the same logic for landfall. “When is the hurricane officially on land, and not on the water?”
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