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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The eye is the center, and that’s where warm air rises up and cools to generate rain for the storm. Once that is over land, there is far less water entering the storm, and therefore, the storm starts decreasing in power.
A hurricane can hit Florida, make landfall there, and then continue over the Gulf of Mexico, gaining power and make landfall in Texas as a much more powerful storm. That same storm can hit Georgia, but then be dead by the time it reaches Mississippi
The eye is also pretty easy to see and predict, where as the outer edges of the storm vary a lot
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