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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The smaller the eye, the stronger the wind?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I'm no weather expert, but because the "eye" is the "calm" part of the storm, maybe having a really small one means less calmness is in the storm. elmofire

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The best I could find with some research was the Dvorak Technique used to measure cyclone intensity from visible and infrared images.

Also from Wikipedia:

While typical mature storms have eyes that are a few dozen miles across, rapidly intensifyingstorms can develop an extremely small, clear, and circular eye, sometimes referred to as a pinhole eye. Storms with pinhole eyes are prone to large fluctuations in intensity, and provide difficulties and frustrations for forecasters.[7]

Lastly I would guess it has to do with plain angular momentum. A cyclone that contracts will spin faster, if angular momentum is constant, in the same way that a figure skater speeds up when they tuck in their arms.