‘Stadium effect’ captured in eye of Hurricane Melissa

A rare look into the eye of a category 5 storm has been captured by a US Air Force plane flying through Hurricane Melissa.
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The footage revealed a unique perspective of the storm known as the stadium effect, which is when the wall of clouds around the eye resemble a sports stadium.

The hurricane is the strongest the island has faced since records began in 1851, and the world’s most powerful so far this year.

“An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft has found that Melissa is strengthening with maximum sustained winds of 180mph (290km/h),” the National Hurricane Center wrote in a post on X.

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