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    When the clouds nearly close up
overhead and leave only a small 
circle of sky, it's a Fishbowl Effect.

    You fly another 105 nautical miles away from the eye to measure the extent of damaging winds in that quadrant of the storm, then turn to intercept the next inbound leg in the "Alpha pattern", which looks like a giant "X" crossing the storm. Less than two hours after the last time you penetrated the eye, you're there again! In fact, you'll penetrate the eye a total of four times on this flight, until the next Hurricane Hunter airplane is on its way to take over.