Hurricane eyes - hexagon-shaped holes?

[ElecGeekMom]

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/0 ... orbit.html

[Osmosis]

Could it be that hurricane eyes are another hexagon-shaped crater in a plasma cloud? If the EU scales, perhaps the storm is just another plasma discharge, under all that rain.

[MGmirkin]

Was there any one in specific you felt was particularly hexagonal? I guess I'm not quite seeing it. Though, from various articles about electrical activity in the eye walls and the electric fields measured over some of them, I've no doubt that there can be a significant electrical character to the bad boys...

Whether it's a driving force or a byproduct is yet to be determined. But it's interesting either way.

~Michael Gmirkin

[ElecGeekMom]

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[webolife]

Don't know what's wrong with Michael, today, I saw those hexagonal eyes right away
Wind shear in the wall clouds of the hurricane must have a huge effect on the electrical environment of the eye.
We see how this results in hexagonal structure in a variety of fields at several different scales including the remarkable north polar cloud hexagon on Saturn. I'm all for a less chaotic interpretation of eye structure than is commonly given.

[davesmith_au]

Actually, though I notice the hexagonal shape in a few, the first polygonal one (#3 I think) looks five-sided, not six. Nevertheless, it's all very interesting stuff indeed. I can't help but notice the similarity between hurricane pictures such as these, and some of the galaxy images we see. Hmmmm.

Cheers, Dave Smith.

PS - Great find, Mom!

[Osmosis]

Diocotron instabilities, causing hurricane eyes? This would be very hard to instrument!