storm center

The area of lowest atmospheric pressure of a cyclone; this is a more general expression than eye of the storm, which refers only to the center of a well-developed tropical cyclone, in which there is a tendency of the skies to clear.

Related terms:

• eye of the storm
• pressure-fall center
• pressure-rise center
• center jump
• pressure center
• center of action
• center of falls
• center of rises
• katallobaric center
• anallobaric center