Inside the eye of a hurricane:
A) air is sinking and warming by compression.
B) the air temperature is colder than anywhere else in the storm.
C) the skies are usually perfectly clear, with no clouds to be seen.
D) the most intense thunderstorms of the hurricane are forming.
A
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