What do we call the calm center of a hurricane?

 

(Wind and Rain During the Hurricane, ca. 1926, Credit: HistoryMiami 1992-458-1)

Florida is one of the states in the U.S. with the most coastline. With our location close to the Caribbean, we are also in the line of storms forming in the tropics called hurricanes. A hurricane is a whirling doughnut of wind circulating around a calm center.

A. The eye