A video recently captured on board an airplane that flew into Florence's eye, revealed a stunning view of the bowl-shaped air pocket amid the whipping winds and clouds.
Time-lapse footage, published at livescience.com, showed the aircraft surrounded by dense, gray clouds, then breaking through them into an eerily still center with a brilliant blue sky overhead. The deceptively calm eye lies at the heart of the most powerful storm to date in the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season.