storm center

noun

1. the center of a cyclonic storm, the area of lowest pressure and of comparative calm.
2. a center of disturbance, tumult, or trouble:

   The housing bubble was the storm center of the economic collapse.

storm center

1. The point of lowest barometric pressure within the central area of a storm.

Word History and Origins

Origin of storm center¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Once more these far-famed Hudson Highlands were to become the storm center of the struggle.

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We're on the right tack for the Southern Ocean; but the storm-center is overtaking us faster than we can drift away from it.

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Such an elevated mass naturally becomes a storm center, attracting moisture-laden clouds.

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For Haeckel has been a storm center of the cyclonic movements that have swept over the whole earth during the last century.

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They worked under cover, less openly than in the old days, but still a storm-center of trouble.

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