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storm center
noun
- the center of a cyclonic storm, the area of lowest pressure and of comparative calm.
- a center of disturbance, tumult, or trouble:
The housing bubble was the storm center of the economic collapse.
storm center
- The point of lowest barometric pressure within the central area of a storm.
Word History and Origins
Origin of storm center1
Example Sentences
As opposed to the intermittent showers in the warm sector, steady and heavy rain was the rule just to the north and west of the storm center.
The heaviest snow usually occurs northwest of the storm center, but sometimes snow bands can develop that pivot back to the south.
Once more these far-famed Hudson Highlands were to become the storm center of the struggle.
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.
Such an elevated mass naturally becomes a storm center, attracting moisture-laden clouds.
For Haeckel has been a storm center of the cyclonic movements that have swept over the whole earth during the last century.
They worked under cover, less openly than in the old days, but still a storm-center of trouble.
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