tropical cyclone
a warm-core cyclone that originates over a tropical ocean area, generally beginning as a tropical depression and having the potential to intensify and develop into a hurricane or typhoon, classifications that depend on where the storm is occurring.
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Origin of tropical cyclone
1- Compare extratropical cyclone, subtropical cyclone.
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How to use tropical cyclone in a sentence
However, records for rainfall from tropical cyclones in the United States only go back to the 1940s, making it difficult to gauge long-term trends.
300 years of tree rings show just how badly hurricanes have soaked the Carolinas | Kate Baggaley | October 5, 2021 | Popular-ScienceMaxwell and his team parsed through records of precipitation from tropical cyclones that passed through the Carolinas from June 1 to October 15 over the past seven decades.
300 years of tree rings show just how badly hurricanes have soaked the Carolinas | Kate Baggaley | October 5, 2021 | Popular-ScienceOf all weather disasters, tropical cyclones — including hurricanes — cost the most in damages and result in the highest death tolls.
Why Past Hurricane Seasons Don’t Tell Us Much About The Future | Anna Wiederkehr (anna.wiederkehr@abc.com) | October 5, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThe average surface temperature of the world’s oceans is increasing, and warmer sea surfaces are the perfect environment for tropical cyclones to brew.
Why Past Hurricane Seasons Don’t Tell Us Much About The Future | Anna Wiederkehr (anna.wiederkehr@abc.com) | October 5, 2021 | FiveThirtyEight“There is higher-than-normal confidence that a strengthening tropical cyclone will be moving over the Gulf this weekend,” the Hurricane Center wrote.
A strong hurricane is forecast to strike the Gulf Coast by Monday | Matthew Cappucci, Jason Samenow | August 26, 2021 | Washington Post
tropical cyclone Oswald has produced a blanketing of sea foam in parts of Queensland, Australia.
On September 18 a tropical cyclone was central near these islands.
Scientific definitions for tropical cyclone
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