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noun Meteorology.

a very weak, or incipient, tropical cyclone.

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Words nearby tropical disturbance

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How to use tropical disturbance in a sentence

On November 9, a tropical disturbance brewing in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean gained enough strength to become a subtropical storm.
With Theta, 2020 sets the record for most named Atlantic storms|Curtis Segarra|November 10, 2020|Science News
Mistletoes on mesquite trees in central Mexico have been linked to a greater abundance of tropical bird species.
Mistletoe is the Vampire of Plants|Helen Thompson|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As a precaution against a possible disturbance, the ferry was escorted by a police boat, its blue lights flashing.
‘I Can’t Breathe!’ ‘I Can’t Breathe!’ A Moral Indictment of Cop Culture|Michael Daly|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“I think that there will be an ability that people will get to have their voice heard without disturbance,” Bratton said.
After No Indictment for Eric Garner Killer, Is NYC the Next Ferguson?|Jacob Siegel|December 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The abandoned barracks of the Liberian Army lay just beyond in the tropical thicket.
The Life of a Liberian Child with Ebola|Sarah Crowe|November 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A tropical storm, clearly visible on radar for days, is to blame.
Nepal’s Deadliest Avalanche Was Totally Avoidable|Dick Dorworth|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Tyrannus melancholicus chloronotus Berlepsch: Tropical Kingbird.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
“I fretted and fumed all next day, and raised a great disturbance,” rejoined the old gentleman.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
The graceful flying-fish, like a fair white bird, goes glancing above the blue magnificence of the tropical seas.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
The intensity of this drama, however, being interior, caused little outward disturbance that casual onlookers need have noticed.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
Then Gaubert returned with a tale that you had been killed and that there was a disturbance in the Champs aux Capuchins.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini