tropical disturbance
Americannoun
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The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean that could develop into Tropical Storm Elsa.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2021
If a tropical disturbance nears shore, forecasters also could post advisories or warnings before it develops into a tropical depression or named storm.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2017
This time the culprit was a comparatively weak and unnamed tropical disturbance that Louisianans initially greeted as a mere inconvenience, the Southern equivalent of a New England snow day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2016
Weather forecasters give tropical disturbance 22 a 60 percent chance of becoming at least a tropical depression within the next 48 hours.
From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2010
It came as a good deal of a surprise to us at Galveston because there had been none of the signs which usually go before a bad tropical disturbance.
From The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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