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tropical disturbance

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noun

Meteorology.
  1. a very weak, or incipient, tropical cyclone.


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A tropical disturbance that is trailing Bret has a 50% chance of formation, according to the National Hurricane Center.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2023

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

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 Rolt-Wheeler, Francis