warm sector

American  

noun

Meteorology.

1. the region of warmest air bounded by the cold and warm fronts of a cyclone.

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warm sector British  

noun

1. meteorol a wedge of warm air between the warm and cold fronts of a depression, which is eventually occluded See also cold front warm front

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Example Sentences

The ideal setup in the D.C. area for these conditions is a springtime “warm sector,” in which a large-scale region of low pressure tracks to the north and west of our region.

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Heavy rain: This is the most widespread anticipated hazard, given very humid air imported by ex-Ida’s tropical air mass, and increased moisture pulled northward into the warm sector of the transforming storm.

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Rainfall will fall in the form of several heavy showers, as thunderstorm cells organize into bandlike structures in the warm sector of the storm.

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“If the warm sector tracks a bit further north, this could put the Washington D.C. region in play for a few strong to possibly severe storms,” said Jeff Halverson, Capital Weather Gang’s severe weather expert, in an email.

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As we get into the storm’s warm sector Thursday, brisk southerly winds will tap moisture from as far away as the tropics, as shown below.

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