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warm sector

American  

noun

Meteorology.

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

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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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.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2021

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2021

This pattern tends to develop in a warm sector - the air mass stuck between a warm front and a cold front.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2015

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