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supercell

/soo-per-sel/US // ˈsu pərˌsɛl //

超级大电池,超级大军,超级大风球,超级大军团

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Meteorology.

    • : a highly organized thunderstorm that can last for several hours, capable of producing both updrafts and downdrafts exceeding 100 miles per hour, large hailstones, tornadoes, and flash flooding: a supercell in Kansas City;supercell storms.

Examples

  • Such tremendously high values almost always indicate large hail, in the context of a supercell.

  • These factors favor clusters or arc-shaped complexes of strong to severe thunderstorms, and possibly a few supercells or rotating thunderstorms.

  • They sounded as a long-track supercell or rotating thunderstorm dropped tornadoes while leaving behind several pockets of damage.

  • Severe weather in the Upper Midwest caused a few spectacular looking supercells to form Wednesday.

  • Unlike the better-known rotating supercells, however, derechos form from long bands of swiftly moving thunderstorms, sometimes called squall lines.