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tropical cyclone

/trop-i-kuhl sahy-klohn/US // ˈtrɒp ɪ kəl ˈsaɪ kloʊn //

热带气旋,热带旋风,热带飓风

Related Words

cyclone旋风,龙卷风,气旋,旋风式hurricane飓风,暴风骤雨,飓风来袭,飓风来了tempest暴风雨,暴风雪,暴风骤雨,暴雨typhoon台风,颱风,台湾,泰晤士报

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Meteorology.

    • : a warm-core cyclone that originates over a tropical ocean area, generally beginning as a tropical depression and having the potential to intensify and develop into a hurricane or typhoon, classifications that depend on where the storm is occurring.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nountropical storm
Synonyms
cyclone旋风,龙卷风,气旋,旋风式hurricane飓风,暴风骤雨,飓风来袭,飓风来了tempest暴风雨,暴风雪,暴风骤雨,暴雨typhoon台风,颱风,台湾,泰晤士报violent rain storm猛烈的暴雨,猛烈暴雨,暴雨,猛烈的风暴

Examples

  • Maxwell and his team parsed through records of precipitation from tropical cyclones that passed through the Carolinas from June 1 to October 15 over the past seven decades.

  • However, records for rainfall from tropical cyclones in the United States only go back to the 1940s, making it difficult to gauge long-term trends.

  • The average surface temperature of the world’s oceans is increasing, and warmer sea surfaces are the perfect environment for tropical cyclones to brew.

  • Of all weather disasters, tropical cyclones — including hurricanes — cost the most in damages and result in the highest death tolls.

  • “There is higher-than-normal confidence that a strengthening tropical cyclone will be moving over the Gulf this weekend,” the Hurricane Center wrote.

  • Mistletoes on mesquite trees in central Mexico have been linked to a greater abundance of tropical bird species.

  • The abandoned barracks of the Liberian Army lay just beyond in the tropical thicket.

  • A tropical storm, clearly visible on radar for days, is to blame.

  • As I ended my call with Mooney, he was monitoring tropical storm Gonzalo as it was developing into a classified hurricane.

  • From deep within, looking up at the tropical sky is like staring through the dome of some kind of earthen cathedral.

  • Tyrannus melancholicus chloronotus Berlepsch: Tropical Kingbird.

  • The graceful flying-fish, like a fair white bird, goes glancing above the blue magnificence of the tropical seas.

  • The soil of Cuba is prolific, and the variety of tropical plants and fruits grown upon the island is quite remarkable.

  • I had once been in a tropical calm, and I really, after trying them both, prefer the breezes and thunder-storms.

  • Fortunately, hurricanes are limited to a very small part of the tropical district.

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