Definition of tropical cyclone
: a cyclone originating in the tropics;
specifically
: hurricane
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The World Meteorological Organization’s hurricane committee said this week that its retiring those names from its rotating list of future Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone name lists.
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The practice of naming tropical cyclones began in the 1950s to help warning messages quickly identify of storms, because names are considered easier to remember than numbers or technical terms.
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If there are more than 21 tropical cyclones in the Atlantic in a year, additional storm names are taken from the Greek alphabet.
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The Bhola cyclone of 1970 that made landfall near here was the deadliest tropical cyclone in more than 140 years of U.N. weather agency records, killing up to a half million people.
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About 150 whales washed ashore in western Australia Friday, most of them now dead, prompting a massive effort to save the survivors as an incoming tropical cyclone approached.
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From strong summertime thunderstorms to tropical cyclones, all coasts of Australia get in on the action during the year.
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The social media numbers were included in the center’s after-storm report, an analysis compiled for every tropical cyclone tracked by the agency.
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Both versions also include a lightning mapper to allow for continuous monitoring — tremendously helpful in severe weather and tropical cyclone forecasting.
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First Known Use of tropical cyclone
1851
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