How to Use tropical cyclone in a Sentence
tropical cyclone
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Kathleen was was the first tropical cyclone to hit the San Diego area since 1939.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
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In conditions that won't form a tropical cyclone, this is the end of the line.
—Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
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The Gulf Coast faces a 30% threat of a tropical cyclone over the next few days, as low pressure continues to form.
—Max Golembo, ABC News, 12 July 2022
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In fact, 97% of all tropical cyclones in the Atlantic form during the season.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
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The forecast is for 4-6-foot tropical cyclone surf on Sunday, the first day of the event, with larger waves on Monday.
—Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 July 2021
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Ordinarily the strongest winds in a tropical cyclone occur to the right of the center, in this case to the east.
—Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2021
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Shaheen was the first tropical cyclone to make landfall along Oman’s northern coast since 1890 and only the third on record.
—Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
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On the heels of Typhoon In-fa is the potential for a new tropical cyclone to form in the western Pacific Ocean.
—Jackson Dill, CNN, 22 July 2021
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On Sunday, the tropical wave has moved off of the African west coast and has a 40% chance of tropical cyclone development in the next 5 days.
—Elainie Barraza, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2022
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The first tropical cyclone to make landfall on the west coast of Florida in 2020 will be Elsa in July.
—NBC News, 6 July 2021
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Experts predict at least one more tropical cyclone could form in the Atlantic basin this year.
—Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
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The last tropical cyclone to make landfall on the west coast of Florida in 2020 was Eta last November.
—NBC News, 6 July 2021
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In the past three years, the US has seen at least one tropical cyclone make landfall in October and November.
—Judson Jones, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020
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Laura, now a post-tropical cyclone, is moving east towards the Mid-Atlantic states with winds of about 25 mph.
—Christina Maxouris, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020
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In Oman, a rare tropical cyclone dumped years' worth of rainfall, bringing deadly floods to the desert landscape that rarely sees much rain in an entire year.
—Pedram Javaheri, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
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About 90% of tropical cyclone deaths in the United States are from water, not wind, Brennan noted.
—Max Chesnes, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
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Those systems include one in the eastern Atlantic with a 70% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone over the next five days.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2020
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The busiest tropical cyclone basin is in the western Pacific, where there are the most landfalls and the shift westward is twice as big as the global average.
—Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
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Martin transitioned to a post-tropical cyclone on Nov. 3 but remained a large and strong storm over the north-central Atlantic for a few more days.
—Leigh Morgan, al, 30 Nov. 2022
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In fact, the long-term average for July tropical cyclones in the Atlantic is only 1.
—Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024
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And Teddy, now a a post-tropical cyclone, has reached Nova Scotia.
—Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 23 Sep. 2020
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The center gives this area to watch a 40% chance of tropical cyclone formation by Sunday morning.
—Jackson Dill and Haley Brink, CNN, 21 May 2021
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The storm system has since weakened as of Wednesday morning and has become a post-tropical cyclone for the second time, according to the NHC.
—Fox News, 23 Sep. 2020
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Dry air, of course, saps the thunderstorms that are essential to forming a tropical cyclone.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2022
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One showed Hurricane Gilbert, which used to be the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.
—Claire Grunewald, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
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In the south Pacific and Indian Ocean, a storm is known simply as a tropical cyclone, regardless of the strength of the winds or intensity of the storm.
—Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 10 July 2020
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The state had already been battered by a tropical cyclone last September, when more than 30 people were killed.
—Fox News, 3 May 2024
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Rogers’ team found that, aided by a new, regular source of data, the forecast of the tropical cyclone’s track improved by 15 percent.
—Meghan Herbst, Wired, 25 June 2021
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The study found that globally in the last four decades, the tropical cyclone intensification rate has grown by 3 knots per 24 hours.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 2 May 2024
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No other Atlantic hurricane in the past decade has made landfall on U.S. shores so early in tropical cyclone season, which began in June.
—Scott Dance, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
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