TROPICAL CYCLONE Definition & Meaning

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tropical cyclone

[ trop-i-kuhl sahy-klohn ]

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noun

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.

tropical cyclone

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of tropical cyclone¹

First recorded in 1915–20

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"It really doesn't matter to us whether it's been downgraded from a tropical cyclone to a weather event," he said.

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Four million people are in the firing line of the region's first tropical cyclone in more than half a century, which is expected to make landfall on Saturday.

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The tropical cyclone left more than 180,000 homes without power and 170,000 without running water after making landfall on Friday morning.

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The system is expected to slowly intensify over the next 24 hours to tropical cyclone status while approaching the coast of Mozambique.

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The UN's climate body, the IPCC, previously said there is "high confidence" that humans have contributed to increases in precipitation associated with tropical cyclones, and "medium confidence" that humans have contributed to the higher probability of a tropical cyclone being more intense.

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