Some articles on tropical:
1962 Atlantic Hurricane Season - Storms - Tropical Storm Becky
... Tropical storm (SSHS) Duration August 27 – August 31 Peak intensity 40 mph (65 km/h), Unknown A tropical disturbance emerged from Africa in late. 28, it was estimated that the depression intensified into a tropical storm ... day, satellite imagery observed a well-developed tropical cyclone in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean ...
... Tropical storm (SSHS) Duration August 27 – August 31 Peak intensity 40 mph (65 km/h), Unknown A tropical disturbance emerged from Africa in late. 28, it was estimated that the depression intensified into a tropical storm ... day, satellite imagery observed a well-developed tropical cyclone in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean ...
Weather Modification - Storm Prevention
... Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft into storms and seeding the eyewall with silver iodide ... Another new anti-hurricane technology is a method for the reduction of tropical cyclones’ destructive force - pumping sea water into and diffusing it ...
... Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft into storms and seeding the eyewall with silver iodide ... Another new anti-hurricane technology is a method for the reduction of tropical cyclones’ destructive force - pumping sea water into and diffusing it ...
2003–04 South-West Indian Ocean Cyclone Season
... The 2003-04 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was an annual event of tropical cyclone formation ... dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the basin, which is west of 90°E and south of the Equator ... Tropical cyclones in this basin are monitored by the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre in Réunion ...
... The 2003-04 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was an annual event of tropical cyclone formation ... dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the basin, which is west of 90°E and south of the Equator ... Tropical cyclones in this basin are monitored by the Regional Specialised Meteorological Centre in Réunion ...
1961 Atlantic Hurricane Season - Storms - Tropical Storm Gerda
... Tropical storm (SSHS) Duration October 16 – October 20 Peak intensity 70 mph (110 km/h), 982 mbar (hPa) The precursor to Tropical Storm Gerda was a tropical wave that ... The tropical depression moved slowly northward, moving over Jamaica that night and Cuba the next day ... somewhat, allowing the depression to become a tropical storm on October 19 ...
... Tropical storm (SSHS) Duration October 16 – October 20 Peak intensity 70 mph (110 km/h), 982 mbar (hPa) The precursor to Tropical Storm Gerda was a tropical wave that ... The tropical depression moved slowly northward, moving over Jamaica that night and Cuba the next day ... somewhat, allowing the depression to become a tropical storm on October 19 ...
1993 Atlantic Hurricane Season - Storms - Tropical Storm Dennis
... Tropical storm (SSHS) Duration August 23 – August 28 Peak intensity 50 mph (85 km/h), 1000 mbar (hPa) A tropical wave and its associated low pressure area exited the west coast of Africa on ... At 1200 UTC on August 23, Tropical Depression Five developed while located about 415 miles (668 km) west-southwest of Brava, Cape Verde ...
... Tropical storm (SSHS) Duration August 23 – August 28 Peak intensity 50 mph (85 km/h), 1000 mbar (hPa) A tropical wave and its associated low pressure area exited the west coast of Africa on ... At 1200 UTC on August 23, Tropical Depression Five developed while located about 415 miles (668 km) west-southwest of Brava, Cape Verde ...
More definitions of "tropical":
- (adj): Of or relating to the tropics, or either tropic.
Example: "Tropical year"
- (adj): Characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense.
- (adj): Of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics.
Example: "Tropical weather"
Synonyms: tropic
Famous quotes containing the word tropical:
“We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
“Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes
When a vessel is, so to speak, “snarked.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Oh, you’ll love the sea. There’s something about it. The hot red dawn, the towering sails, the wake on a tropical night. Oh, you’ll love it all. It’s a glorious kind of world. I couldn’t live without it.”
—Charles Larkworthy. Denison Clift. Capt. Benjamin Briggs (Arthur Margetson)