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    Climate change affects tropical cyclones in a variety of ways: an intensification of rainfall and wind speed, an increase in the frequency of very intense...
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    surges (due to wind and severe pressure changes), and the potential of spawning tornadoes. Climate change affects tropical cyclones in several ways. Scientists...
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    effects of tropical cyclones include heavy rain, strong wind, large storm surges near landfall, and tornadoes. The destruction from a tropical cyclone, such...
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    percentage (+13%) of tropical cyclones are expected to reach Category 4 and 5 strength. A 2019 study indicates that climate change has been driving the...
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    more general term "cyclone" is used in the rest of the ocean basins, namely the South Pacific and Indian Ocean. Tropical cyclones can be categorized by...
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    Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate. Climate change...
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    equator, tropical cyclones can form throughout the year on either side of the Indian subcontinent, although most frequently between April and June, and between...
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    In 2024, tropical cyclones have been forming in seven major bodies of water, commonly known as tropical cyclone basins. Tropical cyclones are named by...
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    tropical cyclones, an assertion proved false in 2004 when Cyclone Catarina struck southeastern Brazil. Occasionally, there are tropical-like cyclones...
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    annular tropical cyclones behave similarly to asymmetric storms. Most research related to annular tropical cyclones is limited to satellite imagery and aircraft...
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    subtropical cyclones began receiving names from the official tropical cyclone lists in the north Atlantic basin. Subtropical cyclones are also recognized...
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    The climate of Africa is a range of climates such as the equatorial climate, the tropical wet and dry climate, the tropical monsoon climate, the semi-arid...
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    and low vertical wind shear. Tropical cyclones tend to develop during the summer, but have been noted in nearly every month in most basins. Climate cycles...
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    Rapid intensification (category Tropical cyclone meteorology)
    Tsz-cheung; Sobel, Adam; Sugi, Masato (January 2016). "Tropical cyclones and climate change". WIREs Climate Change. 7 (1): 65–89. Bibcode:2016WIRCC...7...65W. doi:10...
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    Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones, often referred to as Mediterranean cyclones or Mediterranean hurricanes, and shortened as medicanes, are meteorological...
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  • officially three areas where tropical cyclones develop on a regular basis, these areas are the South-West Indian Ocean between Africa and 90°E, the Australian...
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    accounting for almost one third of the world's tropical cyclones. The term hurricane refers to a tropical cyclone (again with sustained winds of at least 119 km/h...
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    Atlantic tropical cyclones are unusual weather events that occur in the Southern Hemisphere. Strong wind shear, which disrupts the formation of cyclones, as...
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    across the basin for most of July after Beryl dissipated, with no new tropical cyclones forming due to the presence of the Saharan air layer (SAL) across...
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    latitudes of the Earth. In contrast with tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones produce rapid changes in temperature and dew point along broad lines, called...
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    landfalling tropical cyclones. The low-lying and populated country has a history of the deadliest tropical cyclones. On November 12, 1970, a cyclone struck...
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    A tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There...
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    subtropical cyclones or extratropical cyclones that originate from the east. In eastern Australia, a cut-off low can bring accumulating and widespread...
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    worldwide tropical cyclone records set by different storms and seasons. List of weather records Tornado records List of the most intense tropical cyclones List...
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  • encompassing the tropical cyclone season, which runs from 1 November and lasts until 30 April each season. Within the basin, most tropical cyclones have their...
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    vortices and extratropical cyclones of the largest scale (the synoptic scale). Warm-core cyclones such as tropical cyclones and subtropical cyclones also...
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    Meteorological Centre Outline of tropical cyclones Chris Landsea. "Climate Variability table — Tropical Cyclones". Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory...
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    typically spawns tropical cyclones in the southeastern portion of the body of water, offshore of western India. About 48.5% of cyclones dissipate without...
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    and a poleward extension of where the cyclones reach maximum intensity are among the consequences of human-induced climate change. Tropical cyclones use...
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    The practice of using names to identify tropical cyclones goes back several centuries, with storms named after places, saints or things they hit before...
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