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    The Central American gyre (CAG) is a broad and seasonal area of low pressure that occurs over the eastern Pacific Ocean and western Caribbean Sea. It...
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    North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre Indian Ocean gyre North Pacific gyre South Pacific gyre South Atlantic         gyre In oceanography...
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    Atlantic Gyre of the Atlantic Ocean is one of five great oceanic gyres. It is a circular ocean current, with offshoot eddies and sub-gyres, across the...
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    Pacific Gyre (NPG) or North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG), located in the northern Pacific Ocean, is one of the five major oceanic gyres. This gyre covers...
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    formed on November 4, 2024 from an area of low-pressure spawned by a Central American gyre. Steady organization occurred throughout the next two days, with...
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    2024 Atlantic hurricane season (category Use American English from December 2023)
    formed in the southwestern Caribbean Sea east of Central America associated with the Central American Gyre. The disturbance moved slowly northwestward over...
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  • Cyclone Tornado Tropical cyclone Vortex Whirlpool or maelstrom Central American gyre, a broad and seasonal area of low pressure that occurs over the...
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    Hurricane Helene (category Use American English from October 2024)
    development of a tropical cyclone resulted from the interaction of the Central American gyre—a broad monsoon low pressure system—and the Madden–Julian Oscillation...
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    Yucatán Peninsula, the low was spawned from a disturbance within the Central American Gyre. Though its thunderstorm activity was scattered, the invest began...
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    (Tropical Storm Alberto forms.) – Tropical Storm Alberto forms from a Central American gyre about 235 mi (380 km) east of Tampico, Mexico. June 20 00:00 UTC...
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    Stan was associated with a Central American gyre, which was a much larger circulation covering eastern Mexico and Central America. After moving ashore the...
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    North Pacific Garbage Patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W...
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    caused the pre-existing disturbance that was being enhanced by a Central American Gyre (CAG) to become more organized. By May 30, the system attained a...
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    2017 Atlantic hurricane season (category 2017 in North America)
    deadliest in Puerto Rico since the 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane. A Central American gyre and a tropical wave interacted, spawning a tropical depression about...
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    remnants of Hurricane Agatha in the Pacific basin interacted with a Central American Gyre. Consequently, a gradual increase in deep convection occurred over...
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    Hurricane Nate (category Use American English from October 2024)
    Continued flow between the ridge over the western Atlantic and the Central American gyre propelled Nate into the Yucatán Channel and then the Gulf of Mexico...
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    into a Central American gyre—a broad monsoonal circulation. A tropical wave crossed the Caribbean and eventually reached Central America on October 15;...
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    Tropical Storm Philippe (2017) (category 2017 in Central America)
    wave which exited the coast of West Africa on October 16, and the Central American Gyre on October 24. This formed a broad area of low pressure the next...
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    The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG) is the largest contiguous ecosystem on earth. In oceanography, a subtropical gyre is a ring-like system of ocean...
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    reanalysis concluded that the remnants of Hattie instead became a Central American gyre. Hattie first affected regions in the southwestern Caribbean, producing...
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    remained. The Central American Gyre that later spawned Tropical Storms Claudette and Dolores caused torrential rainfall in parts of Central America and Mexico...
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  • an extended period of heavy rain associated with a long-lived Central American gyre led to disaster. Particularly hard-hit were Honduras and Nicaragua...
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    dissipated on June 23 to the southeast of Nova Scotia. The precursor Central American gyre, which also contributed to the development of Tropical Storm Dolores...
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    North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre Indian Ocean gyre North Pacific gyre South Pacific gyre South Atlantic         gyre The clockwise...
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    their banks. A Central American Gyre — the same one that spawned Tropical Storm Philippe in the Atlantic basin — formed over Central America on October 24...
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    North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre Indian Ocean gyre North Pacific gyre South Pacific gyre South Atlantic         gyre The Indian...
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    2019 Atlantic hurricane season (category Use American English from September 2019)
    convection occurred as the wave crossed Central America, partially due to interaction with the Central American gyre. The wave split, with the southern portion...
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    also increases, bringing humidity to central and southeast Brazil. As the SAMS progresses a continental-scale gyre transports moisture westward from the...
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    referred as a Central American gyre; as it lacked a well-defined center, the system was removed as a tropical cyclone in 2019. The gyre intensified before...
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    southern part of the North Pacific Subpolar Gyre and the northern part of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. The North Pacific Current is formed by the...
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