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What is a tropical cyclone?

What is a tropical cyclone? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (in the broad sense) a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a circular/spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain, ranging in increasing strength from tropical depressions and tropical storm to hurricanes.
  2. (in the narrow sense) typhoon, hurricane
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Very often the rainfall with post-tropical systems is enhanced by a frontal system already in the vicinity when the tropical cyclone arrives.
Large vertical wind shear disrupts a growing disturbance and can prevent a tropical cyclone from forming.
Elsewhere this is called a tropical cyclone, severe tropical cyclone, or severe cyclonic storm.
The main objective of the Panel is to promote measures to improve tropical cyclone warning systems in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.
This is when the interesting physics of tropical cyclone formation really begins.
When the motion of a tropical cyclone changes from westward to eastward, the tropical cyclone is said to recurve.

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