(n.) A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.
Example Sentences:
(1) Canterbury and Christchurch in the South Island were expected to bear the brunt of ex-cyclone Debbie, with rain expected to ease in the North Island later on Thursday.
(2) Tun Lwin, the retired director general of Myanmar's meteorology department told the Associated Press: "We are out of danger and the impact of the cyclone is almost over.
(3) On the issue of whether climate change is influencing tropical cyclones, the group said: "No firm conclusion can be made at this point".
(4) Those that do exist bear Saudi Arabia's logo, but they are torn and thin – leftovers from a huge aid donation during cyclone Nargis.
(5) Although the scientists said they were still unsure whether a warming climate would result in an increase in the frequency of hurricanes and other tropical cyclones, there was a stark warning for the northern hemisphere, and areas of Europe and North America where currently hurricanes hardly ever happen.
(6) The Chatham Islands were also likely to be exposed In Fiji the education minister ordered schools to close although it was not thought the cyclone would heavily affect his country.
(7) Cyclones will wrack the coast more frequently, and with more intensity.
(8) Pentecost largely escaped the severe damage inflicted on much of the archipelago by the cyclone, he said.
(9) According to the Climate Council , heatwaves have killed more Australians than any other natural hazards and have caused more deaths since 1890 than bushfires, cyclones, earthquakes, floods and severe storms combined.
(10) Vanuatu disaster: follow the Guardian's reporter on the ground in the wake of cyclone Pam Read more Little is still known of conditions on the ground in outlying islands after Pam wiped out the archipelago’s wider telecommunications network.
(11) A tiny snapshot of recent results from NCRIS programs includes a nano-patch to deliver vaccines without the need for refrigeration, making an obvious life-saving difference for remote Australians and the health of our region; use of marine models and data to search for Malaysian Airlines flight MH370; and the weather-prediction technology that picked up the recent Northern Territory and Queensland cyclones.
(12) Measured sampler penetration curves are presented for British personal cyclone samplers and the MRE 113A static horizontal elutriator in calm air.
(13) "We won't just be looking at the increase in shipping, but also issues such as how climate change and the recent cyclone and extreme weather has affected the reef," she said.
(14) We could have done much more to work with Vanuatu long before the cyclone struck in order to reduce the disaster potential.
(15) Sharknado, a satirical disaster film featuring man-eating sharks let loose on Los Angeles by a freak cyclone, premiered on SyFy in 2013 and became a cult hit, gaining some traction later as a theatrical release.
(16) A cold front is expected to move through the area on Tuesday, bringing rain, more low cloud and less visibility, although a tropical cyclone is thought to be too far north to affect the area.
(17) In the morning Mael told her son – still oblivious to the cyclone– not to open his eyes until they arrived at her parents’ house.
(18) His researchers have recorded sea levels in the Bay of Bengal rising far faster than the global average, and more cyclones hammering the coast.
(19) Lizard Island has just rebuilt their resort after the cyclone.
(20) In spite of early detection of atmospheric turbulence and the history of severe cyclones in the area, an estimated 11,000 people lost their lives.
Monsoon
Definition:
(n.) A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the upside, this year's monsoon will lead to bumper agricultural production, and the cheaper rupee also comes with a thick silver lining.
(2) On the weather map rain hammers down like a monsoon.
(3) The 1st breeding phase coincides with the South-West monsoons and the 2nd with the convectional rains in the month of March.
(4) Digoniostoma pulchella, collected from paddy fields at Chelembra, Malappuram district of Kerala, during the monsoon months.
(5) La Niña produces monsoon rains over the western Pacific and south-east Asia.
(6) Last year, more than 6,000 people were killed as floods and landslides swept through Uttarakhand during the monsoon season.
(7) There is an indication that the winter season is most conducive for the spread of the disease (51.0%), followed by post-monsoon (41.3%), summer (23.1%) and rainy season (11.1%).
(8) Malaysia says it will turn away migrants stranded at sea unless boats are sinking Read more Each year for the past three years, the post-monsoon spike in the number of people seeking to migrate irregularly by sea across the region has been higher and come earlier in the year.
(9) The streets used to be lined with covered colonnades, providing shade from the sun and protection from monsoon rains, but they, too, were torn down.
(10) Chandigarh during the pre-monsoon season (February to May 1987) while 1809 such samples were collected during the post-monsoon season (October 1987-January 1988).
(11) We need to [deliver relief] urgently, so that people have roofs over their heads and their other urgent needs are addressed before the monsoon season starts,” he said.
(12) More pigs seroconverted in monsoon and transition seasons than in dry seasons.
(13) The prevalence and level of antibody decreased during the non-transmission wet season, and increased over a 1-2-month transition period between the end of monsoon rains and the onset of dry conditions, an interval of maximum vector activity.
(14) The opening salvo - a huge East coast storm surge - was the most severe since at least 1953; the Christmas deluge sank Surrey and the Levels; the January monsoon was the greatest since at least 1766 ; ferocious, incessant winds topping 100mph are set to blow away decades-old records.
(15) Prices for staples such as corn and wheat have risen nearly 50% on international markets since June, triggered by severe droughts in the US and Russia, and weak monsoon rains in Asia.
(16) They reached a zenith during the Vietnam war when the US government allegedly conducted their highly classified Operation Popeye, an attempt to extend the monsoon season by cloud seeding in the hope of flushing out the Viet Cong.
(17) This transition could be triggered either by accretions of pollution or by changes in the monsoons, a predicted effect of global warming.
(18) Local people say they can see evidence of climate change everywhere: trees growing higher up mountain slopes, houseflies buzzing at 5,000m, monsoon rains arriving at inconvenient times.
(19) And he doesn’t add that the monsoon rains will arrive in a month.
(20) In the monsoon the average amount of DM fed to a mature animal of 210 kg was 7.1 kg d-1, consisting of about equal amounts of straw, weeds and leaves.