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cyclone) Satellites provide invaluable information about the cloud and wind patterns of entire weather systems. This satellite picture, taken in 1969, shows a cyclonic storm, or hurricane, off Hawaii. Tropical cyclones begin in the hot, moist air over tropical oceans. As an area of very low pressure develops, air is sucked in, creating a violent storm of spiralling winds. Alternative name for a depression, an area of low atmospheric pressure with winds blowing in an anticlockwise direction in the northern hemisphere and in a clockwise direction in the southern hemisphere. A severe cyclone that forms in the tropics is called a tropical cyclone or hurricane. |
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| There was no garret at all, and no cellar--except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. "I never befo' seen such a cyclone as dat," he exclaimed as soon as he had recovered his breath. First a cyclone carried my house over, and some Silver Shoes brought me back again--in half a second. |
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