extratropical

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• Vigorous extratropical cyclones follow a strengthened subtropical jet stream into Southern California during some El Niño years.

  Academic text (1994)

• When the system becomes extratropical, it allows for temperature advection, essentially the formation of warm and cold fronts.

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• In contrast, an extratropical low is typically positioned at or near the intersection of a cold front and warm front.

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• The storms appear to have been intense extratropical cyclones.

  Academic text (1994)

• They were most likely intense extratropical cyclones that passed through southern or central California.

  Academic text (1994)

• It's also possible for an extratropical cyclone to develop what's known as a warm seclusion.

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• In an average year, one or more hurricanes will evolve into extratropical storms in a fairly straightforward manner as they move into the North Atlantic.

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• Meteorologists called this storm extratropical because it did not originate in the tropics, as do most hurricanes.

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• Hurricane Sandy’s transition into an extratropical cyclone is the other piece of the puzzle as to why it was so massive.

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• The veering wind shift and the winter occurrence of the southeasters indicate that the storms were largely extratropical cyclones that approached the coast of Southern California from the northwest.

  Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

N

nontropical

vsextratropical

1 4.1

Not in the warm area near the equator

describes weather phenomena that occur outside tropical regions often in mid latitude areas

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology