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  2. Extratropical cyclone - Wikipedia

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    Extratropical cyclones spin clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere, just like tropical cyclones. The wind flow around an extratropical cyclone is counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, due to the Coriolis effect (this manner of rotation is generally referred to as cyclonic).

  3. Cyclone - Wikipedia

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    An extratropical cyclone is a synoptic scale low-pressure weather system that does not have tropical characteristics, [33] as it is connected with fronts and horizontal gradients (rather than vertical) in temperature and dew point otherwise known as "baroclinic zones". [34] "Extratropical" is

  4. Synoptic scale meteorology - Wikipedia

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    An extratropical cyclone is a synoptic scale low-pressure weather system that has neither tropical nor polar characteristics, being connected with fronts and horizontal gradients in temperature and dew point otherwise known as "baroclinic zones".

  5. Post-tropical cyclone - Wikipedia

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    Two classes of post-tropical cyclones exist Extratropical cyclone, which is frontal, sometimes still retains winds of hurricane or tropical storm force. [1] Hurricane Paulette (2020) provides a recent example of an extratropical cyclone, [3] in which it no longer has a warm core in higher latitudes when it was over Nova Scotia and all points north in its trajectory.

  6. Westerlies - Wikipedia

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    An extratropical cyclone is a synoptic scale low-pressure weather system that has neither tropical nor polar characteristics, being connected with fronts and horizontal gradients in temperature and dew point otherwise known as "baroclinic zones".

  7. Inflow (meteorology) - Wikipedia

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    A conveyor belt, also referred to as the warm conveyor belt, is a term describing the flow of a stream of warm moist air originating within the warm sector (or generally equatorward) of an extratropical cyclone in advance of the cold front which slopes up above and poleward (north in the Northern Hemisphere and south in the Southern Hemisphere ...

  8. Cold front - Wikipedia

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    A cold front is the leading edge of a cooler mass of air at ground level that replaces a warmer mass of air and lies within a pronounced surface trough of low pressure.It often forms behind an extratropical cyclone (to the west in the Northern Hemisphere, to the east in the Southern), at the leading edge of its cold air advection pattern—known as the cyclone's dry "conveyor belt" flow.

  9. Tropical cyclone intensity scales - Wikipedia

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    Tropical cyclones are defined as being warm cored, non-frontal synoptic cyclones, that develop over tropical or subtropical waters, with organized atmospheric convection and have a definite cyclonic surface wind circulation.