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How to use the word TROPICAL in a Sentence?

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I think it’s important to convey that seasonal forecasts in April always have lots of uncertainty, but this one has even more uncertainty than normal given the potential combination of a robust El Niño but also a very warm tropical Atlantic.

– Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tropical cyclones can often form further west in the basin and remain stronger longer and so potential impacts to Hawaii are increased.

– Jon Gottschalck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic is more sensitive to El Niño influences than in any other ocean basin.

– National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No primate relative has ever been found at such extreme latitudes, they’re more usually found around the equator in tropical regions. I was able to do a phylogenetic analysis, which helped me understand how the fossils from Ellesmere Island are related to species found in midlatitudes of North America.

– Kristen Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's never a good thing to get too much rain all at once, a trait all too common among slow-moving tropical storms, thus, the flash flood potential is summarily also rapidly increasing.

– The WPC

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This remarkably quiet Atlantic tropical cyclone period is likely to end soon.

– Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One reason for( the) reduction in Atlantic seasonal hurricane forecast from Colorado State University is due to development of below-normal sea surface temperatures in subtropical Atlantic, when the subtropical Atlantic is cooler than normal, it can sometimes favor increased shear in the tropical Atlantic.

– Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The models are generally forecasting a more conducive pattern for the Atlantic by the time that we get to the middle of August, air is forecast to more consistently rise over Africa and sink over the tropical Pacific. This pattern should result in reduced vertical wind shear.

– Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Environmental conditions could become conducive for gradual development later this week while the system moves west-northwestward at around 15 mph over the central tropical Atlantic.

– The NHC

Found on CNN
2 years ago

People have been doing different attempts to try to figure out what happened with other datasets, using different methodologies, so I see this paper as another piece of the puzzle, we do not have data in the past, and we can not go back and be there now, so this paper is trying to recreate in a different way that has been done so far what has happened in the relation to number of tropical cyclones.

– Suzana Camargo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The disturbance is expected to become a tropical storm off the East Coast of Florida by( Saturday night), and some strengthening is forecast tonight through Monday as the system moves farther away from Florida over the western Atlantic.

– The NHC

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Tropical cyclones are fairly random animals, and they respond to the random nature of the atmosphere at any given time, but certainly, this steady warming of the ocean that's been happening in the Atlantic because of the combination of greenhouse gas increases and the particulate pollution decreases, that has a profound effect — and the changes to the particulate pollution have a much more dramatic effect on the hurricanes.

– Jim Kossin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Aerosol decrease may lead to good health, but on the other hand, hurricane risk increases. This is where good things accompany bad things. It's kind of like pros and cons. tropical cyclones are fairly random animals, and they respond to the random nature of the atmosphere at any given time.

– Jim Kossin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This study shows very nicely that the impact of aerosols is not isolated to the Atlantic, but involves a global shift in the distribution of tropical cyclones, aerosols are among the most uncertain elements of the climate system, so I think that there should — and I predict there will — be follow-on studies that explore the sensitivity of the results to a range of aerosol-related uncertainties.

– Gabriel Vecchi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was only on very briefly, and I was very young, but I grew up knowing the show had a special connection with people. My dad always said that a tropical island has been the center of many famous stories, including ‘ Swiss Family Robinson. ’.

– Sherwood Schwartz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If we reach or exceed 10.5 feet, it will rank as at least the fourth-highest tide on record and would be the highest non-tropical on record. We've never seen the tide exceed 10.43 feet unless it is related to a tropical system, this would be exceedingly rare if not unprecedented, we're particularly worried about the only road in and out -- that goes from Savannah to Tybee Island -- the road was raised up a few years ago, but at 10.5 feet we're expecting issues there.

– Blair Holloway

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is important to remember that although dairy foods can be rich in saturated fat, they are also rich in many other nutrients and can be a part of a healthy diet. However, other fats like those found in seafood, nuts, and non-tropical vegetable oils can have greater health benefits than dairy fats.

– Kathy Trieu

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The fact we played through a tropical storm last night kind of took away the field for today, in my opinion, the field wasn’t playable.

– Brian Snitker

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Tropical Storm Nicholas is expected to produce storm total rainfall of 8 to 16 inches, with isolated maximum amounts of 20 inches, across portions of the middle and upper Texas coastal areas through the middle of the week.

– Hurricane Center

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Strengthening is still expected until landfall as Tropical Storm Nicholas continues to move over slightly warmer Gulf waters, it is possible that Tropical Storm Nicholas could become a hurricane just before landfall.

– Hurricane Center

Found on CNN
3 years ago

So this thing started in the central tropical South Pacific, get some warming, the pattern continues for 40 years -- then you just have added heat being pumped into it from increasing greenhouse gases, that's what has allowed the Blob to reach such extreme rates of warming... which is why we're seeing a drought that is so unprecedented.

– Kyle Clem

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The funeral services are collapsed. There aren't any coffins, my family was in despair to have a deceased person for 15 hours in their bed in the tropical heat. The funeral home said there were 16 cases like his, people without a place to be buried.

– Magdiel Jorge Castro

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There's evidence that tropical cyclones are more likely to stall.

– Jim Kossin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is with great sadness that we announce that two additional victims of the flooding from Tropical Depression Fred have been located and recovered.

– Haywood County

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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