How to Use tropical cyclone in a Sentence

tropical cyclone

noun

• There’s an irony, of sorts, in how a tropical cyclone tracks across the ocean.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2017
• Kathleen was was the first tropical cyclone to hit the San Diego area since 1939.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• In conditions that won't form a tropical cyclone, this is the end of the line.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• And there’s a lot more of that stuff up there during a tropical cyclone.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2024
• The Gulf Coast faces a 30% threat of a tropical cyclone over the next few days, as low pressure continues to form.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 12 July 2022
• Of all mammals exposed to droughts and tropical cyclones, primates have faced the bulk of them.
  — Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 17 June 2019
• In fact, 97% of all tropical cyclones in the Atlantic form during the season.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• The forecast is for 4-6-foot tropical cyclone surf on Sunday, the first day of the event, with larger waves on Monday.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 July 2021
• This study is not the first to find that climate change is causing tropical cyclones to have more rainfall.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2019
• The system is being given a 30% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone over the next two days and a 50% chance over the next five days.
  — Doug Phillips, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• Five tropical cyclones formed in the Gulf of Mexico this year.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 31 Dec. 2019
• Ordinarily the strongest winds in a tropical cyclone occur to the right of the center, in this case to the east.
  — Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2021
• That would break the record for rainfall from a tropical cyclone in the United States, which was set in 1978 by tropical storm Amelia.
  — Nick Oxford, National Geographic, 27 Aug. 2017
• Shaheen was the first tropical cyclone to make landfall along Oman’s northern coast since 1890 and only the third on record.
  — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2021
• On the heels of Typhoon In-fa is the potential for a new tropical cyclone to form in the western Pacific Ocean.
  — Jackson Dill, CNN, 22 July 2021
• There are only around 1-2 tropical cyclones per year in the Arabian Sea, but storms this strength are very rare.
  — Jack Guy, Brandon Miller and Omar Khan, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
• So far this year, seven tropical cyclones have formed, and all have become named storms.
  — Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
• On Sunday, the tropical wave has moved off of the African west coast and has a 40% chance of tropical cyclone development in the next 5 days.
  — Elainie Barraza, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2022
• The first tropical cyclone to make landfall on the west coast of Florida in 2020 will be Elsa in July.
  — NBC News, 6 July 2021
• Most of Baltimore’s wettest months on record are linked to tropical cyclones.
  — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• By early afternoon, Imelda bad become the fifth-wettest tropical cyclone on record in the U.S., and dumped 43.5 inches of rain in the span of hours.
  — Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle, 16 Dec. 2019
• Experts predict at least one more tropical cyclone could form in the Atlantic basin this year.
  — Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2022
• The last tropical cyclone to make landfall on the west coast of Florida in 2020 was Eta last November.
  — NBC News, 6 July 2021
• In the past three years, the US has seen at least one tropical cyclone make landfall in October and November.
  — Judson Jones, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020
• Four tropical cyclones are swirling in the Pacific Ocean this week, at least one of which is a significant threat to land.
  — Angela Fritz, The Seattle Times, 7 Aug. 2018
• Laura, now a post-tropical cyclone, is moving east towards the Mid-Atlantic states with winds of about 25 mph.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020
• In Oman, a rare tropical cyclone dumped years' worth of rainfall, bringing deadly floods to the desert landscape that rarely sees much rain in an entire year.
  — Pedram Javaheri, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
• About 90% of tropical cyclone deaths in the United States are from water, not wind, Brennan noted.
  — Max Chesnes, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• That means there are plenty of past examples of tropical cyclones hitting amid the backdrop of a campaign.
  — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2024
• This includes predicting extreme weather events, the tracks of tropical cyclones and wind power output.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 4 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025