11 Facts About Tropical cyclone

Tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

Strong rotating winds of a tropical cyclone are a result of the conservation of angular momentum imparted by the Earth's rotation as air flows inwards toward the axis of rotation.

Tropical cyclone is the generic term for a warm-cored, non-frontal synoptic-scale low-pressure system over tropical or subtropical waters around the world.

Tropical cyclone intensity is based on wind speeds and pressure; relationships between winds and pressure are often utilized in determining the intensity of a storm.

The Brown ocean effect can allow a tropical cyclone to maintain or increase its intensity following landfall, in cases where there has been copious rainfall, through the release of latent heat from the saturated soil.

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Rossby waves can aid in the formation of a new tropical cyclone by disseminating the energy of an existing, mature storm.

Should a tropical cyclone make landfall or pass over an island, its circulation could start to break down, especially if it encounters mountainous terrain.

Ten of these warning centres worldwide are designated as either a Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre or a Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre by the World Meteorological Organisation's tropical cyclone programme.

In 1970, a Tropical cyclone struck Bangladesh, then known as East Pakistan, producing a 6.

High-speed computers and sophisticated simulation software allow forecasters to produce computer models that predict tropical cyclone tracks based on the future position and strength of high- and low-pressure systems.

An extratropical cyclone is a storm that derives energy from horizontal temperature differences, which are typical in higher latitudes.