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Hurricane Charley (other)
The name Charley or Charlie has been used for eight tropical cyclones and one subtropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean, and for one tropical cyclone in the Australian region of the South Pacific Ocean. In the Atlantic: * Hurricane Charlie (1950), Category 2 hurricane that did not affect land * Hurricane Charlie (1951), Category 4 hurricane that struck Jamaica, the Yucatán Peninsula, and northeastern Mexico. * Hurricane Charlie (1952), struck the Dominican Republic as a tropical storm before strengthening to a Category 3 hurricane and moving out to sea * Subtropical Storm Charlie (1972), remained over the open ocean * Hurricane Charley (1980), Category 1 hurricane that looped across the open ocean * Hurricane Charley (1986), Category 1 hurricane that made landfall along the North Carolina coast, then moved out over the ocean, going on to hit Ireland and Great Britain as a strong extratropical storm * Hurricane Charley (1992), Category 2 hurricane, aff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Cyclone
A 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. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by different names, including hurricane (), typhoon (), tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, or simply cyclone. A hurricane is a strong tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean, and a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. In the Indian Ocean, South Pacific, or (rarely) South Atlantic, comparable storms are referred to simply as "tropical cyclones", and such storms in the Indian Ocean can also be called "severe cyclonic storms". "Tropical" refers to the geographical origin of these systems, which form almost exclusively over tropical seas. "Cyclone" refers to their winds moving in a circle, whirling round ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
