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Tropical Storm Dot
The name Dot was used for fourteen tropical cyclones in Pacific Ocean: two in the central Pacific and twelve in the northwest Pacific. In the central Pacific: *Hurricane Dot (1959) – peaked as Category 4 hurricane prior to making landfall on Kauai, Hawaii. *Hurricane Dot (1970) – formed northwest of Hawaii, peaked as a Category 1 hurricane; did not affect land. In the northwest Pacific: *Typhoon Dot (1955) (T5508) *Super Typhoon Dot (1961) (T6128, 66W) – affected Iwo Jima *Typhoon Dot (1964) (T6424, 36W, Enang) – made landfall twice, affected the Philippines, Hong Kong and eastern China *Tropical Storm Dot (1967) (T6709, 10W) – affected the Ryūkyū Islands *Typhoon Dot (1973) (T7305, 05W) – made landfall just east of Hong Kong on the Chinese mainland *Tropical Storm Dot (1976) (T7615, 15W) – scraped the coast of China near Shanghai before making landfall while dissipating on the Korean Peninsula *Tropical Storm Dot (1979) (T7904, 04W, Karing) – affected mo ... [...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] |
