adjectiveˌɛkstrəˈtrɒpɪk(ə)lˌekstrəˈträpikəl
Meteorology Situated or occurring outside the tropics.
Example sentencesExamples
- The strong winds that hit the Pacific Coast are from extratropical storms, not hurricanes, which are tropical cyclones.
- Data collection was limited to extratropical regions to avoid the poor preservation and minimal sampling associated with tropical environments during this time.
- Elsewhere in the southern states, flooding is mostly a winter-spring phenomenon, associated with unusually frequent or active extratropical depressions and fronts.
- Winter storms are extratropical storms and all are a mixture of warm and cold air.
- Storms that form elsewhere are extratropical cyclones.
adjectiveˌekstrəˈträpikəl
Meteorology Situated, existing, or occurring outside the tropics.
Example sentencesExamples
- Data collection was limited to extratropical regions to avoid the poor preservation and minimal sampling associated with tropical environments during this time.
- The strong winds that hit the Pacific Coast are from extratropical storms, not hurricanes, which are tropical cyclones.
- Winter storms are extratropical storms and all are a mixture of warm and cold air.
- Elsewhere in the southern states, flooding is mostly a winter-spring phenomenon, associated with unusually frequent or active extratropical depressions and fronts.
- Storms that form elsewhere are extratropical cyclones.