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HURRICANE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("hurricane" is a kind of...):
cyclone (a violent rotating windstorm)
Holonyms ("hurricane" is a part of...):
Beaufort scale; wind scale (an international scale of wind force from 0 (calm air) to 12 (hurricane))
Context examples:
No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A disaster can be a natural disaster, like a hurricane, tornado, flood or earthquake.
(Disaster Preparation and Recovery, Federal Emergency Management Agency)
Then the youth galloped thither with his iron soldiers, broke like a hurricane over the enemy, and beat down all who opposed him.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
With its swirl of reddish hues, it’s 2-3 times as wide as Earth and is seen by many as a “perpetual hurricane,” with winds peaking at about 400 miles an hour.
(Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Likely a Massive Heat Source, NASA)
It was Buck, a live hurricane of fury, hurling himself upon them in a frenzy to destroy.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
For three hurricane seasons in a row, storms with record-breaking rainfall have caused catastrophic flooding in the southern United States: Harvey in 2017, Florence in 2018 and Imelda in 2019.
(Why are big storms bringing so much more rain?, National Science Foundation)
Some of the most vulnerable cities include Rio de Janeiro, Santos (São Paulo), Fortaleza (Ceará), Recife (Pernambuco), Salvador (Bahia) and, in Brazil's South region, the Vale do Itajaí region of Santa Catarina, which in addition to the rising sea level, is at risk of becoming a hurricane route.
(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)
During 2017’s Hurricane Irma, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that a simultaneous space weather event brought down radio communications used by first responders, aviation and maritime channels for eight hours on the day the hurricane made landfall.
(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)
Evidence increasingly suggests that this oceanic current system is slowing down, and some scientists fear it could have major effects, such as causing temperatures to dive in Europe and warming the waters off the eastern coast of the USA, potentially harming fisheries and exacerbating hurricanes.
(A new study is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts., University of Cambridge)
Hurricanes produce high winds, heavy rains and thunderstorms.
(Hurricanes, Federal Emergency Management Agency)
