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During the early and latter parts of the season, when tropical formation occurs, it often does so closer to land or as an extra-tropical non-tropical system changes forms and becomes tropical in nature.
Paul Yeager: Entire Hurricane Season in Less Than 5 Minutes! Paul Yeager 2011
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During the early and latter parts of the season, when tropical formation occurs, it often does so closer to land or as an extra-tropical non-tropical system changes forms and becomes tropical in nature.
Paul Yeager: Entire Hurricane Season in Less Than 5 Minutes! Paul Yeager 2011
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During the early and latter parts of the season, when tropical formation occurs, it often does so closer to land or as an extra-tropical non-tropical system changes forms and becomes tropical in nature.
Paul Yeager: Entire Hurricane Season in Less Than 5 Minutes! Paul Yeager 2011
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Many individual studies of various regions show that extra-tropical cyclone activity seems to have generally increased over the last half of the 20th century in the northern hemisphere, but decreased in the southern hemisphere.
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We have a team of twenty-five PhD scientists in London building mathematical models that predict the distributions of possible damage due to tropical storms, extra-tropical storms, thunderstorms, storm-surges and fluvial floods.
Archive 2008-10-01 EliRabett 2008
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Technically, the big blow was what the National Weather Service calls "an extra-tropical cyclone" - better known as a nor'easter to those who have ever battened down underneath one.
Like A Hurricane 2008
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Based on limited data, the observed variations in the intensity and frequency of tropical and extra-tropical cyclones and severe local storms show no clear trends in the last half of the 20th century, although multi-decadal fluctuations are sometimes apparent.
Think Progress » Attacking Global Warming Science: Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way 2006
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We have a number of open positions in this group, to work in areas related to tropical storms, extra-tropical storms and storm-surge.
Archive 2008-10-01 EliRabett 2008
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Noon weather projects that Noel, or the "extra-tropical" incarnation of same, may track further west and grow more than first thought.
Red sky at morning jhetley 2007
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It does not show the Medieval Warm Period as comparable to temperatures within the last 10 years for the extra-tropical NH land temperature.
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