Rainbands are concentric, curved bands of showers and thunderstorms that, together with the eyewall and the eye, constitute a hurricane or tropical storm.Rainbands may produce
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tropical cyclone — a cyclone that originates over a tropical ocean area and can develop into the destructive storm known in the U.S. as a hurricane, in the western Pacific region as a typhoon, and elsewhere by other names. Cf. extratropical cyclone, hurricane (def … Universalium
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List of Florida hurricanes (1950–1974) — The list of Florida hurricanes from 1950 to 1974 encompasses 84 Atlantic tropical or subtropical cyclones that affected the U.S. state of Florida. Collectively, tropical cyclones in Florida during the time period resulted in about $6.2 billion… … Wikipedia
