A cyclone can also merge with another area of low pressure, becoming a larger area of low pressure.

They also warn about the gale force wind that accompanies the tropical cyclone.

Save the rainforest!

A tropical depression is aggravating the situation.

That island has a tropical climate.

This island is a tropical paradise.

Willie Smits restores a rainforest

We must protect the rainforest.

This is a tropical storm. It'll be over soon.

An exception to this is the northern tropical regions.

Under the Köppen climate classification, Dhaka has a tropical savanna climate.

A broad low pressure system about 350 miles (560 km) south of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands has a 60 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Tuesday.

He said, What can I do to save the rainforests?

About 1,100 Twitter updates mentioned the cyclone in the past 48 hours.

As a storm approaches land, it can be observed by land based Doppler weather radar.

In its lowermost section the Amazon's depth averages , in some places as much as .

After the heavy casualties in 1998, the Odisha government treats it as a disaster on the scale of cyclone or flood.

Tropical Storm Chantal has caused the temporary closure of some regional airports and the cancellation of flights.

Cyclone Giovanna made landfall in Madagascar on February 13, 2012, at 20h00 local time.

The country is located between 200 30 and 260 45 north latitude and the climate is tropical.

1882 More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed when a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour.

Cyclone Haruna hit the island of Madagascar and its landfall has created the humid conditions that favors the massive proliferation of locusts.

Whether it s a massive cyclone or horrible floods we have seen people going above and beyond to help those around them.

And it's the best thing and the most nutritious and refreshing thing you can drink on a hot day in the tropics, so I said sure.

Durian, the spiky looking tropical fruit that originates from Southeast Asia, isn't welcome in certain public places.

When you are poor, you are more likely to slash and burn rain forest or fish atop coral reefs with dynamite.

But nothing yet has impacted the capital the way the hurricanes of the 1920s and the 1800s did.

While the world watches, Burma's generals are consolidating their tyrannical rule as hundreds of thousands of the cyclone s survivors remain in desperate need of shelter, clean drinking water and medical care.

Earth's axis of rotation is tilted 23.4 away from the perpendicular of its orbital plane, producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface with a period of one tropical year (365.24 solar days).

Climate Straddling the Tropic of Cancer, Bangladeshi climate is tropical with a mild winter from October to March, and a hot, humid summer from March to June.

Thus, the 50 or so arcseconds that the Sun does not have to move to complete the tropical year saves varying amounts of time depending on the position in the orbit.

By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.

Length of tropical year An oversimplified definition of the tropical year would be the time required for the Sun, beginning at a chosen ecliptic longitude, to make one complete cycle of the seasons and return to the same ecliptic longitude.

In a recent visit to this tropical archipelago of 1.3 million people, I had a chance to see some of the leaps Mauritius has taken accomplishments that can seem bewildering in light of the debate in the US and elsewhere.

The unit was redefined in terms of the tropical year at 1900.0 instead of the sidereal year and the standard second was defined first as 1 31556925.975 of the tropical year at 1900.0, and then as the slightly modified fraction 1 31556925.9747 instead, finally being redefined in 1967 8 in terms of the cesium atomic clock standard (see below).