Tropical Cyclone
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: A warm-core cyclone that forms over warm tropical oceans and is characterized by low pressure at the center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and heavy rain.
What is the Tropical Cyclone?
Tropical cyclones are the most powerful weather events on Earth. This forms over warm tropical oceans. It is characterized by rapidly rotating storms with strong winds and heavy rains. Also, a low-pressure center, a closed atmospheric circulation, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms are included. It can be hurricanes or typhoons, depending on their occurrence area.
Extratropical Cyclone
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: A cyclone that forms outside the tropics, usually between 30° and 60° latitude, involving a frontal system that is typically associated with cold air meeting warm air.
What is the Extratropical Cyclone?
Extratropical cyclones are mid-latitude cyclones. It is well known for the mid-latitude or baroclinic storm. This structure gets energy from the horizontal temperature. This forms low-pressure systems that are related to cold fronts, warm fronts, and occluded. Contrasting air masses drive these forms outside of the tropics and are a prevalent cause of daily weather changes in many regions.
Subtropical Cyclone
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: A hybrid cyclone that shares features of both tropical and extratropical cyclones, typically having a broad zone of maximum winds that are not near the center and lacking a well-defined eye.
What is the Subtropical Cyclone?
Subtropical cyclones share features of both tropical and extratropical cyclones. They have a broader wind field than tropical cyclones. It is also a low-pressure system same as extratropical cyclones so it can become a tropical cyclone. This structure generally has a cold core in the upper troposphere.
Polar Cyclone
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: A low-pressure weather system that forms in polar regions, characterized by cold core temperatures and minimal temperature contrasts, primarily driven by the polar environment.
What is the Polar Cyclone?
Polar cyclones(Arctic cyclones) occur in the polar and subpolar regions of the globe. This forms with low pressure which can be equally intense as tropical cyclones. Therefore, it causes dramatic environmental and socioeconomic impacts.
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Medicanes
: Rare tropical-like cyclones that form in the Mediterranean Sea, exhibiting similar characteristics to tropical cyclones, including a warm core and an eye-like structure.
What is the Medicanes?
Medicanes are rare weather phenomena that occur in the Mediterranean Sea. They resemble tropical cyclones and bring similar impacts but are unique to the Mediterranean region. It generally forms once or twice per year and it tends to form in the fall when the sea becomes warmer