What does a cyclonic wind look like?

Answer 1

Cyclonic or 'frontal' rain occurs where two air masses meet and form a 'front.' The warmer, moisture laden air rises over the colder air as a 'warm front'. As the air rises it cools, and its relative humidity increases. Clouds form as water vapor condenses, and then fall as rain.

Answer 2

A cyclonic wind typically appears as a rotating column of air, with winds spinning in a counterclockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and a clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere. The winds can vary in intensity and may be accompanied by visible features such as a funnel cloud or a well-defined eye at the center of the cyclone.

Answer 3

At the smallest scale, local winds like land and sea breezes are generated by differences in surface heating over only a few miles. Across areas perhaps several hundred miles in diameter, wind is sometimes seen to blow from high pressure to low pressure regions. Effectively, air is being pushed from one place to another. The differences in pressure are generated by temperatures contrasts caused by the unequal distribution of heat from the Sun. The wind however, does not blow in a straight line from high to low pressure. In fact it follows a much longer path spiraling out from a high pressure centre and spiraling in towards a low pressure centre. This is caused by the Coriolis force which results from the rotation of the Earth. Such wind is sometimes known as cyclonic wind.

Answer 4

A cyclone is a large-scale low pressure system characterized by a cyclonic circulation (counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern) about a definite center where pressure is lowest. Air spirals toward the center of a cyclone, rises, and then diverges at upper levels. Generally bring stormy weather. Cyclones are subdivided into two main types: tropical and extratropical.

A tropical cyclone is a tropical storm system with a cyclonic circulation about a low pressure center powered by organized convection. In a tropical cyclone, rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure centre. Tropical cyclone is a generic term. In the northern hemisphere, where tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, and eastern Pacific Ocean they are called hurricanes and those in the Pacific Ocean west of the 180th meridian are called typhoons. Those in the southern Pacific Ocean and Indian ocean are simply called cyclones.

Tropical cyclones can only form over warm waters in the tropical regions of the oceans where the sea temperatures are 26.5 degrees Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit) or higher. They occur in areas of very low pressure when air that is heated by the sun rises rapidly and becomes saturated with moisture which then condenses into high thunderclouds. As the hot air rises more warm, moist air rushes in to fill the area left vacant by the hot air. The Coriolis effect of the Earth spinning on its axis causes the air to spiral inwards, causing the storm to become organized. The increase in organization causes the tropical low to deepen in intensity and the winds to rotate faster developing into a tropical depression, and eventually a cyclone which is anywhere between hundreds of kilometres to thousands of kilometres wide.

Tropical cyclones are also characterized by strong winds, yet in their centre is a clear, calm region called the 'eye'. When the cyclone continues its course, and the winds return from the other direction, they may seem to be more violent. The winds are not just rotating; there is also the effect of the warmer air continually rising and more air rushing in. That is why the winds are so strong, and seem to move in all directions. The eye of a tropical cyclone is part of the "warm core" that is found in such systems.

The other type of cyclone is an extratropical or mid-latitude cyclone. Like tropical cyclones, these systems have low pressure centers and rotate cyclonically about a center. Unlike tropical cyclones, mid-latitude cyclones often form in cold environments and over land. In fact, they are usually strongest when they occur in fall or winter. In most cases there are no regional terms for mid-latitude cyclones, especially strong ones that travel up the northeastern coast of the United States are called nor'easters.

While tropical cyclones are powered by the moisture from warm ocean water, extratropical cyclones are powered by clashing air masses of different temperatures. The centers of these air masses are usually characterized by high pressure, creating an area of relative low pressure between them, as well as an area where temperature changes drastically, called a front. The low pressure then develops its own circulation owing to the Coriolis effect. As this happens the cyclone focuses temperature contrasts along fronts, and a distinct pattern emerges: Cold air retreats along the east side of the cyclone, forming a warm front, which advances poleward (i.e. north in the northern hemisphere, south in the southern) On the equatorward side of the low cold air advances, forming a cold front. In between these fronts is a roughly triangular area of warmer temperatures called the warm sector. In a mid-latitude cyclone the cold front moves faster than the warm front and eventually catches up with it, lifting the warm sector off the ground, and forming an occluded front. At this stage, called occlusion the system usually reaches peak intensity. After this, however, the temperature contrasts around the cyclone have been stabilized and the system usually dissipates after this point. However, part of the the cold front from the cyclone, which can be thousands of miles long, may trail behind the cyclone, generating an area of low pressure that sets the stage for a new cyclone to develop.

Answer 5

You cannot actually see what cyclonic wind looks like you can only see the results either through a radar image or satelite image of the cloud movement.

They start as a spiral and become more circular as the wind intensity increases

Answer 6

they are big storms in the ocean, somewhat similar to hurricans and typhoons.

Answer 7

A cyclone is where air rotates at high speed around a centre (The Eye of the storm) this causes high winds, a Hurricane is an extreme example of this.

Answer 8

Cyclonic winds are winds that rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

Answer 9

it is when there is too much low pressure. when a mass of cold air,rises, condensation takes place and rain results

Answer 10

a cyclone is another from of a tornado but more in a dangerous way