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extratropical cyclone

Any cyclonic-scale storm that is not a tropical cyclone, usually referring only to the migratory frontal cyclones of middle and high latitudes. Also called extratropical low, or in this course, just Low.

For a comparison of tropical and extratropical cyclones, see G189.


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