* 1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola ; the first to be documented by satellites.

The previous record, 13, 200 cubic metres poured in 54 hours despite a severe tropical storm requiring the site to be covered with tarpaulins to allow work to continue, was achieved in 1992 by joint Japanese and South Korean consortiums Hazama Corporation and the Samsung C & T Corporation for the construction of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

* 2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston.

The storm caused $ 5. 5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U. S. history.

* 1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10, 000 people.

The last hurricane was category-one Hurricane Earl in September 2010, and the last tropical storm was Tropical Storm Noel in 2007 ( downgraded from Hurricane Noel by the time the storm reached Nova Scotia ).

It started life tracking across the Atlantic as a tropical depression and tropical storm in the normal direction ( east to west ).

Some meteorological conditions, such as deep depressions that cause tropical cyclones, can generate a storm surge, called a meteotsunami, which can raise tides several metres above normal levels.

* February 2 – A tropical storm forms just north of Cuba moving northeast.

It is the earliest reported landfall from a tropical storm, and the earliest formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin.

* May 25 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10, 000 people.

* August 30 – Hurricane season begins, with a tropical storm northeast of Turks and Caicos.

* October 14 – Fourth tropical storm of the year, formed just north of Panama.

* October 15 – Fifth tropical storm of the year, formed north of the Leeward Islands.

** The sixth tropical storm developed in the Gulf of Mexico.

A storm surge, from either a tropical cyclone or an extratropical cyclone, falls within this category.

Cyclone, tropical cyclone, hurricane, and typhoon are different names for the same phenomenon a cyclonic storm system that forms over the oceans.

In June 2012 one person was killed by a tornado that was spawned by tropical storm Debby

If the shear line becomes active with thunderstorms, it may support formation of a tropical storm or a regeneration of the feature back into a stationary front.

A Cape Verde type Hurricane is formed in the area south of the islands, near Sao Miguel, after a tropical wave on the African continent during the rainy season.

The second letter describes the thermal characteristic of its source region: T for tropical, P for polar, A for Arctic or Antarctic, M for monsoon, E for equatorial, and S for superior air ( dry air formed by significant downward motion in the atmosphere ).

With the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ) swinging northward over West Africa from the Southern Hemisphere in April, heavy showers coming from pre-monsoonal convective clouds mainly in the form of squall lines also known as the north easterlies formed mainly as a result of the interactions of the two dominant airmasses in Nigeria known as the Maritime tropical ( south westerlies ) and the Continental tropical ( north easterlies ), begins in central Nigeria while the Monsoons from the south atlantic ocean arrives in central Nigeria in July bringing with it high humidity, heavy cloud cover and heavy rainfall which can be daily occurrence lasting till September when the monsoons gradually begin retreating southward to the southern part of Nigeria. Rainfall totals in central Nigeria varies from in the lowlands of the river Niger Benue trough to over along the south western escarpment of the Jos Plateau.

When the craters were formed, eucalyptus forests dominated rather than the current wet tropical rain forests.

Most of the rain is associated with monsoonal troughs formed over Southeast Asia, although occasionally tropical

Layers of thick white rock, formed during period of relatively warm seas, alternate with highly fragile layers containing sand and remains of mud, formed during colder periods, and with layers containing various corals, that were formed during warmer, tropical times.

French nationals from the tropical African colonies formed a large part of the forces at the beginning, as were nationals from French Algeria.

The ruins lie among the tropical rainforests of northern Guatemala that formed the cradle of lowland Maya civilization.

The B-52s were formed when vocalist Cindy Wilson, her older brother and guitarist Ricky, organist and vocalist Kate Pierson, original drummer and percussionist Keith Strickland and cowbell player and vocalist Fred Schneider played an impromptu musical jam session after sharing a tropical Flaming Volcano drink at a local Chinese restaurant.

Oxisols of the type called rhodic ferralsols, or Yasothon soils, formed under humid tropical conditions in the early Tertiary.

The ninth named storm, fifth hurricane, and second major hurricane of the season, Isabel formed near the Cape Verde Islands from a tropical wave on September 6 in the tropical Atlantic Ocean.

The northern part of the department is formed by tropical lowlands which cover 21 % of the department's territory.

Such storms are very often formed from the merging of several weaker storms, a " parent storm ", and a polar jet stream mixing with the tropical jet stream.

In Thailand, rhodic ferralsols, called Yasothon soils, are said to have formed under humid tropical conditions in the early Tertiary, on an extensive plain later uplifted to form the Khorat Plateau.

The Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases ( ITD ) was formed in August 1997 and encompasses all of the laboratory-based research in the School as well as that on the clinical and epidemiological aspects of infectious and tropical diseases.

Juan formed southeast of Bermuda on September 24 from a tropical wave that had tracked across the subtropical Atlantic Ocean.

It was a well-above average season in which 21 tropical depressions formed.

Four tropical cyclones also formed in October ; notably, Hurricane Roxanne developed in that month.

A tropical wave formed over Africa in mid August 1995.

* Bar ( tropical cyclone ), a layer of dark cloud near the horizon

Because the length of the lunar month is not an even fraction of the length of the tropical year, a purely lunar calendar quickly drifts against the seasons, which don't vary much near the equator.

The ocean near Cape Verde is an area of tropical cyclone formation ; since these storms have the whole Atlantic over which to develop as they move westward, they are among the most intense hurricanes, and are called Cape Verde-type hurricanes.

It is also visible near the horizon from tropical latitudes of the northern hemisphere for a few hours every night during the northern winter and spring.

Capybaras are semiaquatic mammals found throughout almost all countries of South America ( except Chile ) in densely forested areas near bodies of water, such as lakes, rivers, swamps, ponds and marshes, as well as flooded savannah and along rivers in tropical forest.

In summer and early autumn, typhoons, grown from tropical depressions generated near the equator, attack Japan with furious rainstorms.

In the northern hemisphere, Lammas takes place around August 1 with the Sun near the midpoint of Leo in the tropical zodiac, while in the southern hemisphere Lammas is celebrated around February 1 with the Sun near the midpoint of Aquarius.

If the solar year is defined as a tropical year, then a lunisolar calendar will give an indication of the season ; if it is taken as a sidereal year, then the calendar will predict the constellation near which the full moon may occur.

A tropical forest near Fond St-Denis.

The time needed to lift an air parcel from the tropical tropopause near is about 4 – 5 months ( about per day ).

The region differs from the southern coast by the presence of shrubs, equotorial dry forests, mangrove forests, tropical valleys near rivers such as the Chira and the Tumbes, and is blessed with clear, sunny skies for most of the year.

The climate of Swaziland varies from tropical to near temperate.

Specimens in Louisiana were collected near a tropical fish farm.

Many tropical bamboo species will die at or near freezing temperatures, while some of the hardier or so-called temperate bamboos can survive temperatures as low as.

Vineyard growing among other cultures in the tropical climate | tropical influenced climate near Santana, Madeira.

Despite its location near the equator, Malabo features a tropical wet and dry climate.

Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character ( whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer )— a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.

Lying near the equator, Guyana has a tropical climate, and temperatures do not vary much throughout the year.

Some of the larger tropical species are known to feed on spiders, hovering near the web and plucking the spider from its nest.

A mesoscale convective system's overall cloud and precipitation pattern may be round or linear in shape, and include weather systems such as tropical cyclones, squall lines, lake-effect snow events, polar lows, and Mesoscale Convective Complexes ( MCCs ), and generally form near weather fronts.

Plant City like all of Florida has a near tropical climate with humid and hot summers and warm, dry winters.