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THE cyclone season of the northern tropics is drawing to a close. The accounts of widespread damage to property and loss of life, both in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Far East, that have appeared recently in the newspapers, show that the storms that have already occurred will make this season a memorable one. It is not intended here to deal with these recent events, but rather to present the salient facts about the tropical cyclones of both hemispheres, and to indicate the extent to which these phenomena are understood at the present time.
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The storms of the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea appear to behave normally in this respect, but the great land mass to the north does not allow them to survive long enough to follow more than the first third or half of the typical path.
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NEWNHAM, E. The Tropical Cyclone. Nature 118, 524–526 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118524a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118524a0