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Hurricane Otto (2010), the Glossary

Hurricane Otto produced days of torrential rain over much of the northeastern Caribbean in October 2010.^[1]

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2010 Atlantic hurricane season
2010 in Puerto Rico
2010 in Saint Kitts and Nevis
2010 in Saint Lucia
2010 in Sint Maarten
2010 in the British Virgin Islands
2010 in the United States Virgin Islands
2010 natural disasters
Hurricanes in the British Virgin Islands
Hurricanes in the United States Virgin Islands

Asphalt concrete

Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams.

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Atlantic hurricane

An Atlantic hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone that forms in the Atlantic Ocean primarily between June and November.

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Atmospheric convection

Atmospheric convection is the result of a parcel-environment instability (temperature difference layer) in the atmosphere.

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Azores

The Azores (Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira).

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Bermuda

Bermuda (historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla.

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Canary Islands

The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.

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Cayey, Puerto Rico

Cayey, officially Cayey de Muesas, is a mountain town and municipality in central Puerto Rico located on the Sierra de Cayey within the Central Mountain range, north of Salinas and Guayama; south of Cidra and Caguas; east of Aibonito and Salinas; and west of San Lorenzo.

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Central dense overcast

The central dense overcast, or CDO, of a tropical cyclone or strong subtropical cyclone is the large central area of thunderstorms surrounding its circulation center, caused by the formation of its eyewall.

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Coastal erosion

Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coastline due to the action of waves, currents, tides, wind-driven water, waterborne ice, or other impacts of storms.

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Cold-core low

A cold-core low, also known as an upper level low or cold-core cyclone, is a cyclone aloft which has an associated cold pool of air residing at high altitude within the Earth's troposphere, without a frontal structure.

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Collectivity of Saint Martin

The Collectivity of Saint Martin (Collectivité de Saint-Martin), commonly known as simply Saint Martin (Saint-Martin), is an overseas collectivity of France in the West Indies in the Caribbean, on the northern half of the island of Saint Martin, as well as some smaller adjacent islands.

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Convection

Convection is single or multiphase fluid flow that occurs spontaneously due to the combined effects of material property heterogeneity and body forces on a fluid, most commonly density and gravity (see buoyancy).

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Dennery District

Dennery District is one of 10 districts (formerly Quarters) of the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia.

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Disaster area

A disaster area is a region or a locale that has been heavily damaged by either natural, technological or social hazards.

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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Eastern Caribbean dollar

The Eastern Caribbean dollar (symbol: EC$; code: XCD) is the currency of all seven full members and one associate member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).

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Euro

The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.

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Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones, are low-pressure areas which, along with the anticyclones of high-pressure areas, drive the weather over much of the Earth.

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Eye (cyclone)

The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of a tropical cyclone.

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Flash flood

A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions.

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Government of Puerto Rico

The government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a republican form of government with separation of powers, subject to the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Grand Turk Island

Grand Turk is an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory, tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean and northern West Indies.

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High-pressure area

A high-pressure area, high, or anticyclone, is an area near the surface of a planet where the atmospheric pressure is greater than the pressure in the surrounding regions.

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Hurricane Earl (2010)

Hurricane Earl was a long-lived and powerful Cape Verde hurricane that impacted the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, the East Coast of the United States, and Eastern Canada. Hurricane Otto (2010) and hurricane Earl (2010) are 2010 Atlantic hurricane season, hurricanes in Puerto Rico, hurricanes in the British Virgin Islands, hurricanes in the Leeward Islands, hurricanes in the United States Virgin Islands and tropical cyclones in 2010.

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Hurricane hunters

Hurricane hunters, typhoon hunters, or cyclone hunters are aircrews that fly into tropical cyclones to gather weather data.

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Hurricane Rafael

Hurricane Rafael produced minor damage in the northeastern Caribbean Sea in mid-October 2012. Hurricane Otto (2010) and Hurricane Rafael are category 1 Atlantic hurricanes, hurricanes in Puerto Rico, hurricanes in the British Virgin Islands, hurricanes in the Leeward Islands and hurricanes in the United States Virgin Islands.

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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is a worldwide humanitarian aid organization that reaches 160 million people each year through its 191 member National Societies.

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Landslide

Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.

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Leeward Islands

The Leeward Islands are a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean.

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Lesser Antilles

The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.

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List of Category 1 Atlantic hurricanes

Category 1 is the lowest hurricane classification on the Saffir–Simpson scale. Hurricane Otto (2010) and List of Category 1 Atlantic hurricanes are category 1 Atlantic hurricanes.

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Low-pressure area

In meteorology, a low-pressure area, low area or low is a region where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations.

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Morocco

Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.

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National Hurricane Center

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is the division of the United States' NOAA/National Weather Service responsible for tracking and predicting tropical weather systems between the Prime Meridian and the 140th meridian west poleward to the 30th parallel north in the northeast Pacific Ocean and the 31st parallel north in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

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National Weather Service

The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.

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Netherlands Antillean guilder

The Netherlands Antillean guilder (gulden; florin) is the currency of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which until 2010 formed the Netherlands Antilles along with Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius.

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Numerical weather prediction

Numerical weather prediction (NWP) uses mathematical models of the atmosphere and oceans to predict the weather based on current weather conditions.

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Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico.

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Portugués River

Río Portugués is a river in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Puerto Rico

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Radius of maximum wind

The radius of maximum wind (RMW) is the distance between the center of a cyclone and its band of strongest winds.

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Rainband

A rainband is a cloud and precipitation structure associated with an area of rainfall which is significantly elongated.

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Río Grande de Arecibo

The Río Grande de Arecibo (Arecibo River) is a river of Puerto Rico.

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Red Hook, U.S. Virgin Islands

Red Hook is a town located on the east side of Saint Thomas in the East End subdistrict.

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Road Town

Road Town, located on Tortola, is the capital and largest town of the British Virgin Islands.

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Saffir–Simpson scale

The Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS) classifies hurricanes—which in the Western Hemisphere are tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms—into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds.

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Saint Croix

Saint Croix (Santa Cruz; Sint-Kruis; Sainte-Croix; Danish and Sankt Croix; Ay Ay) is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint John (Sankt Jan; San Juan) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis, officially the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, is an island country consisting of the two islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis, both located in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands chain of the Lesser Antilles.

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean.

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Saint Martin (island)

Saint Martin (Saint-Martin; Sint Maarten) is an island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately east of Puerto Rico.

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Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas (Sankt Thomas, Santo Tomás, Saint-Thomas) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Satellite imagery

Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.

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Sea surface temperature

Sea surface temperature (or ocean surface temperature) is the temperature of ocean water close to the surface.

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Sint Maarten

Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Special sensor microwave/imager

The Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) is a seven-channel, four-frequency, linearly polarized passive microwave radiometer system.

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State of emergency

A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to put through policies that it would normally not be permitted to do, for the safety and protection of its citizens.

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Subtropical cyclone

A subtropical cyclone is a weather system that has some characteristics of both tropical and extratropical cyclones.

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Tortola

Tortola is the largest and most populated island of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands.

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Tropical cyclogenesis

Tropical cyclogenesis is the development and strengthening of a tropical cyclone in the atmosphere.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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Tropical Storm Laura (2008)

Tropical Storm Laura was a large but short-lived tropical cyclone that developed over the north-central Atlantic Ocean in late September during the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.

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Tropical wave

A tropical wave (also called easterly wave, tropical easterly wave, and African easterly wave), in and around the Atlantic Ocean, is a type of atmospheric trough, an elongated area of relatively low air pressure, oriented north to south, which moves from east to west across the tropics, causing areas of cloudiness and thunderstorms.

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Trough (meteorology)

A trough is an elongated region of relatively low atmospheric pressure without a closed isobaric contour that would define it as a low pressure area.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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United States Virgin Islands

The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States.

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Utuado, Puerto Rico

Utuado is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central mountainous region of the island known as the Cordillera Central.

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Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands (Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea.

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Weather front

A weather front is a boundary separating air masses for which several characteristics differ, such as air density, wind, temperature, and humidity.

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Weather Prediction Center

The Weather Prediction Center (WPC), located in College Park, Maryland, is one of nine service centers under the umbrella of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), a part of the National Weather Service (NWS), which in turn is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the U.S.

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