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Weather Hazards
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Match each term with its definition
Eyewall
Eye
Trade winds
Rainbands
Ring of the most intense winds, heaviest rainfall, and tallest cumulonimbus clouds surrounding the eye
Calm, cloudless centre of the storm, typically 30-65 km across, with descending warm air and very low pressure
Spiralling bands of cloud and rain extending outward from the eyewall for hundreds of kilometres
Prevailing easterly winds that steer tropical storms westward across the ocean