adjective

• Situated or occurring outside the tropics.

  ‘extratropical cyclones’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Storms that form elsewhere are extratropical cyclones.’
  • ‘The strong winds that hit the Pacific Coast are from extratropical storms, not hurricanes, which are tropical cyclones.’
  • ‘Winter storms are extratropical storms and all are a mixture of warm and cold air.’
  • ‘Elsewhere in the southern states, flooding is mostly a winter-spring phenomenon, associated with unusually frequent or active extratropical depressions and fronts.’
  • ‘Data collection was limited to extratropical regions to avoid the poor preservation and minimal sampling associated with tropical environments during this time.’