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landfall
/ ˈlændˌfɔːl /
noun
- the act of sighting or nearing land, esp from the sea
- the land sighted or neared
Example Sentences
That would make it the strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in Somalia.
The primary metric they were interested in was the rate the hurricane lost strength over the first 24 hours after landfall.
In 1967, a typical storm’s intensity decayed by 76 percent within the first day after landfall.
Only five — Laura, Teddy, Delta, Epsilon and Eta — have become major hurricanes with winds topping 178 kilometers per hour, although only Laura and Eta made landfall near the peak of their strength as Category 4 storms.
Unusually, this is the first hurricane to make landfall in Florida this season.
As late as September 1, three days after Katrina made landfall, there were no coordinated efforts in the area.
And on making landfall in Bermuda he decided that this was the place to settle for a while and get writing songs.
As Sandy approached landfall six months ago, news media struggled to decide what to call the meteorological phenomenon.
Would downgrading it hours before landfall cause people to disregard warnings?
But when the storm makes landfall, you get the small waves along with the big, all mashed together in a disorganized jumble.
We were now approaching the longitude of D'Urville's landfall, and still the pack showed no signs of slackening.
The hunters had made what Mildmay characteristically designated “a bad landfall.”
Your real land-birds never know their own roosts, even in a landfall at sea.
The distance from the landfall to this point was nearly 300 leagues.
There is an island there named Thanet, which was the spot chosen for the landfall of our visitors.
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