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warm sector

noun

, Meteorology.
  1. the region of warmest air bounded by the cold and warm fronts of a cyclone.


warm sector

noun

  1. meteorol a wedge of warm air between the warm and cold fronts of a depression, which is eventually occluded See also cold front warm front
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The ideal setup in the D.C. area for these conditions is a springtime “warm sector,” in which a large-scale region of low pressure tracks to the north and west of our region.

Heavy rain: This is the most widespread anticipated hazard, given very humid air imported by ex-Ida’s tropical air mass, and increased moisture pulled northward into the warm sector of the transforming storm.

Rainfall will fall in the form of several heavy showers, as thunderstorm cells organize into bandlike structures in the warm sector of the storm.

“If the warm sector tracks a bit further north, this could put the Washington D.C. region in play for a few strong to possibly severe storms,” said Jeff Halverson, Capital Weather Gang’s severe weather expert, in an email.

As we get into the storm’s warm sector Thursday, brisk southerly winds will tap moisture from as far away as the tropics, as shown below.

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