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landfall::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | sighting |
Examples of landfall
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Chauvin is located just north of Cocodrie, where Hurricane Gustav made landfall.
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Gandy turned out to be the most accurate in predicting the hurricane's landfall.
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In the 1970s, the average track error at 72 hours before landfall was 380 miles.
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Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
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Early on September 27, Nesat made landfall over the Luzon region of Philippines.
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Well after landfall, other parts of the Northeast were suffering Sandy's impact.
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Cabot sailed in 1497, successfully making landfall on the coast of Newfoundland.
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As a weak tropical storm, Dot dissipated after making landfall in eastern China.
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Even with the high activity, only about half the cyclones in 1962 made landfall.
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- The seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)
- Landfall is a 1949 British war film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett, Edith Sharpe, Kathleen Harrison, Maurice Denham and David Tomlinson. It is based on the 1940 novel, , written by author Nevil Shute.
- Landfall is New Zealand's oldest extant literary journal. First published in 1947 by Caxton Press, under the editorship of Charles Brasch, it features new fiction and poetry, biographical and critical essays, cultural commentary, and reviews of books, art, film, drama and dance.
- Landfall is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1971.
- Landfall is the event of a tropical cyclone (also known as a hurricane) or a waterspout coming onto land after being over water. When a waterspout makes landfall it is reclassified as a tornado, which can then cause damage inland. ...
- Arrival at the shore by ship; The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land
- The intersection of the surface center of a tropical cyclone with a coastline. Because the strongest winds in a tropical cyclone are not located precisely at the center, it is possible for a cyclone's strongest winds to be experienced over land even if landfall does not occur. ...
- Landfall means to approach, sight, or reach land.
- The point at which a tropical cyclone's eye first crosses a land mass.
