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Cyclone
A system of winds that rotates about a centre of low atmospheric pressure. Rotation is clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Indian Ocean, the term refers to the powerful storms called hurricanes in the Atlantic.
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