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storm center

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storm center [′stȯrm ‚sen·tər]
(meteorology)
The area of lowest atmospheric pressure of a cyclone; this is a more general expression than eye of the storm, which refers only to the center of a well-developed tropical cyclone, in which there is a tendency of the skies to clear.


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True, the wind itself tore our canvas out of the gaskets, jerked out our topmasts, and made a raffle of our running gear, but still we would have come through nicely had we not been square in front of the advancing storm center.
The storm center had shifted to the young man with the cane.
 
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