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The palmer drought severity index is used to rank the strength of a drought. when drought conditions are present over an area, are the pdsi values positive or negaitve?

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Meteorologists classify tropical cyclones using a measurement of sustained winds within the low-pressure system. How do meteorologists define a "sustained wind"?

it is a 1-minute averaged measure of the hurricane's maximum winds.

If a given year has more named storms than the name-list has names, how are additional storms named?

they are assigned names using the Greek alphabet.

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