| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Feeder bands | Weather | Lines or bands of low-level clouds that move (feed) into the updraft region of a thunderstorm, usually from the east through south (i.e., parallel to the inflow). Same as inflow bands. This term also is used in tropical meteorology to describe spiral-shaped bands of convection surrounding, and moving toward, the center of a tropical cyclone. (references) | |
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