Used in a sentence: "Last week on Wednesday, I talked about how my favorite new Florida weather word was 'invest' (the early name for a storm that might turn into a hurricane that needs to be 'investigated') ... but now it's already been quickly replaced by something else I saw on the news during coverage of Hermine hitting upstate Florida ... an emphasis on watching out for the dirty quadrant."
Admittedly, when I heard the phrase, I immediately thought of some of my favorite places to visit when I'm in my new go-to vacation spot in New Orleans ... but it turns out that's not what it meant at all. Instead, it's the colloquial name for the right front quadrant of a storm -- which has higher winds, higher seas and higher storm surges. What with hurricane season still running for almost two more months, now I know to be *especially* aware of where the dirty quadrant is going to make landfall.
HURRICANE STUFF, 'CAUSE SCIENCE YO:
http://www.hurricanescience.org/science/science/hurricanestructure/
A REFERENCE TO THE DIRTY QUADRANT:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0923_050923_rita_prepare_2.html
WHY *WHERE* THE HURRICANE HITS IS ALSO IMPORTANT:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/D6.html
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