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What is a tropical depression?

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Dateline article| David Murphy|

A tropical depression is a disturbance that sometimes develops into a tropical storm and eventually a hurricane. It's also one step up from a tropical wave. A tropical depression is a rotating tropical cyclone with maximum winds of 38 mph or less.

---D.M.

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