Primary cyclone
From Glossary of Meteorology
primary cyclone
(
Or primary low.) Any cyclone (or low), especially a frontal cyclone, within which a circulation of one or more secondary cyclones have developed.
Or primary low.) Any cyclone (or low), especially a frontal cyclone, within which a circulation of one or more secondary cyclones have developed.
The term is sometimes applied to the stronger of a system of two cyclones that together form a multilobed cyclone.