landfall
/ˈlændfɔl/
noun
- The arrival of a storm or hurricane at land after being over the ocean.
- Emergency crews prepared for the storm's landfall along the Gulf Coast.
- The hurricane is expected to make landfall near the coast tomorrow morning.
- Meteorologists tracked the typhoon as it approached landfall in the Philippines.
- The first sighting or reaching of land after a journey by sea or air.
- The pilot announced that landfall would be in about two hours.
- Their first landfall was a small island in the Pacific.
- After weeks at sea, the sailors cheered at the sight of landfall.
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