In the Northern Hemisphere, severe winter weather in the midlatitudes is driven mostly by ________; these are air masses rotating counterclockwise about a low-pressure core.
A. anticyclones
B. derechos
C. tornadoes
D. cyclones
E. fronts
Answer: D
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