What's the difference between stormy and thundery?
Stormy
Definition:
(superl.) Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
(superl.) Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.
(1) Warning of more stormy weather to come he urged people to remain on alert in regions due for more heavy rain this Wednesday and Thursday.
(2) At first, nasogastric feeding was beneficial, but a stormy hospital course ensued.
(3) This suggests that rapid cycling affective disorder could be an underdiagnosed disorder, especially in patients with affective disorders who are receiving conventional antidepressant drugs who otherwise exhibit a stormy clinical course with numerous medication changes and hospitalizations.
(4) "Increased storminess, and increased extreme weather events generally, are likely to stress trees further, especially veteran trees.
(5) Libya's rebel leader Khalifa Haftar has played Iago to various Othellos through four decades of the country's stormy history, but his emergence at the head of forces storming parliament has finally cast him as the lead.
(6) Unscom had a stormy relationship with Iraq and was headed by a fiery individual, the Australian diplomat Richard Butler, and a former US marine, Scott Ritter.
(7) No further pre-morbid types were developed in the following years, if one discards the somewhat rare "stormy" character (Arieti, 1955).
(8) The patients showed stormy life-styles, some specific symptoms, personality abnormalities, presence of life events before the onset of depression, and a family history of alcoholism.
(9) Selectivity is based on an antibiotic system (polymyxin B sulfate and neomycin sulfate) incorporated into the medium, coupled with an incubation temprature of 46 to 48 degrees C for 24 h. Tubes were scored as positive if a stormy fermentation was observed.
(10) "A cold stormy rain set in" – unseasonal for July.
(11) Friday’s march in Acapulco took place under stormy skies, filling the boulevard that rings the resort’s famous bay.
(12) The remaining 14 cases, all of them with less than 3 factors each, survived the stormy attacks.
(13) The Index had a slow and stormy birth, with twenty-three years of hard work put in until the first volume was issued.
(14) Convalescence is stormy and morbidity higher when the placenta is not removed.
(15) Mourinho was fined £25,000 on Wednesday morning after the FA ruled he had overstepped the line with his remarks about the “campaign” against Chelsea and, later in the day, the governing body brought the charge against Costa, following Tuesday night’s stormy Capital One Cup semi-final against Liverpool, which Chelsea won.
(16) The disease had a stormy course and was characterized by moderate splenomegaly, persistently depressed WBC counts, extramedullary hemopoiesis and presence of a high percentage of atypical myeloblasts in the peripheral smear.
(17) The postoperative course was stormy in all patients, with a high incidence of complications and 70% died.
(18) Feige's mother, whose health was poor, did not have the strength for Palestine or the stormy crossing back across the Mediterranean.
(19) Although the coronary dissolution was obtained finally following aggressive cardiac massage, administration of spasmolytic agents, such as NTG, lidocaine, DBcAMP and the start of IABP, the resolution was stormy due to the hemodynamic derangement.
(20) A potentially stormy congressional hearing over the IRS scandal has been scheduled for Friday, as both Democrats and Republicans look for heads to roll over alleged targeting of conservative groups.
Thundery
Definition:
(a.) Accompanied with thunder; thunderous.
Example Sentences:
(1) As day dawned, first dark and thundery, later bright but still very breezy, locals and visitors gazed out as waves continued to pound the shore and reshape the famous beach.
(2) But it will get worse – by midweek, northerly or north-westerly winds will make us feel chilly, and by Thursday and Friday there are likely to be widespread heavy and thundery showers.
(3) On a thundery afternoon in the prosperous Sussex new town of Crawley the impact of that is distinctly less abstract.
(4) Histrionics, allegations of racism and propaganda onslaughts were the backdrop to a thundery night in Catalonia as Andrés Iniesta set up Pedro to extend Barcelona's 2-0 first-leg lead and Marcelo replied for Madrid, who left here blaming bad refereeing for their defeat.
(5) Tony Waters, its deputy chief forecaster, said: "We are expecting spells of very heavy and thundery rain across a wide area of the UK in the next few days, with worst affected spots likely to be in central and northern parts of the country.
(6) "There will be lots of sunny spells but during the afternoon we might see cloud building up and there is a chance of a thundery shower breaking out but that's the exception rather than the rule."
(7) Spelman's warning, coming after the wettest April on record and warnings of more heavy, thundery rain on the way for southern England and Wales, reinforces the message from water companies that they will be unlikely to lift the hosepipe bans any time soon .
(8) South-east Wales, the Midlands and northern parts of England are expected to experience isolated thundery downpours, which could cause problems with surface water.
(9) It said that heavy, slow-moving and thundery showers were expected to develop on Monday afternoon, bringing the risk of some torrential downpours, particularly across northern areas.
(10) The flooding in Todmorden followed a day of severe rain across the UK with heavy, slow-moving and thundery showers crossing the country.
(11) "Scotland and northern England will see spells of heavy, persistent rain today and there are indications that there could be some torrential, thundery outbreaks," she said.