(n.) A storm accompanied with lightning and thunder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 5.02am GMT 4.48am GMT A tweet from the Australian Financial Review’s political correspondent Phillip Coorey: Phillip Coorey (@PhillipCoorey) Thunderstorm brewing over Parl House.
(2) 2 December – Rocinha A pregnant woman has to be rescued from a landslide in the Trampolim neighbourhood of Rocinha after a thunderstorm hits our community.
(3) During the thunderstorms of the past week the roof has begun leaking.
(4) July and August failed to produce their usual thunderstorms and those that did occur brought little rainfall.
(5) I've long suspected a connection between my migraines and thunderstorms, as well as hot, bright weather; but that's nothing compared with Dawn Binks's experience of the links between weather and migraine.
(6) As before an August thunderstorm, the air is heavy with the coming transformation, the rain, the lightning, the release.
(7) The Environment Agency said people across central and eastern England should remain on alert for possible floods as heavy thunderstorms were forecast for many areas on Friday and Saturday.
(8) In most patients symptoms began at the time of sudden climatic changes associated with a thunderstorm.
(9) If this meets cooler air from the Atlantic, the warm air can be forced rapidly upwards to produce thunderstorms.
(10) Thunderstorms are forecast for Charlotte this week, which shouldn't be a problem Tuesday and Wednesday when the convention is being held indoors.
(11) The possibility of thunderstorms comes from very warm and humid air moving up from the Spanish plains to the UK.
(12) They brought the Stanley Cup into the building early in the third, and at the end of a mid-June steam press of a day in Boston, with thunderstorms rolling through, the ice began to drip and pool.
(13) a thunderstorm breaks out over the City of London November 20, 2013 12.30pm GMT Session ended with Goldman's dirty washing on display The session finished with committee chair Adrian Bailey asking Goldman Sachs's Richard Cormack about a legal case brought against Goldman in America, over its handling of an IPO.
(14) Bands of cloud, containing rain and thunderstorms, swirl into the center of the low, and extend over the British Isles.
(15) Other trends in severe storms, including the intensity and frequency of tornadoes, hail, and damaging thunderstorm winds, are uncertain and are being studied intensively.” • Precipitation: “ Average U.S. precipitation has increased since 1900, but some areas have had increases greater than the national average, and some areas have had decreases.
(16) Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims had already arrived in Mecca when the massive red and white crane toppled over during a Friday thunderstorm.
(17) The country’s monarch, King Salman, has promised to find out what caused the construction crane to topple over during a thunderstorm.
(18) A thunderstorm erupts in Miami one hour, and coasts over Havana the next.
(19) There was a significant positive correlation between the time of attempted suicide and the weather parameters "stable upslide, labile upslide, fog, thunderstorm, warm air, upslide and weather drier than on the 2 preceding days".
(20) Although the request to go higher to avoid bad weather is not an unusual one, pilots are aware that flying over a thunderstorm will not necessarily mean clearing it: according to forecasters at Indonesia’s meteorology agency, dense storm clouds were detected up to 44,000ft when the plane was reported to have lost contact.
Tornado
Definition:
(n.) A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
(2) In 2009 the Saudi air force used UK-supplied Tornado fighter-bombers in attacks in Yemen which killed hundreds – possibly thousands – of civilians.
(3) Violent emotions, especially in teenagers, are like spring tornadoes: their departure is as sudden as their violent arrival.
(4) The Tornados, based at Akrotiri in Cyprus, rely on Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker aircraft to sustain long-distance air patrols.
(5) Banner says that her work progresses more by accident than by design, although she clearly works hard, spending long days alone in her studio with her dog, Olive (a mongrel or "Hackney orgy dog" who recently took a tumble through the hole in the floorboards around Tornado Nude).
(6) South Carolina recorded a high turnout of about 600,000 on a day of heavy rain and a tornado warning.
(7) The call to the UK is made because it is a major supplier of weapons to Saudi Arabia, including a recent consignment of 500lb Paveway IV bombs, used by Tornado and Typhoon fighter jets, which are manufactured and supplied by the UK arms company BAE Systems.
(8) The third potential casualty – RAF Marham, in Norfolk, the base of Tornados engaged in air strikes over Libya – will be saved.
(9) The failure to apologise to Corbyn seemed to bother the prime minister a great deal more than it did his opponents, as he went on to admit he didn’t have an exit strategy for military action; he didn’t have a clue if there were 70,000 moderate Syrian ground troops and he didn’t quite know what a couple of Tornados could bring to the party.
(10) Those hospitalized or deceased had statistically significantly more deep cuts, concussions, unconsciousness and broken bones than those with them at the time of the tornado who were not hospitalized or killed.
(11) However, although the Tornados are ready to begin air strikes, sources said the task of choosing appropriate targets – many of them moving and small – would be a challenge for intelligence-gatherers.
(12) Although the Americans have launched air strikes against Isis, the RAF Tornado jets dispatched to the region have only been involved in surveillance.
(13) If the Harriers do fall victim to the Tornados, there may be no suitable aircraft available to fly from the first carrier, the Queen Elizabeth, which is due to enter service in 2016.
(14) "That's where all the CGI stuff came from – the tornados, the birds, the rain.
(15) And, if that happens, many of the controversies which raged in 2009 – when her crushing world 800m title triumph was overshadowed by accusations and insinuations about her gender – will again swirl around Rio like a tornado.
(16) She felt hollow and lifeless and compared herself to the calm centre of a tornado, "moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo", she writes.
(17) A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said : “Tornado teams are not necessarily launched in response to violent incidents.
(18) The RAF Tornados, based in Britain’s base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, can fire radar-guided anti-armour Brimstone missiles, which are conservatively estimated to cost £100,000 each; heavier Paveway IV bombs, estimated at £30,000 apiece; and long-range Storm Shadow missiles, estimated at nearly £790,000 each.
(19) The Ministry of Justice has not yet released figures for the Tornado squads for 2016, but recent figures for the deployment of the national tactical response group which deals with more minor incidents including rooftop protests, showed they were being deployed more than 60 times a month last summer.
(20) Saying that a Tornado GR4 would have been flying anyway, so using it over Libya does not incur extra costs masks a number of facts.