(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.
Windstorm
Definition:
(n.) A storm characterized by high wind with little or no rain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first clear weather conditions of the spring climbing season were Friday and Saturday, but a windstorm swept the higher altitudes of the mountain by Saturday afternoon, said Gyanendra Shrestha of Nepal's mountaineering department.
(2) The current year has already seen wildfires, a windstorm, heatwaves in much of the country and the most severe drought in half a century.
(3) New cases of acute primary coccidioidomycosis in large numbers resulted from a windstorm that blew through Kern County, California, on December 20, 1977.
(4) More recently, Northern Europe suffered a severe windstorm on 27 and 28 October.
(5) There are other pop destinies and there is original pop wisdom - yes, still, even now, despite the Brit Awards - and it is here in Kristeen's lyrics, a windstorm of confetti telling us (but nicely) how nothing and nowhere protects anyone.
(6) In most of these cases clinically apparent infections developed in early and mid-January 1978 and occurred not only in persons exposed directly to the dust raised by the windstorm but also among those in many areas to the north and west of Kern County.
(7) That window closed by Saturday afternoon with a windstorm at higher altitudes.