Storms
Meaning
Storms, thunderstorms; rain (bullet, bomb,...)
Pronunciation
UK stɔːmz
US stɔrmz
Example Sentences
- Tornadoes mostly happen during strong thunderstorms called super cell storms.
- South-East [Queensland] (and the central New South [Wales] coast) experiences the most damaging individual storms anywhere in Australia.
- Storms have the potential to harm lives and property via storm surge, heavy rain or snow causing flooding or road impassibility, lightning, wildfires, and vertical wind shear.
- Storms do kill people.
- Desert storms are often accompanied by violent winds, and pass rapidly.
- Storms are created when a center of low pressure develops with the system of high pressure surrounding it.
- Each year, on average, severe storms are responsible for more damage (as measured by insurance costs) than tropical cyclones, earthquakes, floods, or bushfires.
- Mars has the largest dust storms in the solar system.
- Strong storms bring much bigger waves that can reshape a beach in just one night.
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