How To Use Thunderstorm In A Sentence
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Typical mesocyclonic tornadoes are caused by intense thunderstorms with appropriate vertical and directional wind shear.
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They shoot up from the tops of thunderstorms about the same moment lightning discharges within the storm cloud.
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About 7 o'clock tonight, we had a whopping great thunderstorm with accompanying light show, and the flipping garage got flooded again!
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The first was that, though the sea was indeed rough, there was little rain, and the air lacked the clammy humidity of a thunderstorm.
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When you shut up your eyes , I like a duck in a thunderstorm . I can but stop and wait beside you whisht .
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The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm
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The child was frightened to death by the violent thunderstorm.
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Right now, the weather is great, but in the afternoon, they're concerned that these thunderstorms are going to move in, these so - called anvil clouds, which could contain rain or lightning, which could dangerous for the shuttle to launch.
CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2006
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The sun is finally out in Calgary, and despite a quick thunderstorm this afternoon, things seem to be drying out.
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Winds became gales and a thunderstorm suddenly appeared out of nowhere pouring sheets of raindrops.
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What a wonderful place the city had been to leave, as I looked down at it through the free and lucid air, the plane pitching in the thunderstorm which loomed as usual over Kenscoff.
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Count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder, each second represents 300 m distance from the thunderstorm.
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The afternoon thunderstorm has arrived, generated by strong onshore breezes at the end of a day of harsh tropical sunshine.
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The intense thunderstorm will quench the fires before they become wildfires and will dislodge the weaker numbers and prepare them for the next fire.
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As I type, an angry thunderstorm is rolling across the skies and the rain is lashing down onto the scorched pavements; now gently steaming.
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The telephone's influence is so pervasive that only when things go wrong with the technology - for example, a thunderstorm renders it inoperative - do our problem of isolation becomes apparent.
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This was a powerful weather front that also unleashed tremendous thunderstorms, hail and wind that damaged buildings.
Times, Sunday Times
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In particular, one very strong supercell thunderstorm moved southeastward across portions of Stanley, Jones, and Lyman counties.
Hailaceous: South Dakota hailstone breaks record
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To study Wang Zuoliang's translation version of Thunderstorm with the guidance of Relevance-Adaptation Model, it is easy to find out some authentic and unauthentic translation examples.
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The start was not auspicious as an earlier thunderstorm had given way to threatening clouds.
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This is the best time to avoid turbulence either from possible thunderstorms or heat convection from the sun.
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Mauve scabious and darker purple knapweed wave their heads in the aftermath of a summer thunderstorm.
Butterflies: out of the blue
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Convection cells on Earth cause thermals, breezes, thunderstorms and other weather patterns.
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It has not all been plain sailing with some intense rain and thunderstorms.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a very moist air mass ahead of this from the Gulf of Mexico, an eastwards moving line of severe thunderstorms was generated across the Mississippi Valley.
Weatherwatch: Blizzards in Bucharest, tornadoes in Arkansas
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That way, you'll know it wasn't fording the raging river, or facing down the grizzly, or surviving the thunderstorm that left you a little changed.
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The sweltering conditions will run into the middle of next week with the addition of the odd thunderstorm.
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These thunderstorms often produce heavy precipitation, which can cause soil erosion.
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We clawed our way up a high mountain ridge covered in fine, shifting talus and on the far side got caught in a thunderstorm.
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Stephen: Wow, you look like a drowned rat! Didn't you know there's a thunderstorm today?
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The sudden thunderstorm broke at approximately 4.30 pm caused flooding of up to two feet in some areas.
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A weather warning remained in place throughout the day with heavy showers and more thunderstorms expected.
Times, Sunday Times
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Quick downpours from summer thunderstorms can cause flash floods anywhere.
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Mthethwa said this system caused thunderstorm conditions, and this is what had resulted in hail on the highveld.
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On Wednesday, a line of supercell thunderstorms moved eastwards over Germany and Austria, then continued across the Czech Republic and Poland overnight.
Weatherwatch: global round-up
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Apocalyptic thunderstorms bookend the show, the first one orphaning a distinctly strange group of kids.
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Dry air drawn into the top of a thunderstorm is cooled and dragged down in showers of hail and rain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sprinkle had become a thunderstorm and the loud thunder resonating throughout her room made Amber spring from her bed in surprise.
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The goldfinches chittered and sang like drunken canaries and once in a thunderstorm a barred owl blundered into that fake crystal chandelier she had always detested.
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Meteorologists working behind me over here, this is John Hart (ph) and he's issuing what we call the convective outlook, the risk of where we're expecting to see the worst thunderstorms today and his computer is just like our computer at home and crashed on him, so he's really working hard and wasn't able to talk to us.
CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2007
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A little chanting, a little stretching and a little meditation later, I was home safe and sound before the thunderstorms came.
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Goya's painting represents the most dramatic scene in which Don Juan arrives at Don Gonzalo's tomb in a fierce thunderstorm.
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Even in thunderstorms and downpours the game continued, sometimes with just a brief break to allow the rain water to drain away.
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The thunderstorms became more tightly clustered around the core.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is primarily due to its ferocious monologues: long, rolling thunderstorms of eloquent rage.
Times, Sunday Times
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We've been having some turbulent weather - torrential downpours and thunderstorms.
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Tornadoes, downbursts, and straight-line winds arising from severe thunderstorms have long perturbed the forests of southeastern Arkansas, producing dramatic localized effects.
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The world's top golfers all pressed the self-destruct button as they completed a third round delayed by the threat of thunderstorms.
The Sun
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These particular circulations just happen to be located a bit further south, over 80-degree Atlantic waters, where their ability to trigger large thunderstorm clusters is facilitated by the semi-tropical climate.
Shary & friends keep tropical storm season alive
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Intense line of storms now headed over Chesapeake Bay towards Delmarva Peninsula where Severe Thunderstorm Warnings are in effect.
Alert: Tornado Watch for entire area until 8 p.m.
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Just after I left the site a huge thunderstorm broke over Greensboro which continued through the dusk.
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How did you manage to sleep through that thunderstorm?
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Some of the farmers have started haying -- tedding* cut hay in one field, baler parked in another, but with thunderstorms forecast for today and the next few days, they are pushing the edge.
Thursday roadkill report
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Marks said the herd gathered around a tall tree to shelter during a thunderstorm when lightning struck the tree.
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And in that disk, they can't have thunderstorms reported or those so-called anvil clouds, which essentially are a thunder head buildup that has kind of gotten the head of it sheered off.
CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2006
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And intense thunderstorms raged across the country through much of June in what was also an intensely hot summer.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is caused by the tremendous updraft and downdraft winds within the thunderstorm.
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Positively charged ice crystals rise to the top of the thunderstorm, and negatively charged ice particles and hailstones drop to the lower parts of the storm.
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Normally, the air that's moving down, called a downdraft, shares the thunderstorm with the updraft.
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There is a chance they will turn heavy with local thunderstorms.
The Sun
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Normally, the air that's moving down, called a downdraft, shares the thunderstorm with the updraft.
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Heavy downpours and thunderstorms are expected to push further north by Friday.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the hot weather also brought thunderstorms and torrents of rain in its wake.
Times, Sunday Times
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And of course there is the thunderstorm shower.
The Sun
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Composed mostly of ice, an anvil cloud gets its shape from the rising air in the thunderstorm that expands and spreads out as the air bumps up against the bottom of the stratosphere.
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When thunderstorms aren't uprooting forests or rearranging acres of farmland, the South often suffers hailstorms, flashfloods and torrentially ghoulish winds during this season.
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The opening evokes the peace of the mountains just before a dramatic thunderstorm.
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As I headed toward the forest, a tremendous thunderstorm broke.
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These types of funnel clouds form out of large cumulus clouds or very weak thunderstorms and normally do not have the energy to reach the ground.
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It was a hot, muggy afternoon, with the sort of tension in the air that meant rain would probably come soon, perhaps even a thunderstorm.
AFTERMATH
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Tornadic thunderstorms can also produce waterspouts and downbursts.
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Dry air drawn into the top of a thunderstorm is cooled and dragged down in showers of hail and rain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Medieval chroniclers recorded omens at all great events; for example, Froissart noted a heavy thunderstorm, an eclipse of the sun, and a hovering circle of crows before the battle of Crécy in 1346.
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While the primary goal was to study severe thunderstorms and their link to heavy rain and hail, scientists also gathered important data on lightning's role in triggering events above thunderclouds, like sprites.
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After our plan to snorkel Wednesday was cruelly dashed by a huge thunderstorm, today we finally made it snorkeling.
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On past experience this heatwave will end with a torrential downpour or a major thunderstorm, or both.
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Early cloud and mist in the eastern regions will give way to sunny spells and scattered showers or thunderstorms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The researchers found when Saharan dust is in the air, the anvils produced by Florida's convective thunderstorms tend to be a little smaller in area, but better organized and thicker.
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You can feel it, like a thunderstorm just off the edge of the horizon, when the leaves on the trees curl inward and the air feels charged and the hair stands up on your arm.
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Increased instability and humidity triggered heavy showers and thunderstorms on Thursday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, Carter busts the lid off the song, and achieves a rush of sound, Carter's reeds screaming, the percussion a rattling thunderstorm.
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It appears to be a case of thermotropism, where the flower buds sense the cold downdraft of a thunderstorm and constrict before the drowning rain arrives.
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The thunderstorm set the radio crackling.
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The thunderstorms that spin out tornadoes are big clouds with lots of water and ice in them to block sunlight.
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The start of the tie had been delayed after Friday's schedule was washed out with hours of rain, thunderstorms and lightning.
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mesocyclone," the core rotational structure of a thunderstorm, which can produce a tornado.
The New Yorker
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Speculation has focused on the heavy thunderstorms through which the aircraft was flying when it disappeared.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most significant features of the wet season are thunderstorms, tropical cyclones and rain depressions.
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But just as the Queen was about to arrive in her carriage a thunderstorm broke, forcing everyone to run for cover.
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And there arose a great noise like the terror of an intense thunderstorm as the assembled hosts oinked loudly in support and the council of swine-don murmured in appreciation of the oration of Napoleon and approved of his idea to use the swine flu as a weapon against the anti-swine-ites and the haters of ham.
Global Voices in English » Caribbean: When Pigs Fly?
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You can program a computer to simulate a thunderstorm but it's still just that - a simulation.
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In fact, some of the energy that helps create strong updrafts in land thunderstorms goes into creating a hurricane's 74 mph or stronger winds blowing along the ocean and ground.
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the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm
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The roads are unmade and flooded due to the thunderstorms.
Times, Sunday Times
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The really big hailstones usually accompany ferocious thunderstorms that produce tornados.
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Dry air drawn into the top of a thunderstorm is cooled and dragged down in showers of hail and rain.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, some of the energy that helps create strong updrafts in land thunderstorms goes into creating a hurricane's 74 mph or stronger winds blowing along the ocean and ground.
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“Our snow was not only shaken from whitewash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely white-ivied the walls and settled on the postman, opening the gate, like dumb, number thunderstorm of white, torn Christmas cards.”
Happy Holidays From the Hoary Hacks at Calbuzz
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There was a 70 percent chance of rain today, with a slight let-up on Saturday morning, but thunderstorms were expected later.
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Silent Poem backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile sawhorse bucksaw outhouse wellsweep backdoor flagstone bulkhead buttermilk candlestick ragrug firedog brownbread hilltop outcrop cowbell buttercup whetstone thunderstorm pitchfork steeplebush gristmill millstone cornmeal waterwheel watercress buckwheat firefly jewelweed gravestone groundpine windbreak bedrock weathercock snowfall starlight cockcrow
Marching (100x15)
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All the preceding afternoon and night heavy thunderstorms had hissed down upon the meads.
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It is caused by the tremendous updraft and downdraft winds within the thunderstorm.
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Hailstones are formed by winds known as updrafts that blow upward in thunderstorms.
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Thunderstorms containing mesocyclones are known as supercells, and sometimes produce destructive tornadoes.
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The cold air spread south on Thursday, with more widespread snow showers and thunderstorms.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sudden asthma attacks have been linked to thunderstorms in other countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stress-induced destructive behavior may also result from a phobia to thunderstorms or other loud noises.
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Tornadic thunderstorms can also produce waterspouts and downbursts.
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Strong upper air winds have a tendency to enhance the vertical mesocyclonic circulation occurring inside developing thunderstorms.
Tornadoes
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Thunderstorms will be more frequent than in April accompanied by hail and violent squally winds.
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Sudden asthma attacks have been linked to thunderstorms in other countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hidden amidst the towering buildings at the outermost edge of the city lay a small, ratty karaoke bar that seems to seek shelter from the raging thunderstorm, its shingled roof rattling harshly.
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Thunder was a thunderstorm, normal was just rain, sprinkle was a light shower, and mist was just damp.
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August is also a month for powerful thunderstorms, and for many places thunder and lightning this month reach their crescendo for the whole year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lightning strikes behind Mandalay Bay, left, and the Luxor as a thunderstorm passes through Las Vegas early in the morning of Sept. 11, 2011.
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The weather was scattered low clouds, light and variable winds, with thunderstorms in the area.
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This is the best time to avoid turbulence either from possible thunderstorms or heat convection from the sun.
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A sudden thunderstorm had drenched us to the skin.
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You know when you take a photo of a thunderstorm, and the lightning is all purple or pink?
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Carry one gallon of water per person per day, and beware of sudden wind gusts or thunderstorms.
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Beaches were deserted as atrocious rains, wind and some spectacular thunderstorms ruined summer holidays.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a thunderstorm drenches a big, hot city, there is a quick drop in power demand because suddenly millions of air conditioners don't have to work so hard.
Blistering heat wave stressing nation's power grid
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It is caused by the tremendous updraft and downdraft winds within the thunderstorm.
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Increased humidity and instability from the south triggered sharp showers and thunderstorms that night.
Times, Sunday Times
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Simpson took charge of Kew observatory where he continued his research on the electrical structure of thunderstorms and electrification of precipitation.
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I think I’ve demonstrated that with 1) the thermosphere temperature completely collapsing at night and 2) the stratopause not being as hot as you thought, and 3) thunderstorms transfering energy, there is no problem with earth releasing energy into the upper atmosphere, especially at night.
Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit
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Sudden asthma attacks have been linked to thunderstorms in other countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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The roads are unmade and flooded due to the thunderstorms.
Times, Sunday Times
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This series includes meteorological registers (data on rainfall, cloud and a weather diary), aerograms, anemographs, rain gauge records and rainfall charts, records of thunderstorms, wind direction and velocity, registers of synoptic reports etc produced by various climatological stations in Singapore and Malaya.
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Her hair was cut boy-short, a strange kind of brassy reddish-gold which made him think of thunderstorms.
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Severe thunderstorms are defined as convective storms with frequent lighting, accompanied by local wind gusts of 97 kilometers per hour, or hail that is 2 centimeters in diameter or larger.
Thunderstorm
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The tornado appeared during thunderstorms driven along a cold weather front.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thunderstorms that spin out tornadoes are big clouds with lots of water and ice in them to block sunlight.
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Which means that the lightning appeared far away from its parent thunderstorm - and showed that a bolt from the blue is no urban myth.
Times, Sunday Times
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But now the thunderstorm scrubs the air clear of any lingering harmattan grime leaving a sparkling blue sky with white puffy clouds and an astonishingly green and vibrant landscape whose existence I had almost forgotten about under the dust.
Seasons and Chickens « Cameroon
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TGFs have been correlated with lightning strikes and may be related to visible phenomena that occur in the upper atmosphere over thunderstorms, such as red sprites and blue jets.
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A huge thunderstorm broke over St. George's early this morning.
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After thunderstorms on the Florida coasts beach combers find fulgurite in the sands.
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The arrival of summer brings increased chances of thunderstorms and dangerous lightning.
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Amature meteorologists will recognize the cumulonimbus, a thunderstorm cloud characterized by the anvil shaped top.
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The horizontally rotating mass, called a mesocyclone, is the first clue to radar observers that a thunderstorm could produce a tornado.
Storm Warning
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Sudden asthma attacks have been linked to thunderstorms in other countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thunderstorms became more tightly clustered around the core.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the thunderstorm is moving rapidly toward or away from you, the mesocyclone may be harder to detect.
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At the time, I was looking for software to visualize my 3-D model data of microbursts, severe downdrafts that sometimes descend from thunderstorm clouds.
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Health officials also warned asthma sufferers yesterday that the combination of thunderstorms and high pollen counts could pose extra problems.
Times, Sunday Times
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Already we are witnessing numerous irregularities and disturbances in the climatic system - heat waves, floods, squalls, storms, cyclones and thunderstorms.
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To see how Sun Sensors performed in cloudy weather, we left the stickers out on a hazy, humid day a few hours before a thunderstorm struck.
Sun-Sensor Stickers for Kids Sunblock Application | Impact Lab
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On the way to the airport, a colossal thunderstorm broke.
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She's positively stratospheric, and her performance is like a chicken coop in a thunderstorm.
Times, Sunday Times
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When thunderstorms aren't uprooting forests or rearranging acres of farmland, the South often suffers hailstorms, flashfloods and torrentially ghoulish winds during this season.
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Since the aircraft's stormscope was not working, the pilot was flying blind into the thunderstorm, and as a result, he and his three passengers died.
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My brothers huddled in their tent that night while a thunderstorm raged over the mountain and rain poured down.
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But willy-nilly one must, come hail or thunderstorm.
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BRITAIN'S warm weather came to a halt as thunderstorms and rain lashed the country yesterday.
The Sun
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There have been five major airline accidents and countless general-aviation incidents recorded in which aircraft flew into well-developed, highly reflective thunderstorms with wet microbursts.
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It was at one time the custom to consecrate church bells in the expectation that their chimes would drive away thunderstorms and ensure safety from lightning.
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Underlying the creation of a new monodrama, an example ever before me is the story of a child frightened by a violent thunderstorm.
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The conditions required for tropical cyclones are also suitable conditions for thunderstorms, deep convective clouds with strong updraughts.
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At the time, I was looking for software to visualize my 3-D model data of microbursts, severe downdrafts that sometimes descend from thunderstorm clouds.
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Which means that the lightning appeared far away from its parent thunderstorm - and showed that a bolt from the blue is no urban myth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Violent thunderstorms and rain caused chaos on the region's roads and railways last night.
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Thunderstorm dangers include fierce up and down winds, called updrafts and downdrafts.
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And somewhere - I can't remember where we'd got to - this thunderstorm came and it belted down.
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About 15 miles from here, on July 13, 2002, a lightning bolt shot down from a summer thunderstorm, spearing a mountaintop grove.
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Les Scott holds the U.S. record for the two-pound hailstone that fell from the sky during a major thunderstorm in Vivian, S.D., on July 23 last year.
Mr. Scott's Hefty Hailstone
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Heavy rain turning to thunderstorms by early afternoon.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beaches were deserted as atrocious rains, wind and some spectacular thunderstorms ruined summer holidays.
Times, Sunday Times
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The local dog catcher will personally deliver your dog to its backyard if it gets out during a thunderstorm.
Christianity Today
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There's a full blown thunderstorm going on outside. Considering that it hasn't rained in weeks, we've got major water restrictions going on, and worse ones being threatened… yay!
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The threat's going to be ongoing though because we're in what we call the monsoon season, where afternoon thunderstorms are prevalent in the mountains hit and miss.
CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2007
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Lightning discharges also generate electromagnetic energy heard on radio receivers as spherics (crackles with very low frequencies), which may be used to locate distant thunderstorms.
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While hailstones are ice, hail is mostly a summer phenomena because the strong thunderstorms needed to produce hail are much more common during warm weather.
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Tragedy struck again in 1955, when another thunderstorm burst with a deluge of rain.
Times, Sunday Times
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More heavy rain and thunderstorms were forecast over the weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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During WWII, EMI was commonly known as a gremlin who would take over the electrical system of a fighter plane wrecking havoc on the control systems, especially during thunderstorms or highly charged atmosphere.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
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The most significant features of the wet season are thunderstorms, tropical cyclones and rain depressions.
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A thunderstorm hit us with no warning and we lay soaked, silent and shivering with cold as the lightning and thunder crashed around us.
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A trough of low pressure over hilly areas will bring heavy thunderstorms overnight.
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Unlike tornadoes, which develop from columns of rotating air, straight-line winds erupt from a thunderstorm in unpredictable downdrafts, then spread across the landscape in all directions.
Powerful spring storms kill 9 in Ark., Okla.
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In the middle of an incessant thunderstorm, with hailstones making vision almost impossible, feeling cold and hungry, 50 miles from home, the enormity of what I was letting myself in for began to sink in.
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There are the expected childhood fears - the dark, deep water, barking dogs, thunderstorms, spiders, the suck of the emptying bath.
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Warm, humid conditions are very favorable for thunderstorm development as strong updrafts feed warm, moist air into thunderstorms.
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The contrivance which strands the cast at this ominous place is a massive thunderstorm, which floods out both directions of the lone highway.
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But the heat wave soon turned into thunderstorms, torrents of rain and hail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elsewhere in the Kingdom they've been having major thunderstorms and torrential downpours so I'm not going to complain when all we've had is a long case of the metereological sulks.
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It was a hot, muggy afternoon, with the sort of tension in the air that meant rain would probably come soon, perhaps even a thunderstorm.
AFTERMATH
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Monday dawned with thunderstorms and a downpour of tropical intensity, but by midday the sun was out again.
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With thunderstorms come lightning strikes, and this summer has seen a number of incidents.
Times, Sunday Times
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A Kirkby Lonsdale woman had a narrow escape when lightning struck the shop she was working in as a violent thunderstorm engulfed the town.
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The water poured off the roofs in torrents, and thunderstorms rent the night skies with brilliant flashes of lightning.
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As crews prepare the space shuttle for launch at the Kennedy Space Center, Weather Officer Kathy Winters is keeping an eye on the slow-moving front that has worked its way across US southern states in recent days spawning severe thunderstorms and devastating tornadoes.
Space Shuttle Endeavor Ready for its Last Mission
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Cold air would certainly warm out east and that has helped trigging some of those thunderstorms.
CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2008
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Australia's Bureau of Meteorology warned that heavy rains and thunderstorms would continue over two stretches of land inland from the sugar mill town of Bundaberg and southeast of the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland state, leading to localized flash floods and worsening river flooding.
Floods Hit Another Australian Town
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Like sheet lightning, these flashes are created by lightning bolts, but are in thunderstorms more than 10 miles away.
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They experienced directly a conflict of powers, one hostile to the harvest, the other frightening but beneficial: the thunderstorm reprieved them in the nick of time by defeating and utterly destroying the drought.
In the Valley of the Shadow
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The start of the main race was delayed after a thunderstorm hit the circuit, causing heavy flooding, with water coursing across the track in several places.
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The thunderstorm may settle the weather.
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There is a thunderstorm outside that may wash out the scheduled explosion; in the cantina, despite anxiety about the future, the talk remains close to becalmed.
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He took the photograph just after a massive thunderstorm and you can almost feel how oppressive the atmosphere must have been.
The Sun
