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Dust storms frequently develop during periods of droughts, or over arid and semi-arid regions. A massive dust storm cloud is close to enveloping a military camp as it rolls over Al Asad Airbase, Iraq, just before nightfall on 27 April 2005. Dust storms have numerous hazards and are capable of causing deaths.
Blood rain; Cold drop (Spanish: gota fría; archaic as a meteorological term), colloquially, any high impact rainfall event along the Mediterranean coast of Spain; Drought, a prolonged water supply shortage, often caused by persistent lack of, or much reduced, rainfall; Floods. Flash flood; Rainstorm; Red rain in Kerala (for related phenomena ...
Cumulonimbus are a notable hazard to aviation due most importantly to potent wind currents but also reduced visibility and lightning, as well as icing and hail if flying inside the cloud. Within and in the vicinity of thunderstorms there is significant turbulence and clear-air turbulence (particularly downwind), respectively.
Due to this, these storms are sometimes referred to as rotating thunderstorms. [2] Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (supercell, squall line, multi-cell, and single-cell), supercells are the overall least common and have the potential to be the most severe. Supercells are often isolated from other thunderstorms, and can dominate the ...
Organized thunderstorms and thunderstorm clusters/lines can have longer life cycles as they form in environments of significant vertical wind shear, normally greater than 25 knots (13 m/s) in the lowest 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) of the troposphere, [21] which aids the development of stronger updrafts as well as various forms of severe weather.
The same storm system that began producing severe weather and torrential rain in the southern United States Monday will pivot northeastward and is poised to set off severe thunderstorms from the ...
A severe thunderstorm outbreak, also called a severe weather outbreak or simply a severe outbreak, is an event in which a weather system or combination of weather systems produces a multitude of severe thunderstorms in a region over a continuous span of time.
A line of storms in the central U.S. could unleash tornadoes and a barrage of dangerous conditions on Wednesday, meteorologists warn. Tornadoes, hail, torrential rain threaten central US states as ...