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(physics, meteorology) The boundary between two different air masses, or a portion thereof, which produces appreciable cloudiness and precipitation and is usually accompanied by significant shifts in wind direction.
adj
Having a form similar to that of air.
adj
Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
n
(meteorology) A warm or cold front at which there is upward movement of the warm-sector air, commonly producing clouds and precipitation.
n
(poetic) Uncountable laughter, said of ocean waves sparkling in sunlight.
n
(meteorology) the development or strengthening of anticyclonic circulation in the atmosphere.
n
(meteorology) The weakening or termination of anticyclonic circulation in the atmosphere.
n
(meteorology) a system of winds that spiral out from a centre of high pressure
n
(meteorology) The upper, contrary-moving current of the atmosphere over a monsoon.
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A cold front of very cold arctic air advancing on somewhat less cold air.
n
Alternative form of arkstorm [(meteorology) A very severe rainstorm lasting for many days, fed by an atmospheric river, causing massive flooding.]
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(meteorology) A very severe rainstorm lasting for many days, fed by an atmospheric river, causing massive flooding.
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A thunderstorm, in the presence of a large amount of pollen, in which the pollen grains are broken up into granules small enough to cause asthma
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(meteorology) a narrow and long band of atmospheric moisture that transports a lot of water vapour, originating from the tropics, in a manner superficially similar to how a terrestrial river transports water
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A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
n
(meteorology) A type of extratropical cyclone characterized by high winds, a high level of precipitation, and rapid development.
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(meteorology) Rapid or extreme cyclogenesis, often characterized by a barometric pressure drop of 24 millibars in a 24 hour period.
n
(meteorology) A location referred to when issuing watches, warnings, or advisories for specific areas.
n
The forming of a storm or the gathering of clouds.
n
(idiomatic) A large number of insects in the air, especially when passed through by a vehicle.
n
A spate of intense publicity or interest over something.
n
Alternative form of katafront [(meteorology) A weak frontal condition in which warm-sector air sinks relative to colder air.]
n
(meteorology) A fallstreak hole.
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(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
n
(nautical) A violent squall with thunder and lightning, encountered during the rainy season along the Pacific coast of Central America and South America.
n
(meteorology) Convective inhibition.
n
(meteorology) Synonym of fallstreak hole
n
Alternative form of cloudburst [A sudden heavy rainstorm.]
n
A sudden heavy rainstorm.
n
The flow of a cloud over a mountain ridge or cliff.
n
(meteorology) A pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.
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(meteorology) The leading edge of an advancing mass of cold air.
n
An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
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An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.
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(meteorology) The vertical movement of heat and moisture, especially by updrafts and downdrafts in an unstable air mass. The terms convection and thunderstorm are often used interchangeably, although thunderstorms are only one form of convection. Towering cumulus clouds are visible forms of convection.
n
(Australia, southeast Australia) The arrival of a cold front in the afternoon or evening after a day of high summertime temperatures. The arrival of the front often produces falls in temperature in the order of 10°C to 15°C and sometimes thunderstorm activity.
v
(intransitive) Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak.
n
(meteorology) The process which leads to the formation of tropical storms, cyclones and hurricanes; typically involves an interaction that leads to vertical wind shear.
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(meteorology) The weakening or termination of a cyclonic circulation in the atmosphere
n
(broad sense) A weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure
n
The occurrence of two or more cyclones converging over a small region of land; a compact tornado family (or more generally, cyclone family).
n
(meteorology) The diffusion of air from an organized current into the general atmosphere.
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(meteorology) A powerful downward air current, especially one during a thunderstorm, often creating powerful divergent horizontal winds and strong wind shear upon impacting the surface.
n
(meteorology) An imaginary line across a continent that separates moist air from an eastern body of water and dry desert air from the west.
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The period of time in which these storms took place.
n
Alternative spelling of duststorm [phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.]
n
phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.
n
(fantasy) An extremely powerful earthquake; a storm involving earth or rock blowing through the air.
n
(in the plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.
n
A 2006 storm, first hurricane of the season.
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A weather system that was a tropical cyclone but has moved out of the tropics, typically losing the eyewall and symmetrical cloud pattern but still having considerable potential for severe weather.
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(meteorology) A decline in the barometric pressure of twenty-four millibars over a twenty-four hour period at or north of sixty-degrees latitude.
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A region of calm weather right in the middle of a storm.
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A ring of towering thunderstorms where the most severe weather of a cyclone occurs.
n
A small-scale rotational feature found in the eyewalls of intense hurricanes and typhoons.
v
(meteorology) Of weather: to clear.
n
Alternative form of firestorm [A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.]
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Alternative form of firestorm [A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.]
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A true tornado generated by a firestorm.
n
(figuratively) An intense or violent altercation.
n
A storm, particularly a hurricane or tropical storm, which turns out in the open Atlantic or Pacific and poses no threat to land.
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A storm of short duration.
n
(obsolete) Bits of down.
n
A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
n
Obsolete spelling of hurricane [A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.]
n
A powerful storm that occurs on or around Halloween
n
(meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature.
adj
(meteorology) Of or relating to a weather front.
n
(meteorology) The degeneration or dissipation of an atmospheric weather front.
n
(US, meteorology) A scale used to rate the intensity of a tornado; now superseded by the Enhanced Fujita scale.
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(meteorology) An outflow boundary.
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(meteorology) A global-scale tropical atmospheric circulation that features air rising near the Equator, flowing poleward at a height of 10 to 15 kilometers above the earth's surface, descending in the subtropics, and then returning equatorward near the surface. This circulation creates the trade winds, tropical rain-belts and hurricanes, subtropical deserts and the jet streams.
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(meteorology) The circulation of air in a Hadley cell.
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(meteorology, countable) An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
n
(weather) a region of intense rain and hail accompanied by a strong downdraft
n
A storm characterized by lots of large hail.
n
Alternative spelling of hail storm [A storm characterized by lots of large hail.]
n
Obsolete spelling of hurricane [A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.]
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(meteorology) Synonym of fallstreak hole
n
A storm of such force that it occurs only once every one hundred years approximately.
n
A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.
n
(obsolete) A waterspout; a hurricane.
n
(meteorology, very rare) An hypothetical class of an extremely severe hurricane with ocean temperatures reaching approximately 50 °C (122 °F) and formed by significant conditions, such as extensive global warming, having wind speeds exceeding 800 kilometers per hour (500 mph).
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The weather front that continuously occurs near the equator due to the mixing between the two tropical zones of the atmosphere.
n
(meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.
adj
(meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting 10 percent to 20 percent of a forecast zone.
n
Abbreviation of intertropical front. [The weather front that continuously occurs near the equator due to the mixing between the two tropical zones of the atmosphere.]
n
(meteorology) A weak frontal condition in which warm-sector air sinks relative to colder air.
n
The 11th hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which caused catastrophic damage to Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama.
n
Nonstandard spelling of La Niña. [(sometimes attributive) A sustained sea-surface temperature anomaly of magnitude greater than 0.5°C across the central tropical Pacific Ocean, associated with a negative anomaly and producing predictable variations in local and regional weather patterns.]
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(meteorology, informal) A tropical depression over land whose satellite signature resembles that of a typhoon.
n
A kind of tornado not associated with the mesocyclone of a thunderstorm.
n
Alternative spelling of leaf-storm [A sudden whirlwind or downpour of leaves.]
n
A sudden whirlwind or downpour of leaves.
n
Alternative spelling of leaf-storm [A sudden whirlwind or downpour of leaves.]
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(meteorology) A strong downdraft, of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds.
n
(meteorology) The largest element of the intraseasonal variability in the tropical atmosphere: a large-scale coupling between atmospheric circulation and tropical deep convection, manifesting itself most clearly as anomalous rainfall.
n
A large and violent whirlpool.
n
(meteorology) A hurricane-like storm that forms in the Mediterranean Sea.
n
Alternative spelling of megastorm [A major storm (weather phenomenon) capable of causing catastrophic damage.]
n
A major storm (weather phenomenon) capable of causing catastrophic damage.
n
An area of vertical atmospheric rotation in supercell thunderstorms, which signals the threat of a possible tornado.
n
A huge complex of thunderstorms that can sometimes reach the size of Texas.
n
A small-scale, vertical vortex of air associated with a thunderstorm that occurs at less than one kilometer from the ground and is between 2-20 kilometers in width.
n
A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
adj
Influenced by the weather.
n
A tsunami-like wave of meteorological origin.
n
(meteorology) A strong downdraft, of less than 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damaging winds and powerful wind shear.
n
A point in time during a storm.
n
(meteorology) Mean layer convective inhibition, higher values of which reduce storm formation.
n
Entire meteorological systems with such characteristics.
n
(meteorology) A small subtropical cyclones below 100 miles in diameter, formed from mesoscale features.
adj
(meteorology) (of air) forced upwards by colder, denser air
n
(meteorology) An occluded front.
n
A storm of such force that it occurs only once every one hundred years approximately.
n
A storm-scale or mesoscale boundary separating thunderstorm-cooled air (outflow) from the surrounding air, with a similar effect to a cold front.
v
(transitive) To exceed in storming.
n
(meteorology, informal) A powerful hurricane or other major weather disturbance, especially as produced by a combination of meteorological conditions.
n
(informal, meteorology) The jetstream and accompanying strong, moist airflow from the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands to the west coast of North America.
n
A large-scale cyclone located in the middle and upper troposphere and stratosphere that surround the polar highs and lie in the wake of the polar front.
adj
Having previously been a tropical storm.
adj
(meteorology) Behind a front
n
(obsolete) A storm, a tempest.
n
(Internet slang, derogatory) The British parenting-focused message board Mumsnet, viewed as a locus of gender-critical discourse and activism.
n
A wet microburst or macroburst; a downdraft produced by a thunderstorm.
n
(meteorology) An area of diminished precipitation on the lee side of mountains.
n
The spiralling bands of cloud and precipitation that make up the bulk of most tropical cyclones.
n
A person who seeks to induce rainfall through scientific methods, such as cloud seeding.
n
(meteorology) Part of the motion of a tropical cyclone, where its track becomes strongly poleward with an easterly component.
v
(of a storm) To change direction.
n
(informal, US, meteorology) A "tornado watch" notification, indicating that conditions might lead to a tornado though none has yet been sighted.
n
(meteorology) A tornado that is much longer than it is wide, and often sinuous, often opposed to a wedge tornado.
n
(meteorology) A type of powerful horizontal-axis atmospheric vortex generated by the interaction of strong winds with mountainous terrain.
n
(meteorology) A scale used to classify hurricanes by the intensity of their sustained winds, and thus the level of damage they might cause.
n
Alternative spelling of sandstorm [A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.]
n
A strong wind carrying clouds of sand and dust through the air.
adj
(meteorology, of precipitation) Affecting 30 percent to 50 percent of a forecast zone.
n
A thunderstorm, waterspout, tropical storm, or other storm over an ocean.
n
(meteorology) The mature phase of the extratropical cyclone life cycle.
n
(weather) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
n
(idiomatic, vulgar) Considerable backlash from the public.
n
(physics) the leading edge of a shock wave; the rapidly expanding interface between a pressure disturbance created, for example, by an explosion and the surrounding environment.
n
(meteorology) Synonym of fallstreak hole
n
An interval of good weather.
n
(meteorology) An illustration showing the various projected paths of a weather phenomenon (typically a tropical storm) created by different computer models.
n
(meteorology) A weather pattern where hot air from the Iberian Peninsula flows towards Northern Europe, often causing high temperatures and also severe thunderstorms.
n
(astronomy, meteorology) An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, in which an elve is immediately followed by a sprite.
n
An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
n
(meteorology) A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line.
n
(meteorology) A line of thunderstorms, hundreds of miles long, with squalls at the advancing edge.
n
(meteorology) A boundary between air masses that is neither advancing nor retreating
n
Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather.
v
To storm and rain heavily; synonym of rain cats and dogs.
n
One who finds and films storms, especially tornados.
n
A cone of canvas stretched on an elevated frame as a storm signal.
n
A canvas cylinder extended on a hoop, hoisted in conjunction with the storm cone as a storm signal.
v
To enter a place angrily.
n
Synonym of tempest in a teapot
n
Alternative form of storm in a teacup: synonym of tempest in a teapot [(UK) Synonym of tempest in a teapot]
n
(UK) Synonym of tempest in a teapot
n
Alternative form of storm in a teacup: synonym of tempest in a teapot [(UK) Synonym of tempest in a teapot]
n
A reinforced room within a building where the occupants can take shelter during severe storms.
n
Alternative spelling of stormtroop [Synonym of stormtrooper]
n
(idiomatic, proscribed) Destroyed by a storm.
n
(literary) The tumultuous noise made by a storm.
adj
Stormy, beset by a storm.
n
Obsolete spelling of storm [Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather.]
n
(informal) Something very loud and powerful, such as a song or a car.
n
A weather front associated with a storm.
adj
Abounding with storms; stormy.
n
The quality of being stormful.
adj
Obsolete spelling of stormy [Of or pertaining to storms.]
n
The path which a storm takes or is projected to take; stormtrack.
adj
Tossed by the wind in a storm.
adj
Archaic spelling of stormtossed. [Tossed by the wind in a storm.]
n
(weather, meteorology) The path traversed by the centre of a cyclonic storm.
adj
(meteorology) Relating to, or taking place during, a storm.
adj
Of or pertaining to storms.
n
(idiomatic, uncountable) Used to describe a period of troubles and difficulties, especially in terms of relationships
n
(climatology, meteorology) A type of tornado with a nearly cylindrical profile and relatively low height.
n
(astronomy) A phenomenon in which a magnetotail becomes swollen and unstable.
n
(meteorology) A rapidly-rotating storm system with some characteristics of a tropical cyclone, but also deriving some energy from baroclinic interactions.
n
(meteorology) A weather phenomenon where the polar vortex breaks down, causing a sudden temperature increase in the stratosphere of 50 kelvin or more.
n
(meteorology) A very large tornado outbreak
n
An exceptionally large form of the El Niño invasion of warm water into the surface of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru and Ecuador every four to seven years that causes changes in local and regional climate.
n
(meteorology) A severe thunderstorm with updrafts and downdrafts that are in near balance, allowing the storm to maintain itself for several hours. Supercells often produce large hail, powerful downpours, very strong winds and sometimes tornadoes.
n
(meteorology) A very strong hurricane.
n
A major storm (weather phenomenon).
n
(rare) A very severe tempest.
n
(rare) A giant, very severe tornado.
n
(US) A tornado measuring EF4 or above on the Enhanced Fujita scale.
n
An exceptionally large and powerful typhoon.
n
Abbreviation of thunderstorm. [A storm consisting of thunder and lightning produced by a cumulonimbus, usually accompanied with heavy rain, wind, and sometimes hail; and in rarer cases sleet, freezing rain, or snow.]
n
A storm, especially one with severe winds.
adj
(poetic) Battered by a storm or storms.
n
(historical) A medieval magician thought to have power over storms.
n
(meteorology) A rainy wind that blows into Central America from the southwest during the summer, often bringing stormy weather.
n
QAnon (conspiracy theory)
n
(informal) A large or dramatic thunderstorm.
n
(meteorology) A damaging wind, of the strength of a tornado, that has no rotational element
n
A thunderstorm accompanied by snow, rather than rain or hail.
n
A squall accompanied by thunder.
n
A storm consisting of thunder and lightning produced by a cumulonimbus, usually accompanied with heavy rain, wind, and sometimes hail; and in rarer cases sleet, freezing rain, or snow.
n
Obsolete form of tornado. [(meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.]
adj
Having the ability to produce a tornado.
n
(meteorology) A true tornado (associated with a thunderstorm) forming over a body of water.
n
(meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
n
(geography, meteorology) Area located in the middle of the USA, where tornadoes are particularly frequent and intense.
n
A collection of tornadoes generated by the same weather system, at around the same or in a short or continuous period of time.
n
(meteorology) An indication that a tornado has been sighted in a viewing area.
n
(meteorology) An indication that atmospheric conditions observed in and close to the watch area have created a significant risk for the development of severe thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes.
n
(meteorology, informal) A supercell thunderstorm whose radar signature resembles that of a hurricane, with a center free of precipitation; a landphoon.
n
(meteorology) The process by which a tornado forms
n
The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.
n
(meteorology) The point where two boundaries, such as a dry line, outflow boundary, or cold front, intersect.
n
(astronomy, meteorology) Optical ejections from the top of the electrically active core regions of thunderstorms that are red in color that seem to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward toward the cloud tops.
n
(in the narrow sense) typhoon, hurricane
n
(meteorology) organized low-pressure system of thunderclouds with closed surface circulation and maximum sustained winds of less than 34 knots (63 km) per hour.
n
A cyclone within the tropics, typically having its thunderclouds organized in a spiral shape with wind speeds on the surface between about 30 and 75 miles (60 - 120 km) per hour.
n
(meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
n
Alternative form of trowal [(meteorology) The projection on the Earth's surface of the trough of warm air aloft formed during the occlusion process of the depression.]
n
Initialism of tropical storm. [A cyclone within the tropics, typically having its thunderclouds organized in a spiral shape with wind speeds on the surface between about 30 and 75 miles (60 - 120 km) per hour.]
n
Obsolete form of typhoon. [A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane, which results in wind speeds of 64 knots (118 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia/Australia.]
n
Obsolete form of typhoon. [A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane, which results in wind speeds of 64 knots (118 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia/Australia.]
n
(obsolete) A violent whirlwind; a typhoon.
n
A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane, which results in wind speeds of 64 knots (118 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia/Australia.
n
On the Beaufort scale, a force-11 wind (56-63 knots)
n
(meteorology) The trailing edge of a retreating mass of cold air.
n
The natural cycle of evaporation of water from the oceans etc, and subsequent condensation and precipitation as rain and snow
n
Any water-based cyclone, usually much smaller than a tornado in magnitude.
n
A true tornado that passes over a body of water.
n
Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.
n
(meteorology) A large storm that evolves with little warning, usually as a result of a sudden drop in barometric pressure.
n
(meteorology) The boundary between two masses of air of different density and/or temperature
adj
Alternative form of weatherbound. [(often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.]
adj
Alternative spelling of weather-beaten [Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn or damaged by exposure to the weather or the outdoors, especially to severe weather.]
n
(meteorology) A wedge tornado.
n
(meteorology) A tornado that is at least as wide as it is tall, on the ground level as well as on the cloud base, looking very massive, often opposed to a rope tornado.
n
A tropical whirlwind, coming on without warning other than a small white cloud.
n
Alternative spelling of windstorm [A storm in which there are strong, violent winds but no precipitation.]
n
A cloud that is associated with wind, or is believed to presage windy weather.
n
(meteorology) The still-air temperature equivalent to a given combination of temperature and wind speed, as far as its cooling effect on exposed flesh is concerned
n
A storm in which there are strong, violent winds but no precipitation.
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