Storm

thumb|upright=1.5|Strokes of cloud-to-ground lightning strike the Mediterranean Sea off of Port-la-Nouvelle in southern France.

A tornado, also known as a twister, is a rapidly rotating column of air that extends vertically from the surface of the Earth to the base of a cumulonimbus or cumulus cloud. Tornadoes are often (but not always) visible in the form of a condensation funnel originating from the cloud base, with a cloud of rotating debris and dust close to the ground. Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than , are about across, and travel several kilometers (a few miles) before dissipating. The most extreme tornadoes can attain wind speeds of more than , can be more than in diameter, and can stay on the ground f

rapidly rotating storm system that forms in the tropics

thumb|A large hailstone, about in diameter

thumb|A storm seen at the Baltic Sea near the island of [[Öland, Sweden.]]

upright=1.35|thumb|Lightning from a thunderstorm near Pritzerbe, Germany

A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds and low visibility, lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically at least three or four hours. A ground blizzard is a weather condition where snow that has already fallen is being blown by wind. Blizzards can have an immense size and usually stretch to hundreds or thousands of kilometres.

thumb|upright=1.35|Cloudburst in Iceland

thumb|A low precipitation supercell in rural Northeast Colorado. A supercell is a thunderstorm characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone, a deep, persistently rotating updraft. Due to this, these storms are sometimes referred to as rotating thunderstorms. Of the four main classifications of thunderstormssupercell, squall line, multi-cell, and single-cellsupercells are the least common overall and have the potential to be the most severe. Supercells are often isolated from other thunderstorms, and can dominate the local weather up to away. They tend to last 2–4 hours, but under highly favo

event in which the varieties of precipitation are formed that only occur at low temperatures

thumb|right|A downburst seen in Phoenix, Arizona. 325px|thumb|Illustration of a microburst at an airport. The air moves in a downward motion until it hits the surface. It then spreads outward in all directions. The wind regime in a microburst is opposite to that of a tornado.

thumb|A video recorded nearing the end of a squall, caused by a dry microburst (strong downdraft); after this video was shot, it started raining. A squall is a sudden, sharp increase in wind speed lasting minutes, as opposed to a wind gust, which lasts for only seconds. They are usually associated with active weather, such as rain showers, thunderstorms, or heavy snow. Squalls refer to the increase of the sustained winds over that time interval, as there may be higher gusts during a squall event. They usually occur in a region of strong sinking air or cooling in the mid-atmosphere. These force

thumb|right|A haboob moves across the Llano Estacado toward [[Yellow House Canyon, near the residential community of Ransom Canyon, Texas (2009)]]

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thumb|right|Timelapse video of a derecho approaching and eventually passing over an airport in South Dakota, United States A derecho (, from , 'straight') is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving complex of severe thunderstorms referred to as a mesoscale convective system.

thunderstorm with little or no precipitation

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mesoscale convective system shaped like a ancher's bow

type of storm

South-West Indian Ocean cyclone in 2022

thunderstorm that is generally weak and usually not severe.

thumb|right|Band of thunderstorms seen on a weather radar display A rainband is a cloud and precipitation structure associated with an area of rainfall which is significantly elongated. Rainbands in tropical cyclones can be either stratiform or convective and are curved in shape. They consist of showers and thunderstorms, and along with the eyewall and the eye, they make up a tropical cyclone. The extent of rainbands around a tropical cyclone can help determine the cyclone's intensity.

A spiral, geomagnetic storm

Origin of an extratropical cyclone

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meteorological phenomenon

Dutch cycling time trial Championships, held by storm

Pacific typhoon in 2019

smallest unit of a storm producing system