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stormy

[stawr-mee] / ˈstɔr mi /


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A stormy season is forecast for the UK with the chances of wet and windy weather higher than normal, particularly from November.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Still, experts say El Niño does tilt the odds for a rainier-than-normal winter for Southern California, and that officials across the state should be preparing for the prospect of a stormy winter.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Relations between Zelensky and his US counterpart Donald Trump have been strained and, at times, stormy.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

Somewhere in the stormy waters off Greenland, a bright yellow robotic probe, known as an Argo float, is sinking silently beneath the waves.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Then the stormy North Atlantic proved that all the other gales had been mere child’s play.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

Due to stormier weather this year, large-scale algal blooms have not yet formed on Lough Neagh to the same extent as the previous three summers.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

According to NOAA, stormier weather is generally more likely in the southern United States during an El Niño.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

In this and other ways I am agreeably disposed to this stronger and stormier Tiguan.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 2026

“We can’t say for sure it’s definitely stormier but, what we can say, is the storms we are having in northwest Europe are getting more severe,” says Bricheno.

From National Geographic Dec. 15, 2023

And in addition to classes, in weather that grew colder and stormier every day, the pilots were given flight tests to decide which aircraft they’d be best suited for.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Macquarie Island is only a tiny piece of land surrounded by the world's stormiest ocean.

From Science Daily May 14, 2026

A Pineapple Express storm could deliver one of Southern California’s stormiest Christmases in recent memory.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 22, 2025

Between October 2023 and March 2024, for example, the amount of rainfall on the stormiest days in the UK increased by an estimated 20% on average due to climate change.

From BBC Dec. 16, 2024

Despite all this, Bricheno notes that the North Sea is far from the stormiest body of water in the world.

From National Geographic Dec. 15, 2023

Those girls were blessed with the ability to sleep through the stormiest of sidewinders.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson




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