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Scientists can more granularly study homegrown tempests with storm-chasing aircraft and Earth-orbiting satellites.
JUPITER’S GREAT RED SPOT IS WHIRLING FASTER THAN EVERHANNAH SEOSEPTEMBER 29, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE
Her work points at a sort of “cloud greenhouse effect” in which the infrared radiation reflected as the sun warms the Earth gets trapped under nascent storms, which makes stronger tempests build more quickly.
THE BRILLIANT 10: THE MOST INNOVATIVE UP-AND-COMING MINDS IN SCIENCEBILL GOURGEYSEPTEMBER 20, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE
It includes old-school observations by unlucky souls who directly observed the tempests as well as remote sensing data from the modern satellite era.
HURRICANES MAY NOT BE BECOMING MORE FREQUENT, BUT THEY’RE STILL MORE DANGEROUSCAROLYN GRAMLINGJULY 13, 2021SCIENCE NEWS
Perhaps it wasn’t pairs of electrons that were forming, but tempests of electrons known as skyrmions.
A NEW TWIST REVEALS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY’S SECRETSCHARLIE WOODMARCH 16, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINE
Now that the 2021 filing season has opened, people should be prepared for a tempest of tax issues, Collins said.
TAX SEASON 2021: A TORNADO IS COMINGMICHELLE SINGLETARYFEBRUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POST
In truth, M. de Biancourt's goodness and prudence seemed much shaken by this tempest of human passions.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUS
What might be of a disturbing nature in the old farmhouse could not, she thought, be as fearsome as the approaching tempest.
THE CAMPFIRE GIRLS OF ROSELAWNMARGARET PENROSE
And Isabel dropped her head into her arms and burst into a wild tempest of tears, like a child that has had its first whipping.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
The Republic had proved an utter failure, and France was but a tempest-tossed ocean of anarchy.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
I round the threshold wandering here,Vainly the tempest and the rain invoke,That they may keep my lady prisoner.
THE POEMS OF GIACOMO LEOPARDIGIACOMO LEOPARDI
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO TEMPEST

  • ado
  • agitation
  • bustle
  • clatter
  • daze
  • dither
  • ferment
  • flurry
  • fluster
  • flutter
  • furor
  • fuss
  • hubbub
  • hurly-burly
  • hurry
  • merry-go-round
  • moil
  • pother
  • round
  • ruction
  • rush
  • series
  • spin
  • stir
  • storm
  • succession
  • tempest
  • tumult
  • turbulence
  • uproar
  • whirlwind
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