thunderstorm
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He said the thunderstorm activity on Wednesday night "was poorly captured in forecast modelling albeit the latent risk was sufficiently high to warrant a Met Office yellow warning issued into that night".
From BBC • May 29, 2026
A thunderstorm persisted for nearly two hours, bringing heavy rain and frequent lightning.
From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026
One does wonder how the actors fishing while swapping such insipid dialogue don’t cross their leaders and spend most of the time untangling, before flying their plane into the middle of a Rocky Mountain thunderstorm.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Another bushfire near the small town of Walwa crackled with lightning as it radiated enough heat to form a localised thunderstorm, fire authorities said.
From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026
I squeezed my pillow around my head like a child in a thunderstorm.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing thunderstorm
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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Earth Science - Middle School
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