thunderstorm
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A thunderstorm persisted for nearly two hours, bringing heavy rain and frequent lightning.
From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026
Lightning is one of the biggest risks, but it is not only the natural lightning from a thunderstorm - or cumulonimbus cloud - that forecasters will be concerned about.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 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
One of the petitioners, an infamous do-gooder of uncertain sanity named Warner Mifflin, had actually acknowledged that his antislavery vision had come to him after he was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing thunderstorm
Physical Geography - Introductory
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