storms

Noun

storm (plural storms)

1. Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.
   • Near-synonyms: cyclone (broad sense), tempest

   Synonyms:

   cyclone, tempest

   1. (broadly) A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.
   2. (broadly) Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”).
   3. (Canada, Scotland, US, broadly, dated) A period of frosty and/or snowy weather.
   4. A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour; 10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103 and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale, known as a "violent storm").
2. (figuratively) A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).
   • a storm of bullets

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