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Barotropity ' or barotropicity – barotropic. Bear's cage – (tornado chaser slang) The precipitation that wraps around a mesocyclone, possibly hiding a tornado on the ground. Beaufort scale. Bernoulli's principle. Blob – Informal term coined by Erik N. Rasmussen for a descending reflectivity core (DRC). Boundary.
Severe thunderstorm warning (SVR) – A severe thunderstorm is indicated by Doppler weather radar or sighted by Skywarn spotters or other persons, such as local law enforcement. A severe thunderstorm contains large damaging hail of 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter or larger, and/or damaging winds of 58 mph (93 km/h) or greater.
Edouard. 1984 – a short-lived tropical storm in the Bay of Campeche and brushed Veracruz 's port. 1990 – a tropical storm that affected the Azores in August. 1996 – the most powerful storm that formed during the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season. 2002 – a typical tropical storm that crossed Florida west.
Jocelyn, the last storm to hit the UK, was named by Met Éireann after Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist who discovered the first pulsating radio stars, or pulsars, in 1967. Kathleen ...
Atlantic hurricane season 2023 has been busy so far, but forecasters expect more named storms before the year is up.
Storms beginning with the letter “I” are the most common tropical system names to become retired in the Atlantic Ocean, and Idalia, headed toward the Florida coast, has the potential to be ...
List of major snow and ice events in the United States. The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the ...
List of named storms. Storms are named for historical reasons to avoid confusion when communicating with the public, as more than one storm can exist at a time. Names are drawn in order from predetermined lists. For tropical cyclones, names are assigned when a system has one-, three-, or ten-minute winds of more than 65 km/h (40 mph).