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anticyclone |
a weather system with high atmospheric pressure at its center, around which air slowly circulates in a clockwise (northern hemisphere) or counterclockwise (southern hemisphere) direction. Anticyclones are associated with calm, fine weather. |
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blizzard |
severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility |
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cyclone |
a system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure, with a counterclockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation; a depression. |
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heat wave |
a prolonged period of abnormally hot weather. |
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hurricane |
storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean. |
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lake effect snow |
snow falling on the lee side of a lake, generated by cold dry air passing over warmer water, especially in the Great Lakes region. |
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lightning |
equipment in a home, workplace, studio, theater, or street for producing light |
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mid latitude cyclone |
These types of cyclones are defined as synoptic scale low pressure weather systems that occur in the middle latitudes of the Earth (outside the tropics) not having tropical characteristics, and are connected with fronts and horizontal gradients in temperature and dew point otherwise known as "baroclinic zones". |
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nor'easter |
A nor'easter (also northeaster; see below) is a macro-scale storm along the upper East Coast of the United States and Atlantic Canada; it gets its name from the direction the wind is coming in from the storm. The wind on land, therefore, will generally blow from the northeast |
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thunder |
a loud rumbling or crashing noise heard after a lightning flash due to the expansion of rapidly heated air. |
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Thunder Storm |
a storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail. |
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tornado |
a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system. |
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tropical clone |
storm with low pressure |
