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"STORMS" is a plural of: storm. |
Date "STORMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Literature | Storms The inhabitants of Comacchio, a town in Central Italy, between the two branches of the Po, rejoice in storms because then the fish are driven into their marshes. "Whose townsmen loathe the lazy calm's repose, And pray that stormy waves may lash the beach." Rose's Orlando Furioso, ii. 41. Cape of Storms. So Bartholomew Diaz named the south cape of Africa in 1486, but King John II. changed it into the Cape of Good Hope. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A storm is a kind of severe weather marked by hard wind (a wind storm), or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere (as in a dust storm, snowstorm, etc). A storm is usually defined as wind measuring 10 or higher on the Beaufort scale, meaning a wind speed of 89 kilometers per hour (55 miles per hour) or more.List of historical storms --see severe weather, extreme weather.
See also: Wiktionary definition of storm, meteorology.
Operation Storm was a military operation of the Croatian army against the Krajina Serbs in 1995.
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A thunderstorm is a form of severe weather characterized by the presence of lightning and its attendant thunder. It is often accompanied by copious rainfall.
Thunderstorms form when three conditions are present: sufficient moisture accumulated in the lower atmosphere, a significant fall in air temperature with increasing height, and a force (such as the pressure differential of a cold front) that will push the moisture into the low-temperature upper regions. A given cell of a thunderstorm typically goes through three stages: the cumulus stage, the mature stage, and the dissipation stage.
In the cumulus stage of a thunderstorm cell, masses of moisture are pushed upwards; the moisture rapidly cools into liquid drops of water vapor, which appears as cumulus clouds. The masses of water vapor are warmer than the surrounding air, and therefore will tend to rise in an updraft due to the process of convection. This creates a low-pressure zone beneath the forming thunderstorm. In a typical thunderstorm, some 5E8kg of water vapor are lifted and the amount of energy released when this condenses is about equal to the energy used by a city (US-2002) of 100,000 over a month.
In the mature stage, the accumulated water vapor has become large, with the top layer often spreading out into an anvil formation. The resulting cloud is called cumulonimbus. The water vapor will coalesce into heavy droplets and ice particles, which will fall onto the area below as rain. If temperatures in the upper atmosphere are cold enough, some of these droplets may actually form into masses of ice and fall as hail. While updrafts are still present, the falling rain creates downdrafts as well. The presence of both updrafts and downdrafts during this stage can cause considerable internal turbulence in the storm system, which sometimes manifests as strong winds. severe lightning, and even tornadoes.
Finally, in the dissipation stage, updraft conditions no longer exist, and the storm is characterized largely by weak downdrafts. Because most of the moisture has precipitated out as rain or ice (precipitation) there is no longer sufficient moisture in the lower air to sustain the cycle.
Thunderstorms can be generally classed into three categories, largely in order of increasing severity: single cells, multicellular storms, and supercells. Largely the type of storm depends on the relative wind conditions at different layers of the atmosphere (shear). The single cell thunderstorm is the typical three-stage situation as described above, usually lasting about 30 minutes from the start of significant precipitation.
In a multicellular storm, several of these thunderstorm cells merge into a larger system. The cloud becomes divided into updraft and downdraft regions separated by a gust front. The gust front may extend for several miles ahead of the storm, bringing with it increases in wind speed and atmospheric pressure, decreases in temperature, and shifts in wind direction. The storm itself will have different portions sequentually going through the various thunderstorm stages.
The supercell is the most dangerous form of storm system, as it may produce violent gusts of wind, large hail, and more damaging tornadoes. It is caused when updrafts through the forming cumulonimbus cloud are twisted to proceed along the anvil. It possesses a mesocyclone, the results of which are strong vertical shear, differences in wind speed at different layers and separate updraft and downdraft regions, with the effect being that the storm will both last longer and continue to grow larger and more dangerous.
Geographic features (such as mountain ranges) or atmospheric conditions (such as extended warm or cold fronts) may create lines of thunderstorms which move across the landscape. A special case of this is the squall line, which forms along the warm sector of a cyclone. When conditions are right, several multicell systems may merge into large "thunderstorm convective complexes" stretching for hundreds of miles; in the presence of cyclones or upper-level troughs, even larger clusters of thunderstorms may cover thousands of miles.
See also: hurricane, weather, lightning
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Synonyms: STORMSSynonyms: Blizzards, Snowstorms, Thunderstorms, Winds. (additional references) |
Crosswords: STORMS |
| English words defined with "STORMS": Adad, Anticyclonic storm ♦ buffeted ♦ Cape Hatteras ♦ dust bowl ♦ Flying Dutchman ♦ Hydrometeorological, Hydrometeorology ♦ rage, Ramman ♦ Shamash, storm, Storm-beat, Stormful, Stormless, stormproof, storm-tossed, stormy ♦ tempest, tempest-swept, tempest-tossed, tempest-tost ♦ wash out, Weather-driven. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STORMS": airplane dispatcher, Astagoras, Auroral oval ♦ Bantam ♦ cable dispatcher, Cape of Storms, Coastal Flooding, Cock apace, Crystal ♦ GEOPHYSICAL EVENTS ♦ HEAT STORM, helicopter dispatcher, HP Storm or HP Supercell, hurricanes ♦ LEWP, line noise, Luggie ♦ Magnetic Storms and Substorms, Mont St. Michel ♦ NCAR, NEPTUNE, NSSL ♦ Picnic, Pulse Storm ♦ SELS, Space weather, Splitting Storm, Stylites, SUDDEN IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE ♦ Tail-end Charlie, tropical storm ♦ Water-gall, wave spectrum. (references) |
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Screenplays | All I know is, on the day your plane was to leave, if I had the power, I would turn the winds around, I would roll in the fog, I would bring in storms, I would change the polarity of the earth so compasses couldn't work, so your plane couldn't take off. (L.A. Story; writing credit: Steve Martin.) We've had a lot of success so far. We know what dangers to expect out there from black suns, neutron storms, radiation and the like, but if we think we know everything that goes on out there, we're making a terrible mistake (Space: 1999; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) Great storms announce themselves with a single breeze, and a single random spark can ignite the fires of rebellion (Ladyhawke; writing credit: Edward Khmara) | |
Lyrics | Calm the storms that drench my eyes (Flood; performing artist: Jars Of Clay) Sara, Sara, storms are brewing in your eyes (Sara; performing artist: Starship) But too many storms have come and gone (Waterfalls; performing artist: TLC) But i will run through storms with you (Story in a Dream; performing artist: Train) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Storms of August (1988) Lethal Lightning Super Storms (1985) Sea of Storms (1976) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Bean with Tools on the Ocean of Storms. Credit: NASA. |  | Bean Samples The Ocean of Storms. Credit: NASA. |
 | Frosty white water ice clouds and swirling orange dust storms above a vivid rusty landscape ... Credit: NASA. |  | East end of Thatch Cay, U. S. Virgin Islands Old derelict, victim of storms past. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Mouth of a tidal pond has been closed up by a series of storms and high tides. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Comparison of Hurricanes Frances and Gloria. Wind speed and pressure plotted for transects run through the eye of both storms. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Gulfstream IV in Alaska on winter storms project. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | The National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) research facility with radar dome in the background. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |
 | NSSL's second Doppler Weather Radar, 15 miles west of Oklahoma City. Researchers used this radar and the Norman Doppler radar to study thunderstorms. Doppler radar gave better estimates of winds within storms than earlier radars. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |  | Figures 1, 2, and 3 are the barometer records of various storms encountered by the HIRONDELLE in 1887. Figure 4 is a record of barometric pressure during periods of hazy mist and clearing. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 84. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Distant Storms" by Tim Spence Commentary: "Distant storms, from Pike's Peak in Colorado Springs, CO." | "After the Rain 1" by Stephanie Summerfield Commentary: "After the storms cleared up, the sun came out." |
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Epicurus | Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. |
George Herbert | Storms make the oak grow deeper roots. |
Grover Cleveland | The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. |
Hannah More | Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer. |
Louisa May Alcott | I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. |
Thomas Fuller | Vows are made in storms and forgotten in calm weather. |
Thomas Jefferson | A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. |
William Mcfee | It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1937) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Storms accompanied by thunder and lightning were frequent during this time |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I was never cast away nor distressed in any weather, though I encountered some severe storms. |
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Health | Inhalation of airborne arthroconidia after disturbance of contaminated soil by humans or natural disasters (e.g., dust storms and earthquakes). (references) | |
Economic History | Kuwait | Extremely high temperatures, excessive seasonal humidity, and frequent summer dust storms make Kuwait an excellent market for air conditioning and refrigeration equipment and services. (references) |
Cape Verde | The average precipitation per year in Praia is 24 centimeters (9.5 in.). During the winter, storms blowing from the Sahara sometimes cloud the sky, but sunny days are the norm year round. (references) | |
Moldova | This was despite a prolonged drought and ice storms in November, 2000. Furthermore, the Moldovan government is optimistic and expects a five-percent GDP growth in 2001. The economy has so far been going uphill, with industrial output, retail, construction, services and most notably transportation showing signs of an increase in the first quarter of 2001. Moreover, experts forecast that in 2001 the grain crops will be almost double the level of 2000. (references) | |
Travel | Kuwait | U.S. business visitors to Kuwait encounter few health problems apart from coping with the extreme heat and dust storms during the summer months. (references) |
Kenya | Severe storms and heavy rains in late 1997 and early 1998 led to extensive flooding and critical damage to roads and bridges, making travel and communications difficult in many parts of the country. (references) | |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | We know the turbulence that lies below, and the storms that are beyond the horizon this year. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Last year's heat waves, floods and storms are but a hint of what future generations may endure if we do not act now. |
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| "STORMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 92.09% of the time. "STORMS" is used about 417 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 92.09% | 384 | 14,347 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 6% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.92% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 417 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "STORMS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Storms | Last name | 2,000 | 5,384 |
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Ending with "STORMS": dust-storms, fire-storms, noise-storms, snow-storms, thunder-storms. | |
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| Language | Translations for "STORMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | erstürmt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ormsstay.(various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "STORMS": barnstorms, brainstorms, firestorms, hailstorms, rainstorms, sandstorms, snowstorms, thunderstorms, windstorms. (additional references) | |
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"STORMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schorm, Storma, stormr, storys, strom, sturm. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STORMS" (pronounced stô"rmz) |
| 4 | -ô" r m z | conforms, dorms, forms, informs, norms, outperforms, performs, reforms, swarms, transforms, warms. |
| 3 | -r m z | alarms, arms, charms, farms, firearms, harms, landforms, platforms, rainstorms, sandstorms, snowstorms, thunderstorms, uniforms. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: morts, mosts, sorts, storm. | |
-2 letters: mors, mort, moss, most, mots, orts, roms, rots, sort, sots, toms, tors, toss. | |
-3 letters: mor, mos, mot, oms, ors, ort, rom, rot, som, sos, sot, tom, tor. | |
-4 letters: mo, om, or, os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: missort. | |
+2 letters: amorists, erotisms, maestros, missorts, mobsters, monsters, mortises, nostrums, oestrums, ostmarks, rostrums, scrotums, smothers, somerset, stardoms, stompers, strumose, strumous, tourisms, transoms, trisomes, tropisms, tsardoms. | |
+3 letters: acrotisms, amortises, angstroms, atomisers, atropisms, costumers, customers, doomsters, ergotisms, foremasts, humorists, imposters, impostors, isotherms, marmosets, mesotrons, misroutes, missorted, misthrows, mistutors, moistures, molesters, monsteras, monstrous, moralists, mortisers, motocross, motorises, motorists, motorless, ostracism, outsmarts, pastromis, postforms, postmarks, resmooths, restrooms, robotisms, sandstorm, smoothers, snowstorm, somersets, sportsman, sportsmen, sternmost, stormiest, surmounts, thermoses, trisomics, trisomies, troilisms. | |
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