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the sky throwing a tantrum so loud it splits the air into thunder.
means A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, bringing strong winds and usually rain, snow, thunder, or lightning — or, figuratively, any sudden outburst of fury or commotion.
from From Old English 'storm,' a word shared across the Germanic family — a cousin of Dutch 'storm' and German 'Sturm.' These likely trace back to a Proto-Germanic root tied to ideas of stirring, turmoil, and rushing motion, possibly connected to the same ancient source that gives us 'stir.' So a storm has always been, at heart, the weather all stirred up.
- lightning heat
- five times hotter than the sun's surface
- jupiter's rage
- one storm has raged for 350-plus years
- sound delay
- thunder lags because light beats sound easily
- energy scale
- a thunderstorm dwarfs an atomic bomb's power
- naming start
- hurricanes got human names only since 1953
hurricane katrina — august 2005, new orleans, caused ~1,833 deaths and $125 billion in damage
bhola cyclone — november 1970, bangladesh, deadliest tropical cyclone with ~300,000-500,000 deaths
great blizzard of 1888 — march 1888, northeastern united states, dumped 55 inches of snow in new york