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Types of Extreme Weather

Blizzard: Heavy Snow, ice, Cold Temperatures
Blizzard: Heavy Snow, ice, Cold Temperatures

While heavy snowfalls and severe cold often accompany blizzards, they are not required. Sometimes strong winds pick up snow that has already fallen, creating a ground blizzard. Sometimes strong winds pick up snow that has already fallen, creating a ground blizzard.

Derecho Storms
Derecho Storms

"People may sleep through warnings or not hear the storm coming until the last minute." As derechos unfold, it is important to keep a weather radio nearby to keep aware of severe storm warnings. At night, keep the volume turned up, so you can hear these crucial severe weather warnings.

Dust Storm: Strong Winds, Arid Conditions
Dust Storm: Strong Winds, Arid Conditions

Tornado: clouds, strong wind, rain, hail; Hurricane or cyclone: strong wind, heavy rain; Blizzard: heavy snow, ice, cold temperatures; Dust storm: strong winds, arid conditions; Flood: heavy rainfall; Hail storm: cold or warm temperatures, rain, ice; Ice storm: freezing rain; After students have completed the worksheet, ask: What patterns do you see? 4.

Flood: Heavy Rainfall
Flood: Heavy Rainfall

Extreme weather - heavy rainfall Heavy rainfall is one of the most frequent and widespread severe weather hazards to affect New Zealand. It is defined as rainfall greater than 100 mm in 24 hours.

source: niwa.co.nz
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Flooding
Flooding

Basic information about flooding, from the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory. Basic information about flooding, ... Severe Weather 101 Flood Basics

source: nssl.noaa.gov
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Hail Storm
Hail Storm

Severe Weather 101 Hail Basics. What we do: Read more about NSSL's hail research here. What is hail? Hail is a form of precipitation that occurs when updrafts in thunderstorms carry raindrops upward into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere where they freeze into balls of ice.

source: nssl.noaa.gov
Hail Storms
Hail Storms

Hail is a form of frozen precipitation that's created by strong thunderstorms with fast updrafts — air being pulled upward into a thunderstorm. It can cause serious damage, especially to cars, aircraft, glass-roofed structures and most notably, farmers' crops. Hail causes approximately $1 billion in property and crop damage each year.

Hurricane or Cyclone: Strong Wind, Heavy Rain
Hurricane or Cyclone: Strong Wind, Heavy Rain

"Very heavy rainfall occurring across Western Yemen is likely to promote cholera infection rates in the weeks ahead," the Met Office added. Sagar is the third hurricane-strength cyclone in the Southern Yemen in recent years.

Hurricanes
Hurricanes

Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, unpredictable,severe or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past. Often, extreme events are based on a location’s recorded weather history and defined as lying in the most unusual ten percent.

Ice Storm: Freezing Rain
Ice Storm: Freezing Rain

If strong, gusty winds accompany freezing rain, the chance for damage increases due to the added stress on trees and power lines. Downed trees can block roads, making driving even more dangerous. 3. Ice Storms and Their Impacts Can Last For Days. Depending on the severity of the ice storm and the weather pattern, impacts can persist for days.

source: weather.com
Lightning
Lightning

Severe Weather 101 Lightning Basics. What we do: Read more about NSSL's lightning research here. What is lightning? Lightning is a giant spark of electricity in the atmosphere between clouds, the air, or the ground.

source: nssl.noaa.gov
Snow Storms
Snow Storms

The United States is already experiencing more intense rain and snow storms and other extreme weather due to global warming. ... Powerful rain and snow storms ...

source: ucsusa.org
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms

This is issued by the National Weather Service when conditions are favorable for the development of severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. A severe thunderstorm by definition is a thunderstorm that produces one inch hail or larger in diameter and/or winds equal or exceed 58 miles an hour.

source: weather.gov
Tornado: Clouds, Strong Wind, Rain, Hail
Tornado: Clouds, Strong Wind, Rain, Hail

Thunderstorm: rain, clouds, lightning, thunder, wind; Tornado: clouds, strong wind, rain, hail; Hurricane or cyclone: strong wind, heavy rain; Blizzard: heavy snow, ice, cold temperatures; Dust storm: strong winds, arid conditions; Flood: heavy rainfall; Hail storm: cold or warm temperatures, rain, ice; Ice storm: freezing rain; 4. Discuss the ingredients of extreme weather events.