windstorms

noun

plural of windstorm
as in tornadoes

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  1. tornadoes
  2. gales
  3. blows
  4. gusts
  5. winds
  6. tempests
  7. squalls
Noun
  • The Storm Prediction Center has placed portions of Missouri and surrounding states under a Slight Risk for severe thunderstorms, warning that storms may produce damaging wind gusts, large hail and a few tornadoes.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 31 July 2026
  • Heat is the deadliest type of extreme weather in the US, with a higher annual average death toll than tornadoes, hurricanes and lightning combined, National Weather Service statistics show.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
Definition of tornadoes
Noun
  • The weather in Wales was terrible, with snow and freezing temperatures and Arctic gales.
    — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Out in the ferocious gales of the North Sea, on the overcrowded routes of the Irish Sea and the English Channel, and off to the islands’ west, the wide Atlantic herself.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025
Definition of gales
Noun
  • After the dustups, the offense went from taking blows from the defense to delivering some of its own.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2026
  • During the less than a minute-long elevator ride, the duo trading blows, according to the video.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Definition of blows
Noun
  • Winds are expected to be southwest to west 10 to 20 mph with gusts 30 to 40 mph both Friday and Saturday afternoon and evening.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026
  • Higher gusts in thunderstorms could cause isolated power outages.
    — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Definition of gusts
Noun
  • This is known as a downburst, or straight-line winds, and the phenomenon can generate winds as strong as a tornado.
    — Mark Price July 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
  • At one point the Gironde blaze created a black thundercloud, electrified and lit from within, that generated lightning, violent winds and new fires beyond the original front.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
Definition of winds
Noun
  • In Homer’s Odyssey, the Greek hero Odysseus must overcome tempests, temptations, mythical monsters, and divine wrath to sail home to the island of Ithaca after the Trojan War.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
  • One version of the nation’s history anchors itself in the efforts to navigate those tempests, to better the imperfect tools bequeathed to us by imperfect men.
    — Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Definition of tempests
Noun
  • Cold rain fell in an endless drizzle, broken only by harder squalls.
    — Fred Bear, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2026
  • The latter, in particular, braids the bittersweet melodies of anorak-sporting vintage twee with ear-bleeding country-grunge that evokes Meat Puppets’ heaviest squalls.
    — Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 1 May 2026
Definition of squalls
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