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Houston, which saw heavy bands of rain that prompted flight delays on Christmas Eve, faced an enhanced risk of thunderstorms on Thursday, according to AccuWeather. The storms could persist in the ...
After hitting the Southeast on Saturday with thunderstorms and tornadoes, heavy rain and storm potential is set to shift to the East Coast on Sunday, the weather service said.
The overall extent of severe weather on Sunday may be most impressive-perhaps reaching a dozen or more states. Storms containing torrential downpours and gusty winds will likely first affect ...
A weekslong stretch of dry weather across Texas and the northern Gulf Coast is coming to an end this week as the region faces the threat of rounds of torrential rain and thunderstorms over the ...
A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning [1] and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder. [2] Relatively weak thunderstorms are sometimes called thundershowers. [3] Thunderstorms occur in a type of cloud known as a cumulonimbus. [4]
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain or squalls.
A series of storms continually moving over the same area, dumping heavy rains, can cause flash flooding. [1] Each storm usually produces heavy rain, and after a significant amount of rain falls from the storms which have moved over the same area, flooding occurs.
The storms also brought heavy rain to areas that don’t need it. Between 3 and 6 inches of rain fell along the Gulf Coast in a stripe from East Texas to Mississippi and more heavy rain is ...