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The main types of extreme weather include heat waves, cold waves and heavy precipitation or storm events, such as tropical cyclones. The effects of extreme weather events are economic costs, loss of human lives, droughts, floods, landslides. Severe weather is a particular type of extreme weather which poses risks to life and property.
Liquid forms of precipitation include rain and drizzle and dew. Rain or drizzle which freezes on contact with a surface within a subfreezing air mass gains the preceding adjective "freezing", becoming the known freezing rain or freezing drizzle. Slush is a mixture of both liquid and solid precipitation. Frozen forms of precipitation include ...
The May 2010 Tennessee floods were 1000-year [13] floods in Middle Tennessee, West Tennessee, south-central and western Kentucky and northern Mississippi as the result of torrential rains on May 1–2, 2010. Floods from these rains affected the area for several days afterwards, resulting in thirty-one deaths and widespread property damage ...
The city's system of bayous and reservoirs was built to drain heavy rains. But engineering initially designed nearly 100 years ago has struggled to keep up with the city’s growth and bigger storms.
A general 2-4 inches of rain will fall on the zone from northeastern Texas to western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma through Thursday. ... the effects from areas of torrential rain and flooding ...
However, when a blocking high is situated in the Tasman Sea it can cause torrential rains in eastern Australia, as in the cases of the 2021 and 2022 flood events. [14] A blocking high in the southern Tasman Sea directs low pressure systems and troughs towards eastern Australia, whereby providing rainfall on the east coast of Australia. [15]
The area was already well-known for heavy rains, but as the world warms, high pressure systems off the southern Brazilian coast are lingering longer, meaning more and more rain.
Severe weather is any dangerous meteorological phenomenon with the potential to cause damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life. [1][2][3] These vary depending on the latitude, altitude, topography, and atmospheric conditions. High winds, hail, excessive precipitation, and wildfires are forms and effects, as are thunderstorms ...