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Blood rain; Cold drop (Spanish: gota fría; archaic as a meteorological term), colloquially, any high impact rainfall event along the Mediterranean coast of Spain; Drought, a prolonged water supply shortage, often caused by persistent lack of, or much reduced, rainfall; Floods. Flash flood; Rainstorm; Red rain in Kerala (for related phenomena ...
The clouds that temporarily stole the spotlight from the Great American Eclipse will likely linger, producing severe rain showers and thunderstorms in Austin through Tuesday, at the very least.
In Canada, a severe thunderstorm is defined as having wind gusts of greater than 90 km/h (56 mph), hail with a diameter of greater than two centimetres (0.79 in), rainfall rates of greater than 50 millimetres (2.0 in) in one hour or greater than 75 millimetres (3.0 in) in three hours, or tornadoes. [14]
A hook echo is a pendant or hook-shaped weather radar signature as part of some supercell thunderstorms. It is found in the lower portions of a storm as air and precipitation flow into a mesocyclone, resulting in a curved feature of reflectivity. The echo is produced by rain, hail, or debris being wrapped around the supercell. [1]
Get the Boydton, VA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
These watches are issued for large areas by the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, and are usually valid for five to eight hours. [3] [10] Particularly dangerous situation severe thunderstorm watch SVA – Conditions are favorable for the development of severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. Isolated tornadoes are ...
Healdsburg recorded 17.75 inches while Santa Rosa set a 72-hour rainfall record with 12.68 inches. The foot of rain in Santa Rosa overwhelmed drainage systems and local creeks and rivers.
Weather: Distant thunder, or loud sounds from wind damage. Atmospheric ducting of distant thunder or other loud sounds from far off. ( "Ducting" is enhanced propagation of sound or radio waves over long distances, through the troposphere , by wave travel that's constrained between distinct air layers .) [ 9 ]