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  2. Haboob - Wikipedia

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    During thunderstorm formation, winds move in a direction opposite to the storm's travel, and they move from all directions into the thunderstorm. When the storm collapses and begins to release precipitation, wind directions reverse, gusting outward from the storm and generally gusting the strongest in the direction of the storm's travel.

  3. Dust storm - Wikipedia

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    The Sahara desert is a key source of dust storms, particularly the Bodélé Depression [7] and an area covering the confluence of Mauritania, Mali, and Algeria. [8] Sahara dust is frequently emitted into the Mediterranean atmosphere and transported by the winds sometimes as far north as central Europe and Great Britain.

  4. Thunderstorm - Wikipedia

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    Thunderstorm asthma is the triggering of an asthma attack by environmental conditions directly caused by a local thunderstorm. During a thunderstorm, pollen grains can absorb moisture and then burst into much smaller fragments with these fragments being easily dispersed by wind.

  5. Extreme weather - Wikipedia

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    A tornado is an example of an extreme weather event. This tornado struck Anadarko, Oklahoma during a tornado outbreak in 1999.. Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past.

  6. Dry thunderstorm - Wikipedia

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    A dry thunderstorm is a thunderstorm that produces thunder and lightning, but where all or most of its precipitation evaporates before reaching the ground. [1] Dry lightning refers to lightning strikes occurring in this situation. Both are so common in the American West that they are sometimes used interchangeably. [2]

  7. 78 Facts For Those Who Are Curious About The World (New ... - AOL

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    Image credits: notcommonfacts Another interesting fact shared by the Not Common Facts page was that the U.S. is no longer among the 20 happiest countries in the world. That's according to the ...

  8. Rain of animals - Wikipedia

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    A rain of animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky. Such occurrences have been reported in many countries throughout history, an example being Lluvia de peces , a phenomenon that has occurred many times in Honduras . [ 1 ]

  9. List of natural phenomena - Wikipedia

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    A circumzenithal arc over Grand Forks, North Dakota The Belt of Venus over Paranal Observatory atop Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile [3] Crepuscular rays at sunrise in Malibu, California. Atmospheric optical phenomena include: Afterglow; Airglow; Alexander's band, the dark region between the two bows of a double rainbow ...