The Severe weather reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Severe weather

Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous.

Examples include:

• drought
• heat wave

• thunderstorm
• blizzard
• ice storm

• arctic cyclone
• cyclone (also called a hurricane, typhoon or windstorm)
• monsoon
• tornado (also referred to as a whirlwind or twister)

Phenomena caused by severe weather include:

• flood
• forest fire
• landslide, mudslide
• avalanche

See also extreme weather, meteorology.

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