More snow squalls were expected throughout Wednesday evening as the storm system continued to track east, according to the National Weather Service. What is a snow squall? According to theNational Weather Service, a snow squall is "an intense short-lived burst of heavy snowfall that leads to ...
According toNewsweek, dirty rain is what happens when a major dust storm blows debris into the air. The heavy winds carry the particles into the atmosphere where they then mix with precipitation. Now, you have a mix of dirt and water ready make everyone you own outdoors a nice shade of l...
What is La Niña?According to NOAA, La Niña is the cooler phase of a weather pattern known as El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) with El Niño being the warmer phase. La Niña develops when the waters of the tropical Pacific Ocean are cooler. El Niño develops when the waters...
Flash flooding can occur if a dam or levee breaks. It can also happen within minutes or hours after heavy rainfall, especially if the storm is moving slowly. It’s more likely to affect areas where a lot of people live and work. That’s because the ground, which usually absorbs water, ...
Now, you have a mix of dirt and water ready make everyone you own outdoors a nice shade of light brown. Why You're Seeing More Dirty Rain The sometimes confusing aspect of dirty rain is the proximity of the initial dust storm to where the dirt ends up falling from the sky. ...
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A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall A windy, and sometimes violent, storm A very heavy downpour of rain Noun ▲ A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall “I was actually sheltered during a heavyrainstormin a stone manor house belonging to a buccaneer.” ...
This weeks challenge #187 is ‘water’. The Reeuwijkse Plassen is a lake area in the West of The Netherlands. Archive The Netherlands Shot with Nikon D7000, edited using Snapseed and Marksta.Click the picture for a bigger version Rate this: Feel free to share this post! Twitter Facebook...
Massachusetts residents are familiar with long, cold winters that can be filled with plenty of snow. Some winters Massachusetts gets storm after storm and it seems like there's no end in sight. In other years the Bay State has experienced mild, uneventful winters. ...
The roll cloud is not attached to its parent thunderstorm. It's associated with a gust front or outflow boundary out ahead of the thunderstorm. These clouds form whenwarm, moist air is lifted by rain-cooled air moving underneath it caused by the storm's downdraft or gust front. ...