Encyclopedia > Severe weather

Article Content

Severe weather

Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous.

Examples include:

drought
heat wave[?]

thunderstorm
blizzard
ice storm

wind storm
arctic cyclone
cyclone (hurricane, typhoon)
monsoon
tornado

Phenomena caused by severe weather include:

flood
forest fire
landslide,mudslide[?]
avalanche

Featured Article

Sakhalin

... La Pérouse (1787) and Krusenstern (1805). Both, however, regarded it as a peninsula, and were unaware of the existence of the Strait of Tartary, which was discovered in ...