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hailstorms

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plural of hailstorm

as in rainstorms

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With drinks in hand and dodging pop-up rainstorms Saturday afternoon, neighbors crowded on Ravenswood Avenue for an afternoon of beer tasting and community camaraderie.

— Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026
But it is expected to be better in time with cold fronts and rainstorms coming into the area on Saturday.

— Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of rainstorms

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Last year, cloudbursts, floods and landslides caused significant loss of life and property across India.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
The storm, which hit the New York area in October, 2012, unlocked billions of dollars in resilience spending, with hurricanes, rather than heat waves or cloudbursts, as the focus.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026

Definition of cloudbursts

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That role is currently empty, and Morales points to the severe snowstorms that took place in January and February as times when the city could have used better coordination.

— Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 16 July 2026
Last winter arrived early across parts of the United States, with November snowstorms, early blizzard warnings and even flakes reaching places like Florida before Thanksgiving.

— Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 14 July 2026

Definition of snowstorms

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Grandma, irrelevantly but convincingly, spoke of wars, blizzards and trekking barefoot to school.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Benji’s father is a volatile patriarch who grills during blizzards and hits him for failing to manfully respond to a classmate’s racist slight.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

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