hailstorms

plural of hailstorm

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hailstorms
Noun
  • Summer also brings on rainstorms with lightning and flash flooding.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Scientists across the globe agree that nations need to rapidly embrace renewable energy to stave off the worst effects of climate change, including extreme heat and drought; larger, more intense wildfires and supercharged hurricanes, typhoons and rainstorms that lead to catastrophic flooding.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Heavy rain is not uncommon in South Asia this time of year, but experts largely agree that the frequency and intensity of cloudbursts have increased in recent years, in part due to climate change.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Warmer air soaks up water like a sponge, and all this extra moisture can result in extreme rain and sudden downpours like cloudbursts, especially when that air meets the mountains.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The sound does much of the work in action sequences obscured by blinding snowstorms and flashing emergency lights, punctuated by creative acts of accidental self-harm that save our protagonists from certain death more than once.
    Katie Rife, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The publication forecast frequent snowstorms for New England, mixed rain and snow along the Atlantic coast, classic winter conditions for the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and North Central states, and significant mountain snow in the Pacific Northwest.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But conventional solar and wind installations are no match for temperatures that plummet below –40 degrees Celsius, winds of up to 300 kilometers per hour (kmh) and ferocious blizzards.
    You Xiaoying, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Dairy Queen has brought back 85-cent blizzards, at least for a limited time.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 13 June 2025
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“Hailstorms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hailstorms. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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