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sandstorm

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Definition of sandstorm

as in rainstorm

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Recent Examples of sandstorm Durabook has unveiled the Z14I-HG, a fully rugged mobile workstation packing 682 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of AI power inside a magnesium-alloy shell built to survive everything from minus 29 °C (-20 °F) frozen tundra to plus 63 °C (145 °F) desert heat and direct sandstorm exposure. — Omar Kardoudi march 31, New Atlas, 31 Mar. 2026 After a series of mishaps, including a sandstorm, mechanical problems and a helicopter collision, the operation was aborted. — Sheena Samu, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026 Earlier this month, at a drag strip in Abu Dhabi, a Chinese electric sedan faced one of Ferrari’s most extreme road cars under slippery conditions left behind by a desert sandstorm. — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 13 Jan. 2026 The film blends documentary and fiction to tell the dramatic and heartrending story of Mongolian herders Davaasuren Dagvasuren and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg’s difficult decision to leave their homelands after the arrival of a powerful and destructive sandstorm. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sandstorm

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In Ohio, winds were so strong that an Ohio Department of Transportation traffic camera captured a car being lifted and tossed upside down on Interstate 71 in Columbus during a torrential rainstorm on Tuesday morning.

— Michelle Simmons, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Officials noted that the rainstorm could help dampen the spread of the fire but also brings strong winds that could further elevate fire risk.

— Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of rainstorm

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The 70-room Hotel Keflavík in Iceland's Reykjanesbaer municipality was fully booked with guests hoping to see around one minute and 45 seconds of totality — weather permitting.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Ash would spread much farther across the United States, although its depth would vary with wind and weather.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026

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But no reasonable parent mistakes that for true readiness to handle rush-hour traffic in a thunderstorm.

— David Etue, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
It was instead caused by cold air plummeting to the ground from the upper levels of a passing thunderstorm, experts says.

— Mark Price July 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026

Definition of thunderstorm

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However, premiums across much of South Florida remain materially higher than national averages, particularly for properties requiring windstorm and flood coverage.

— Malana VanTyker, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
All the framing members were stacked on top of one another, and the carpenter had even installed metal connectors to ensure the roof rafters would not get pulled up and off the walls in a windstorm.

— Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of windstorm

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Tomoyuki Sugano allowed a run over 6 2/3 innings to win for the seventh time in his last eight starts and the Colorado Rockies beat the Kansas City Royals 3-1 on Friday night after a hailstorm delayed the start an hour.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
What started as a typical Monday afternoon at Hiwan Golf Club in Evergreen quickly turned into a scramble for cover when a hailstorm brought golf ball-sized hail to the course.

— Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 9 June 2026

Definition of hailstorm

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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 cloudburst

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In a sudden forecast turnabout, metro Detroit went from April thundershowers and tornado warnings one day to a warm, sunny day the next, with temperatures in the upcoming week expected to reach the 70s.

— Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Apr. 2023
Low pressure at both the upper level of the atmosphere and near the surface keep the chance of occasional showers (maybe a thundershower) and cooler temperatures around through Tuesday.

— Molly Robey, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022

Definition of thundershower

Noun

Development odds plummeted to zero for another disturbance the hurricane center was tracking.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 11 Aug. 2026
That forecast also notably dropped its range for the overall number of major hurricanes — Category 3 or greater — from one to three to zero to two.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026

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