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Recent Examples of thunderstormLouisville weather forecast Tuesday Showers and possibly a thunderstorm.—Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Oct. 2025 The broad area of low pressure is producing disorganized thunderstorms and showers several hundred miles south-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, the hurricane center said in a tropical outlook issued at 2 p.m. ET.—James Powel, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025 The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2025 Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm.—Southern California Weather Report, Oc Register, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for thunderstorm
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.
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Frank Witsil,
Detroit Free Press,
6 Apr. 2023
Speaking under dark clouds minutes after a thundershower drenched onlookers, Ms. Truss leaned on the weather as a metaphor for the economic challenges facing Britain.
For most of the Lower Peninsula and the UP there is a slightly higher of rain while southern areas are forecast to see normal precipitation.
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Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
20 Oct. 2025
With the season’s snowfall dependent on storms that happen on a day-by-day basis, some of these areas could see these wetter conditions in the form of winter precipitation.
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