List of severe weather phenomena

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Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous to human life and property.

Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.

Examples[]

Atmospheric[]

Electrical storms[]

Fire[]

Inundation[]

Oceans and bodies of water[]

Precipitation[]

Snow[]

Ice[]

Rain[]

  • Blood rain
  • Cold drop (Spanish: gota fría; archaic as a meteorological term), colloquially, any high impact rainfall event along the Mediterranean coast of Spain
  • Drought, a prolonged water supply shortage, often caused caused by persistent lack of, or much reduced, rainfall
  • Floods
  • Rainstorm
  • Red rain in Kerala (for related phenomena, see Blood rain)

Surface movement[]

Thermal[]

Wind[]

Other[]

  • Heat lightning
  • Zud, widespread livestock death, mainly by starvation, caused by climatic conditions

Some related meteorological terms:

Phenomena caused by severe thunderstorms[]

See also[]

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