The phrase
"powerful thunderstorms" refers to very strong and intense storms that produce loud and booming sounds called thunder, along with heavy rain and lightning.
Full definition
When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Cebile it measured cloud top temperatures and saw its eye circled by an impressive ring
of powerful thunderstorms just before it went through eyewall replacement.
Powerful thunderstorms with cloud top temperatures as cold as or colder than minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 degrees Celsius) surrounded the eye.
During the first half of 2017, a series of
extremely powerful thunderstorm outbreaks with damaging hail and tornadoes caused $ 41 billion of damage in the U.S., according to a new report from Munich Re, a German reinsurance company that tracks and analyzes natural disasters.
Last week, one of these unexpected disasters was suddenly revealed: a paper in Science argued that
powerful thunderstorms threaten to rip a hole in the atmospheric ozone layer that protects the planet's surface from dangerous ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun.
There are unproven links in the chain of reasoning of a study that claims that
more powerful thunderstorms could blast a hole in the ozone layer.
«Assuming the attributes of a tornado,»
a powerful thunderstorm tears through Saratoga County during the late afternoon rush hour but largely spares Saratoga Springs.
It's even less clear that
powerful thunderstorms are on the rise due to climate change.
Windshear increases the production of thunderstorms, and more
powerful thunderstorms will tend to spawn tornadoes.