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Severe weather refers to any dangerous meteorological phenomena with the potential to cause
damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life. [1] Types of severe weather phenomena vary,
depending on the latitude, altitude, topography, and atmosphericconditions. High winds, hail,
excessive precipitation, and wildfires are forms and effects of severe weather, as
are thunderstorms,downbursts, lightning, tornadoes, waterspouts, tropical cyclones,
and extratropical cyclones. Regional and seasonal severe weather phenomena
include blizzards, snowstorms, ice storms, and duststorms.[2]
Contents
1 Terminology
2 Causes
3 Categories
4 High winds
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4.1 Tornado
4.2 Downburst
4.5 Waterspout
4.8 Wildfires
5 Hail
6.1 Monsoons
8.1 Drought
Terminology[edit]
Meteorologists generally define severe weather as any aspect of the weather that poses risks to
life, property or requires the intervention of authorities. A narrower definition of severe weather is any
weather phenomena relating to severe thunderstorms.[2][3]
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), severe weather can be categorized into
two groups: general severe weather and localized severe weather.[1] Nor'easters, European wind
storms, and the phenomena that accompany them form over wide geographic areas. These
occurrences are classified as general severe weather.[1] Downbursts and tornadoes are more
localized and therefore have a more limited geographic effect. These forms of weather are classified
as localized severe weather.[1] The termsevere weather is technically not the same phenomenon
as extreme weather. Extreme weather describes unusual weather events that are at the extremes of
the historical distribution for a given are