what is a "calm before the storm" when referring to storms?
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According to wikipedia (as far as weather is concerned!):\n"Calm conditions, especially with clear skies, indicate the dominance of a high pressure area. Because highs are regions of descending air, they discourage the formation of phenomena typically associated with weather, such as clouds, wind, and precipitation. Calm conditions, though, may also result from a circumstance known as "the calm before the storm," in which a large thunderstorm cell to the west may be updrafting the westerly wind before it can arrive locally. This situation is readily identifiable by looking to the west — such an approaching storm will be close enough to be unmistakable."\n\nThere you have it! :-)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_lore
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Thundershowers. It doesnt mean it will be raining thunder! It means that there will be little thunder with more rain.
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Extratropical cyclones- storms that have frontal interactions, sometimes called midlatitude cyclones\nTropical cyclones- hurricanes, tropical storms; these have no frontal zones and are usually found in "source regions" during tropical season.\nCyclones and disturbances are not limited to the surface and can occur at any level in the atmosphere.
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the literal translation is "tranquil", that is what spanish speaking people say when they are trying to get somebody or someone to call down, so I guess it means "calm down".
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Well, when it is storming, try to do something that you really like and that occupies your mind.  That way, you will learn to start associating something nice with storms and they won't seem so bad anymore.
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Just stay where you are, especially if you are some place safe.  That calmness will pass very quickly, and then the winds will start up again.
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Isolated is fewer than Scattered\n\n\nNational Weather Service forecasters will forecast "isolated" thunderstorms when we are pretty certain that storms are going to form, but we only expect them to affect about 10% of the area. In other words, 90% of the area won't get wet.\n\n"Widely scattered thunderstorms" means 20% of the area will be affected.\n"Scattered thunderstorms" means 30-50% of the area will be affected.
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A storm is any disturbed state of a planet's atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. It may be marked by strong wind (a wind storm), thunder and lightning (a thunderstorm), heavy precipitation, such as ice (ice storm), or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere (as in a dust storm, snowstorm, hailstorm, etc).\n\nFormation\nStorms are created when a center of low pressure develops, with a system of high pressure surrounding it. This combination of opposing forces can create winds and result in the formation of storm clouds, such as the cumulonimbus. Small, localized areas of low pressure can form from hot air rising off hot ground, resulting in smaller disturbances such as dust devils and whirlwinds.\n\nYou could get more information from the link below...
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In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of low atmospheric pressure characterised by inward spiraling winds that spin clockwise in the northern hemisphere of the Earth, or counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere. It is a generic description covering a wide variety of different meteorological phenomena such as tropical cyclones, Extratropical cyclones and tornadoes, thus is rarely used by meteorologists without a qualifying term.\n\nThe terms hurricane and typhoon are regionally specific names for a strong tropical cyclone—a non-frontal, synoptic-scale, warm-core low-pressure system with cyclonic surface wind circulation (Holland 1993). Specifically, hurricanes generally refer to such storms in the Atlantic Basin and the Pacific Ocean east of the International Date Line. Typhoons refer to the storms in the north Pacific west of the International Date Line. The typhoon term has also been applied to tropical cyclones in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean, but this is not considered correct usage today\n\nare same
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A nimbus cloud is a dark precipituous cloud. Nimbus is a Latin word meaning cloud or rain storm. The prefix nimbo- or the suffix -nimbus indicates a precipituous cloud; for example, a nimbostratus cloud is a precipituous stratus cloud, and a cumulonimbus cloud is a precipitous cumulus cloud.
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Same reason there is a calm before the storm.... it's a philosophical issue.
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1.This means the rain is scattered over a large area and where you live, you may or may not get any.\n2.This means that in your area, some showers are likely.\n3.This means you can expect moderate rain in your area.\n3.This means that rain is expected at some point in your area but as to when, they do not know except that it appears cloud formation carrying rain may hit your place.\n5 This means that you can expect rain with a  reasonable degree of certainty in your area at a significant rate measuring several millimeters
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A 'watch' is simply letting you know that conditions are favorable for a severe thunderstorm or tornado.\nA 'warning' means one has been spotted and you need to get inside or into a storm cellar if you have one.
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Very well done, reminds me of Jesus walking on the water to the disciples in the storm. When they saw Him they were more afraid of Him than the storm until He said "It is I" then they were at peace. It is in the storms of live that we really learn from Him. In your third verse, when you walk with Christ there is great peace in the storm.
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Probably just the weather changing quickly ? We had a thunderstorm a few weeks ago, except it was snowing with it. Really warm before it and really cold afterwards... I'm sure it's nothing to alarm yourself over.
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Thin air, but there are storms with high velocity winds.  Very cold at the poles, and cold elsewhere with a bright sun.  No clouds, but the wind picks up a lot of dust and sand.
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This is a trick question. There really isn't much of a difference. They all mean the sky is part clear, and part cloudy. It just gives us a larger vocabulary to work with. \n\nAlthough most of the time, we'll tend to use it as a bit of psychological factor. If the forecast is improving (as in, rain event is just ending and we'll clear up a bit), we'll usually go partly sunny. \n\nIf the forecast is deteriorating (as in, it's sunny now, but rain moving in tomorrow), we might say mostly cloudy as the condition during the increasing clouds. \n\nWe tend to save 'partly cloudy' for nighttime, since we can't use partly sunny.