Severe weather

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Image:FireDOW1-768.JPG Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous.

Examples include:

• arctic cyclone
• blizzard
• cyclone (including European windstorms)
• drought
• derecho
• gustnado
• funnel cloud
• waterspout
• heat wave
• ice storm
• monsoon
• supercell
• thunderstorm
• tornado (also referred to as a whirlwind or twister)
• tropical cyclone (also called a hurricane, typhoon, or "cyclone")

Phenomena caused by severe weather include:

• flood

• forest fire

• landslide, mudslide

• avalanche

• derecho

See also extreme weather, meteorology, Severe weather terminology (United States).