Sudden, violent storms are frequent.

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Generally speaking, rain falls mostly during the summer months, often in the form of thunderstorms.

Variations in the Sun's magnetic field are carried outward by the solar wind and can produce magnetic storms in the Earth's own magnetosphere.

The audience was convinced by these arguments, so disconnected were they from the realities of the Arctic summer storms, fogs, high humidity, and ever present threat of ice formation.

A small asteroid, say a half mile wide, would touch off firestorms followed by severe global cooling from the debris kicked up Carl Sagan's nuclear winter thing.

Other countries included the Islamic Republic of Iran (Bam earthquake), Morocco (Al Hoceima earthquake), Namibia, Grenada, Haiti and Guyana (floods), and the Philippines, Pakistan and Nepal (storms and flash floods).

They were first recorded on October 21, 1989, on a monochrome video of a thunderstorm on the horizon taken from the Space Shuttle as it passed over Australia.

Artist Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of nature and time. These sculptures then become musical scores for a string quartet to play.

Such catastrophic events underscore the vulnerability of coastal regions worldwide to extreme weather events that produce intense storm surges (increased water depth at the coast) and large, powerful waves.

Fighting between the separatists and the Ukrainian military has escalated in recent months, and Mariupol residents can hear mortars and rocket fire when the wind blows from the east, from the front line towns of Shyrokyne and Novotroitske.

The paradox of water is that it sustains life but can also cause death when it becomes a carrier of deadly microbes or takes the form of a tsunami, flash flood, storm, or hurricane.

Much of the risk could be managed by erecting seawalls, building storm doors for the Subway, and simple fixes like porous pavements all at a cost of around 100 million a year.

The rising concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is leading to more extreme storms, higher intensity hurricanes, rising ocean levels, melting glaciers and ice sheets, droughts, floods and other climate changes.

Many countries, including those with low income levels, need to rebuild their economic defenses for example, by strengthening their budget positions to protect themselves against future storms.

First, it threatens to sabotage India s energy import diversification strategy by making it overly dependent on the Islamist bankrolling oil monarchies including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar which have managed to ride out the Arab Spring.