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stormy

[stawr-mee] / ˈstɔr mi /


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El Niño could put the UK at greater risk of a wet, stormy autumn.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Protesters clashed with police as thousands of people braved stormy weather to demonstrate against a controversial private property bill outside the Argentine Senate on Thursday.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

Last week, we reported on a radical new plan to protect Earth from a dangerously stormy sun.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Hoyte van Hoytema’s Imax-framed cinematography is assertive and present, rocking with the stormy waves and peering into the torch-lit darkness where the color palette is as starkly orange and black as an ancient Greek urn.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

The night was stormy and “completely dark,” Herrick recalled, “ink black.”

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

According to NOAA, stormier weather is generally more likely in the southern United States during an El Niño.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

In this and other ways I am agreeably disposed to this stronger and stormier Tiguan.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 2026

With hotter, drier summers and wetter, stormier winters, Britain's climate is shifting and the impact is being felt not only in cities, but across the natural world, where species are struggling to adapt.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2025

“We can’t say for sure it’s definitely stormier but, what we can say, is the storms we are having in northwest Europe are getting more severe,” says Bricheno.

From National Geographic Dec. 15, 2023

And in addition to classes, in weather that grew colder and stormier every day, the pilots were given flight tests to decide which aircraft they’d be best suited for.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Macquarie Island is only a tiny piece of land surrounded by the world's stormiest ocean.

From Science Daily May 14, 2026

Jean and Hill’s relationship, both creative and romantic, had become one of the stormiest in hip-hop.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2026

That is because the winter of 2013/14 was the wettest on record and was considered to be the stormiest period for two decades. 

From BBC Jan. 23, 2024

Despite all this, Bricheno notes that the North Sea is far from the stormiest body of water in the world.

From National Geographic Dec. 15, 2023

Those girls were blessed with the ability to sleep through the stormiest of sidewinders.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson




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