storminess
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- noun
- /ˈstɔrmɪnəs/
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tempestuosidad
- Forecasters warned residents about the storminess expected this weekend, advising them to stay indoors.
- increased storminess
Examples
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Future increases in storminess are a serious problem for our society and should be a great concern.
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Both El Niños and increased meridional circulation have been linked to increased storminess in Southern California.
Academic text (1994) -
During the past 600 years, New England storminess appears to have been increasing naturally.
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Denying increases in storminess has also become a cottage industry within the larger anti-science climate change denialist community.
Blog text (15) -
Supporting the evidence of increased storminess during the century is the historical record of El Niños and summary observations on climate during the Little Ice Age.
Academic text (1994) -
If the pattern of millennial-scale variability that we documented through the Holocene persists into the future, New England storminess would continue to increase for the next 900 years.
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This argument arises in part from a perceived need to adapt better to present climate variability and in part from a lack of faith in predicted location-specific climate changes, such as increases or decreases in rainfall or storminess.
Academic text (2002) -
Regional effects are poorly understood; they may include not just relative cooling but also greatly increased seasonality and storminess, as occurred during the Younger Dryas, an analogous event some 11,000 years ago.
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The storminess in the area caused widespread power outages and property damage.
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Unpredictable storminess during the summer months can disrupt travel plans for many families.
Synonyms
Very strong winds and heavy rain that make conditions dangerous
Very bad weather that makes outdoor plans difficult
Antonyms
How Stormy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Storminess comes from the simple word storm ('violent weather') plus the ending -ness ('state or quality'). So storminess literally means the 'state of having storms' and is used for violent, storm-filled weather.