Its life cycle usually has 5 stages: dust-whirl, organizing, mature, shrinking & decaying
When this, the border of an air mass, passes over a fixed location, there's a sudden change in the weather
In 1995, 11 tropical storms in the Atlantic strengthened to these, the most in one year since 1969
In the winter of 1997, the Great Lakes' lake effect dumped over 90" of this on Montague, New York
As seen in Los Angeles, a thermal inversion of warm air covering cool air can cause a buildup of this
This phenomenon begins with an invisible electric discharge called a stepped leader
In early 1997 floodwaters trapped 2,200 visitors in this California national park
James Whitcomb Riley wrote of the time when this "is on the punkin", & he didn't mean a fellow poet
It must be hard to sleep late in Kipling's "Mandalay", where "The dawn comes up like" this
The Pacific Northwest is the setting for David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these