Storm Definition and 69 Threads

It seems that the storm has finally reached the shores of Europe. Fortis is partly nationalized in Holland, Belgium and Luxemburg - I'm a customer with Fortis, btw. It is the biggest bank in Belgium, and one of the biggest in Holland. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7641132.stm

I am not sure if it is even possible but could we survive a severe cosmic storm that lasted for weeks? http://www.solarstorms.org/SRefStorms.html By survive i mean avoid major loss of life, infrastructure.

There's some buzz that this one may storm briefly for about 1 hour centered on about 4:30am Pacific Daylight Time (11:30 UT). That's just about 1 hour from now. So anyone whose still awake might want to peek outside. Maybe you'll see hundreds, or maybe none at all. I've seen storm...

Homework Statement A thunderstorm drops half an inch of rain (approximately .01m) of rain which covers an area of about 70 miles (approximately 10^8 m^2).Estimate the number of raindrops that fell during the storm. Homework Equations Area of a sphere,the raindrop= (4/3)(pi)(r^3) The...

If a tornado is identified as a violent column of air, then what is the difference between a tornado and a dust storm (or I should be saying a dust twister)?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6423659.stm

Homework Statement Someone is putting a small shed in their backyard. The roof is not nailed down so gravity alone is holding it down. The wind suddenly flows across the top of the roogf at 20 m/s. The air inside the shed is 1.01 x 10^15 Pa, the normal atmospheric pressure. The roof has an...

Some pretty neat images here of a very large storm on Saturn with some similarities to a hurricane. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061109_monster_storm.html

Hi! I'm new to Physics Forums and even thought i can't say I know much, I'm interrested at learnig new things. I'm also doing my best to practice my english. I've read you rules and trying to get familiar with them.. Here it goes. I have a question I hope to post in the right Sub-Forum...

Yoo hoo! No school today! Uh, I mean NO WORK today! Actually, thanks to the internet, I still have to work. I just get to work at home, today. Remember the old days when a snow storm meant people couldn't work and had to spend the day sledding instead? Still, I have fire wood and I have...

Thor is banging his anvil the sky is bright with multi forked lightning and the rain can not fall from the sky fast enough, can things get any better :biggrin:

Ever since a lightning storm (last week) my cooker will not go for more than 5 minutes, i set the power and 5 minutes later it sounds an alarm, now i know it has a timer on it but i can not get it to disengage, the buttons i have are, minut minder, cook period, end time, manual, - and +, i have...

I was supposed to do some homework. Instead I turned on the tv and saw Storm of the Century on. THAT MOVIE IS AWESOME! Any one else see it? :biggrin:

"January 2005 Ice Storm in Geneva" http://www.pbase.com/scherrer/s2_january_2005_ice_storm Nature can be both beautiful and damaging.

As a tropical depression, it was not expected to be a threat to the US. Well Nature had other ideas. Gamma may reach hurricane strength if it passes into the Gulf of Mexico, and it could follow Wilma's track to S. Florida. http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200527.html...

With the understanding that I'm taking no credit for this, rather, I was simply regurgitating what had been seen on TV - science shows on DSC, NGC, etc - I predicted a 50ft storm surge around Biloxi Miss. AFAIK this was not predicted by the experts but I can hardly understand why. And it's...

If anyones ever heard of it... its a multi-barreled system that can fire upwards of 1,000,000 rounds per minute. It can be fitted with different types of barrels to fire anything from bullets to 40mm grenades. So what are the real world applications? They say they can setup a few and cover a...

I just talked to my boss and it seems that if I want to get paid this week I need to go pick up my check in person. That means I'm driving to Flagstaff in the middle of a storm. yuck

http://space.com/scienceastronomy/solar_flare_031028.html