Identifying Hurricanes and Tropical Storms: Explaining key extreme weather terms

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Identifying Hurricanes and Tropical Storms: Explaining key extreme weather terms
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Hurricane Beryl is barreling through Texas Monday after devastating parts of Mexico and the Caribbean.The storm regained hurricane strength over the weekend as

FILE - Fishermen push a boat damaged by Hurricane Beryl at the Bridgetown fisheries, Barbados, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. The storm regained hurricane strength over the weekend as it traveled over the Gulf of Mexico . It had previously been downgraded to a tropical storm as it weakened over land.

atmospheric river — Long and wide plumes of moisture that form over an ocean and flow through the sky over land. derecho — A widespread and usually fast-moving straight-line windstorm. It is usually more than hundreds of miles long and more than 100 miles across. microburst — Occurs when a mass of cooled air rushes downward out of a thunderstorm, hits the ground and rushes outward in all directions.

tropical depression — A tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind is 38 mph or less.

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