Extreme Weather

Conditions
Extreme
-reaching a high or the highest degree;
very great.

Ex.
extreme cold
Twister
-a tornado

Ex. 
1. They've issued a tornado warning for this area.
2. I heard a tornado never strikes twice in the
same spot.
3. The greatest fall registered as occurring during
a single tornado was 6 in.
drought
-a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall,
leading to a shortage of water.
Ex. "the cause of Europe's recent droughts"
Natural hazard
-A widely accepted definition characterizes natural hazards as "those
elements of the physical environment, harmful to man and caused by forces
extraneous to him."1/ More specifically, in this document, the term "natural
hazard" refers to all atmospheric, hydrologic, geologic (especially seismic and
volcanic)