thunderstorm
thuhn der stawrm
- n a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning
- In a thunderstorm which delayed it for nearly half an hour at Washington's airport, a Douglas DC-3 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines took off one night last week for Pittsburgh .
- Only the outside walls remained standing and that was probably because of a timely thunderstorm that helped contain the fire.
- What is a thunderstorm? Nobody knows exactly, because science has never thoroughly dissected one.