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Bookmark or Share- Weather Impact Alert | High winds, heavy rain hitting Inland ...Wind gusts up to 60 mph may cause power outages and tree damage. SPOKANE, Wash. — The Inland Northwest is facing a significant weather event today, with a combination of high winds, heavy rain ...
- Under A High Wind Warning? Here's How To PrepareHigh winds can knock out power, down trees, and, in rarer cases, can lead to roof damage. The National Weather Service (NWS) issues high wind watches and warnings when these potentially...
- Severe Weather 101: Damaging Winds TypesTypes of Damaging Winds. Straight-line wind is a term used to define any thunderstorm wind that is not associated with rotation, and is used mainly to differentiate from tornadic winds. A downdraft is a small-scale column of air that rapidly sinks toward the ground.
- Severe Weather 101: Damaging Winds BasicsDamage from severe thunderstorm winds account for half of all severe reports in the lower 48 states and is more common than damage from tornadoes. Wind speeds can reach up to 100 mph and can produce a damage path extending for hundreds of miles.
- Wind - WikipediaWind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few hours, to global winds resulting from the difference in absorption of solar energy between the climate ...
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