1. A strong disturbance in the air above the earth, with strong winds and usually also with rain, snow, sleet, or hail and sometimes lightning and thunder: Aimee and Roger were outside when the storm hit, so they had to run for cover.
2. A sudden occasion of something in large amounts: The politician was welcomed with a storm of applause.

1. To attack violently or to attack or to capture a place; especially, a well-defended one, suddenly and with great force: The soldiers stormed the barricades.
2. To be violently and noisily angry, or to say something in this way: The mob stormed through the streets as they expressed their desire to overthrow the government.
3. To go somewhere in a rush, violently or angrily: Trisha stormed out of the room as she yelled at her husband.

"Do you know who I am?", Trina stormed.
4. To blow strongly, and to drop large amounts of dust, rain, snow, sleet, etc.; or to do more than one at the same time or closely together: It stormed all night and suddenly without any warning.

A very strong wind which carries clouds of small particles of dirt across a large area: There was a dust storm blowing into large areas of Southern California from Death Valley which has intensified the bad drought conditions that the state has been recently experiencing.

When space weather is bad, dangerous particles abound and so space weather has become a general term for the environmental conditions above the Earth's atmosphere: Space storms include protons and ions, known as galactic cosmic rays (GRCs), that rain down at near-light speed from space, and similar particles come in bursts from the Sun, called solar energetic particles (SEPs).

An abnormal and rapid rise in ocean levels along a coast, caused by strong winds.

The path that a storm takes.

The term is usually used with hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, and other major storms.