Blizzard vs Tornado - What's the difference?
blizzard | tornado |
A severe snowstorm, especially with strong winds and greatly reduced visibility.
(figuratively) A large amount of paperwork.
(figuratively) A large number of similar things.
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As nouns the difference between blizzard and tornado
is that blizzard is a severe snowstorm, especially with strong winds and greatly reduced visibility while tornado is a violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.As a verb blizzard
is to fall in windy conditions.blizzard
English
Noun
(en noun)Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
Coordinate terms
* flurrytornado
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(wikipedia tornado)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
- A tornado is a rotating column of air, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud, and nearly always observable as a funnel cloud or tuba. Its vortex, meters in diameter, rotates counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, with wind speeds of 160 to more than 480 kilometres per hour.