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Tornado vs Simoom - What's the difference?

tornado | simoom |

As nouns the difference between tornado and simoom

is that tornado is tornado while simoom is a hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularity of arabia, syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.

tornado

English

(wikipedia tornado)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= 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.

    Synonyms

    * twister * cyclone

    Derived terms

    * tornado watch, tornado warning (A tornado watch' means that conditions are favorable for producing a tornado. A tornado ' warning means that a tornado has been sighted in the area or has been detected on radar.) * tornado shelter

    See also

    * cyclone * dust devil * hurricane * tsunami * typhoon * waterspout * willy willy

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    simoom

    English

    (wikipedia simoom)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularity of Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom . Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
  • * 1916 , (James Joyce), (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p.101)
    • Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar.