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tempestsnounpl. of tempest a disturbance of the atmosphere accompanied by wind and often by precipitation (as rain or snow)the sudden summertime tempest drove us off the golf course and into the clubhouse squalls, storms blizzards, ice storms, snowstormscloudbursts, hailstorms, rainsqualls, rainstorms, thundershowers, thunderstorms, weathers, windstormsnortheasters(or nor'easters), northers, southeasters, southwesterscyclones, hurricanes, typhoonssandstorms a violent disturbance (as of the political or social order)the town council handled the tempest over cuts to the school budget as well as could be expected bouleversements, cataclysms, convulsions, earthquakes, paroxysms, storms, tumults, upheavals, uproars insurgencies, insurrections, mutinies, overthrows, overturns, rebellions, revolts, revolutions, subversions, uprisings, upsetsfits, seizures, spasmseruptions, flare-ups, outbreaks, outburstsbluster, bobberies, bustles, coils, commotions, furores, furors, fusses, hubbubs, hullabaloos, hurly-burlies, pandemoniums, routs, rows, ruckuses, ructions, rumpuses, shindys(or shindies), squalls, stews, stirs, to-dos, turmoils, welters, williwaws |