If the right conditions last long enough, a hurricane can produce violent winds, incredible waves, torrential rains, and floods".
Forecasters have warned that there is more extreme weather to come next week as Storm Ruth batters Britain with gales, torrential rain, huge waves and yet more flooding.
Scientists have long predicted that global warming will worsen heat waves and torrential rainfalls.
That clay from baking Mexico could make icebergs is fanciful enough, let alone torrential downpours or breaking waves.
The south of England and Wales is currently covered by a Met office severe weather warning for Saturday for gales, torrential rain and huge waves.
That will put extra energy and moisture into the atmosphere that can fuel weather extremes, like heat waves and torrential rains.
With monsoon-like predictability, the fierce winds, towering waves and torrential rains of movie hype roll in from California every year at about this time.
We were sailing with the tide, but against the wind, and as we came through Hook Passage we were met by huge whitecapped waves and a torrential downpour.
Researchers have found that the species, which has lost 20% of its population globally since 1987, faces a growing threat from increasing numbers of torrential rainstorms and sweltering heat waves caused by climate change, which could accelerate the species' decline.
Tropical cyclones can produce extremely powerful winds and torrential rain, as well as high waves and damaging storm surge.
