A period of bad weather with strong winds, and often rain, thunder, lightning, or snow.
From Old English “storm,” meaning a violent disturbance or attack, used for both weather and warfare. It is related to other Germanic words for noise and disturbance.
We still ‘storm’ a castle in stories, using the same word as for wild weather—both are sudden, powerful attacks. Storms in the sky and storms in life feel similar enough that we use the same metaphors: ‘weathering the storm,’ ‘eye of the storm,’ ‘stormy relationship.’
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