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How to Say "Thunderstorm" in English

3 ways to talk about thunderstorm weather in English — from tourist-friendly to local fluency.

Tourist Simple survival phrases anyone can say
There's a storm.
Simple
Expat Natural conversational sentences
There's a big thunderstorm rolling in.
Natural descriptive
Local Idioms and expressions that sound native
It's absolutely going off out there - thunder, lightning, the works!
'going off' = happening intensely; 'the works' = everything
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