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Stories of the Sahara
Stories of the Sahara (撒哈拉的故事) is a 1976 collection of twelve essays by the Taiwanese writer Sanmao, describing her life in El Aaiún in the Spanish Sahara.
Stories We Tell
Stories We Tell (2012) is Sarah Polley's NFB documentary investigating her mother Diane's affair and her biological father Harry Gulkin, using staged Super 8 home movies; 94% Rotten Tomatoes, NY and LA critics' Best Documentary winner.
Stork
A stork is a large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae, a group of 20 species found across tropical and subtropical regions, known for soaring migration on thermals.
Storkriket Biosphere Reserve
Storkriket Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site in Skåne, Sweden, designated 27 September 2025 as the country's eighth biosphere reserve; 110,000 ha across Eslöv, Lund, and Sjöbo with 22% of Sweden's red-listed species.
Storks (film)
Storks is a 2016 American computer-animated comedy film directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, in which storks now ship packages until an unauthorized baby comes off the production line.
Storm
A storm is a disturbed state of the atmosphere marked by severe weather such as strong winds, heavy rain, or lightning, from single thunderstorms to vast cyclones.
Storm (Marvel Comics)
Storm (Ororo Munroe) is a Marvel Comics X-Men superhero created by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, debuting in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975). An Omega-level weather-controlling mutant of Kenyan and American descent, she led the X-Men, married Black Panther, and starred in solo series from 1996 to 2026.
Storm (X-Men: The Animated Series and X-Men '97 character)
Storm in X-Men: The Animated Series and X-Men '97 is the animated Ororo Munroe, weather-controlling mutant voiced by Alison Sealy-Smith; '97 adapts her depowerment by the X-Cutioner and later cosmic-scale power-ups.
Storm Amy
Storm Amy was the first named storm of the 2025/26 European storm season, bringing record October winds, widespread power outages, and one death to Ireland and the UK.
Storm Area 51
Storm Area 51, also known as the Area 51 Raid or Alienstock, was a satirical June 2019 Facebook event by Matty Roberts inviting millions to rush the Nevada base on September 20, 2019; about 3,000 showed up and the fallout included a $3.4 million judgment.
Storm Arwen
Storm Arwen was a European windstorm that struck the UK and Ireland on 26 to 27 November 2021, killing three people and cutting power to over 1 million homes.
Storm Boris (2024)
Storm Boris was a slow-moving low-pressure system that brought record rainfall and severe flooding to Central and Eastern Europe in September 2024, killing 27 people.
Storm Chasers (TV series)
Storm Chasers is an American documentary reality television series that premiered on the Discovery Channel in 2007, following storm chase teams as they intercepted tornadoes in Tornado Alley.
Storm chasing
Storm chasing is the pursuit of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes by vehicle, usually for observation, photography, science, or media coverage, focused on the central United States in spring.
Storm Ciara
Storm Ciara, called Sabine in Germany and Elsa in Norway, was an extratropical cyclone that brought severe gales and flooding to Europe in February 2020.
Storm Ciarán
Storm Ciarán was the third named storm of the 2023/24 European windstorm season, bringing damaging winds and heavy rain to Britain, the Channel Islands, and France.
Storm Constantine
Storm Constantine (1956–2021) was a British fantasy author, creator of the Wraeththu trilogy about androgynous post-humans, and founder of Immanion Press in 2003, also writing the Grigori and Magravandias series.
Storm damage
Storm damage: destruction from winds, hail, tornadoes, storm surge, and flooding. Covers damage mechanisms, Enhanced Fujita rating, assessment methods, insurance allocation, FEMA assessments, and billion-dollar loss trends.
Storm Daniel
Storm Daniel, also called Medicane Daniel, was a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone of September 2023 that hit Greece with record rainfall before dam collapses flooded Derna, Libya, killing thousands.
Storm Darragh
Storm Darragh, also known as Storm Xaveria, was a European windstorm that crossed Ireland and Britain in December 2024, cutting power to over 2.3 million UK customers.
Storm Desmond
Storm Desmond was an extratropical cyclone that affected Ireland and Britain from 4 to 6 December 2015, setting UK 24-hour rainfall records and flooding thousands of homes, chiefly in Cumbria.
Storm drain
A storm drain, also called a storm sewer, is an engineered system that collects street runoff through grated inlets and carries it by pipes to streams, usually untreated.
Storm Duck
Storm Duck (born 2000) is an NFL cornerback for the Miami Dolphins; played at North Carolina (Second-Team All-ACC 2022) and Louisville, signed as a 2024 undrafted free agent, 16 career games, recovering from a 2025 knee injury.
Storm Éowyn
Storm Éowyn was a January 2025 windstorm that struck Ireland and the UK, setting Ireland's record wind gust at 114 mph and cutting power to over one million people.
Storm Eunice
Storm Eunice, also named Storm Zeynep, was a severe European windstorm of 18 February 2022 that set an England gust record of 122 mph at the Isle of Wight.
Storm Events Database
The Storm Events Database is a public NOAA database recording significant US weather events, from tornadoes to hail and floods, maintained by NCEI with records since 1950.
Storm Front (album)
Storm Front (1989) is Billy Joel's eleventh studio album on Columbia, co-produced with Foreigner's Mick Jones, his first since 1977 without Phil Ramone. It hit #1 on the Billboard 200, went 4x Platinum in the US, and yielded the #1 single "We Didn't Start the Fire."
Storm glass
A storm glass, also called a chemical weather glass, is a sealed tube of camphor solution read for weather forecasts in 19th-century England, though it responds to temperature, not pressure.
Storm Goretti
Storm Goretti, also known as Storm Elli, was an extratropical cyclone in January 2026 that brought 99 mph gusts to Cornwall and heavy snow to Wales and the Midlands.
Storm Harry
Storm Harry, also known as Cyclone Harry, was a Mediterranean cyclone in January 2026 that killed at least four people in Tunisia and caused over one billion euros in damage in Sicily.