So what do we know about the conditions that cause these violent storms?

CNN: The making of a nightmare tornado

The impact of climate change will also be felt in inland cities because of larger, wetter and more violent storms.

FORBES: Asia's Megacities Pose A Stark Environmental Challenge

These violent storms almost always require that the wind speeds increase from 20 mph on the ground to more than 100 mph (horizontally) aloft.

CNN: The making of a nightmare tornado

Twenty years from today, we could live in an age defined by ever-more-violent storms and watch as other nations stake out a crucial advantage in clean energy technology.

CNN: Obama needs to lay out a plan on climate crisis

The final leg from New Zealand to the Antarctic was an epic in itself, battling violent storms and treacherous pack ice before the Nimrod anchored in McMurdo Sound on Jan 28th 1908.

BBC: In the footsteps of Shackleton

PORTLAND, Maine Damaging winds flattened trees and utility wires and knocked out power in parts of northern New England on Sunday, flights were delayed in New York City and there were reports of a tornado in South Carolina as the East Coast weathered the remnants of violent storms that claimed 13 lives in Oklahoma.

WSJ: Damaging storms moving through east, south

During an eclipse scientist are able to measure the effect of the sun on the Earth's atmosphere and observe the violent magnetic storms in outer atmosphere of the sun - the corona.

BBC: 11 August

Solar storms are violent eruptions on the sun that send a wave of charged particles, called plasma, into space at the speed of more than one million miles per hour.

MSN: Solar storms sparked by giant 'magnetic rope,' study finds