There are many things that make living in Taiwan exciting and maybe even a little scary. Every year, typhoons come to the island, bringing lots of wind and rain along with them. And when you’re not worried about the latest typhoon, you can get nervous about earthquakes instead.
Of course, Taiwan is no different from any other country in the world. The weather in every place is always changing, and can even be a little dangerous.
The picture to the right is of a tornado. Tornados are not the biggest storms, and they don’t last the longest. Still, tornados can be some of the scariest storms in the world. There are many names in English for tornados. Some people call them twisters, and other people call them cyclones. Tornados over water are called waterspouts.
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Whatever you call it, for something to be a tornado, it must touch both the ground and a storm in the sky. When a tornado is first beginning to come out of the clouds above, but hasn’t touched the ground yet, it is called a funnel cloud. (Kayleen Hartman, Staff Writer)
許多事物讓生活在台灣是令人興奮，甚至有點嚇人的事。颱風每年都會挾帶狂風暴雨，侵襲這座島嶼。假如你不擔心最新形成的颱風，可能會因地震而緊張。
當然，台灣與世上其他國家並無兩樣。世界各地的氣候都不斷在改變，甚至有點危險。
右方是龍捲風的照片。龍捲風不是最大的暴風，也不是持續最久的。然而，龍捲風卻可能是世上最駭人的風暴。在英文中，龍捲風有許多不同的稱呼。有人稱它們為「twisters」，也有人稱之為「cyclones」。席捲水上的龍捲風則被稱為「水龍捲」。
無論你怎麼稱呼它，要稱為龍捲風，就必須是同時接觸地面以及空中的風暴。龍捲風從高空的雲層首度探頭而出，但尚未接觸地面時，就被稱為「漏斗雲」。 （翻譯︰賴美君）
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