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Regional persistent rainfalls, one of the high-impact weather extremes in China, can cause mud slides in maintain regions and floods in plains. Tornadoes, which occur frequently in the central United States and eastern China, are also weather extremes during the warm season.

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Qian, W. (2017). Regional Convective Events. In: Temporal Climatology and Anomalous Weather Analysis. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3641-5_6

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