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Extreme weather disturbed hot pony (7)

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typhoon

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'extreme weather' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both types of natural phenomena as well as being singular nouns.
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'disturbed hot pony' is the wordplay.
'disturbed' is an anagram indicator (the order of letters is disturbed).
'hot'+'pony'='hotpony'
'hotpony' with letters rearranged gives 'TYPHOON'.

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(Other definitions for typhoon that I've seen before include "Violent cyclonic storm" , "Storm, cyclone" , "Indian Ocean cyclone" , "Violent storm - WWII aircraft" , "Pacific tropical storm" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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