Storms led to short hiatus ending (5)
I believe the answer is:
rants
'storms' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their -s form, I don't see how one could define the other.
'led to short hiatus ending' is the wordplay.
'led' becomes 'ran' (to lead is to run or be in charge of).
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'ending' suggests the final letters (the ending of the word).
The final letter of 'hiatus' is 's'.
'to' with its last letter taken off is 't'.
'ran'+'t'+'s'='RANTS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rants that I've seen before include "Loud pompous declamations" , "Raves" , "Loud bombastic declamations" , "Noisily declaims" .)