Sentences with phrase «by hailstones»

I was never hit by hailstones whereas I've mixed a few gin and tonics with fresh hail in summer camps at 40 - 45North.
You don't need to get clocked on the head by a hailstone the size of a grapefruit to think that there was something playful about The Terror this week.

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Joshua's victory over the kings of the south at Gibeon, where the LORD aided by throwing the enemy into panic, showering them with hailstones, and prolonging the light of day (Josh.
Whether it's by disease, or mishap, or hailstones, or the angel of life, or the sword of a Jewish soldier, the means is up to Him.
Hailstones are produced by severe summer thunderstorms, when frozen water droplets are tossed within a cloud and accumulate bulk until they're too heavy for the updrafts to support.
Or maybe that should be a baptism by snow, hailstones, rain, and wind.
This hypothesis was quite quickly rejected when results began to conflict (there was more and bigger hail, or at least no detectable hail suppression as a result of the seeding) and it became understood that the seeding also produced stronger updrafts (due to the accelerated release of the latent heat of freezing by the silver iodide seeding), which, in turn, produced an environment which was conducive to the formation of even larger hailstones.
Another illustrative gem is the formation of thunderstorms, where the electric charge is shown to be formed by rain, snow and hailstones whizzing around inside the huge cloud.
Hailstones are created so it is believed, by a more or less continuous loop of being caught in violent updrafts as found in thunderstorms, ie; above glider example, and then falling out of the updraught cell back down to lower levels where they might be caught up again in another or the same updraft cell and so accumulate water and ice on the core of the frozen hailstone over a period of anywhere from just one passage in the updraft to a number of passages which can be ascertained and recognised by the number of rings when a hailstone is dissected across its diameter.
Comprehensive auto insurance also covers for damages by natural disasters and rough weather conditions like hailstones, hurricanes, tornadoes and the likes.
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