Sentences with phrase «fierce winds»

The central stars fierce wind may have triggered their formation.

When fierce winds make the water surface turbulent, the effective water surface area exposed to the atmosphere is multiplied many times.

The world's highest glacier, Khumbu, was turning visibly darker as particles of fine dust, blown by fierce winds, settled on the bright, fresh snow.

This nebula is a region full of intense activity, with fierce winds from hot stars, swirling chimneys of gas, and energetic star formation all embedded within a hazy labyrinth of gas and dust.

Palm trees blow in fierce winds on Hawaii's Kona Coast.

Detailed radio images reveal a banana - shaped region where fierce winds from a star nearing its death (upper right) collide with weaker winds from a large companion star (shown here at three different positions during its 8 - year orbit).

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, churned across northern Caribbean islands on Wednesday with a catastrophic mix of fierce winds, surf and rain, en route to a possible Florida landfall at the weekend.

The theory is that fierce winds carry solar heat around HD 189733b, whereas on Corot 1b, metal oxides appear to absorb heat high in the stratosphere and quickly re-radiate it before it can be spread around.

Many of the flow systems seem to start in the Antarctic mountains, near outcrops of exposed rock, or in places where fierce winds have scoured snow off the ice beneath.

When a massive star with fierce winds like Zeta Oph zips through space, it forms a pile - up of material that glows.

Whether she's staring the camera out, battling against fierce winds for a silent movie - ish set - piece, or jumping on an enemy's car in a rare show of anger, Vega brooks no doubt in her immersion, nor in her ability to sell every mood - swing without forcing her hand.

The storm brought fierce winds and a 12 - foot storm surge that killed 135,000 people and damaged 9,000 square miles (23,500 square kilometers), including over 60 percent of the country's rice fields.

Strong, fierce winds uprooted trees, blew over power lines and damaged at least one building Sunday in Reading Center, about seven to 10 miles north of Watkins Glen in northern Schuyler County.

Giant stars are the galaxy's blowhards: They emit fierce winds of particles and shed lots of mass.

But if a fire or fierce wind takes out half your house, your home warranty won't foot the bill.

According to NASA science writer Kathryn Hansen, the visible browning of the islands could have been caused by fierce winds, which reached speeds of 185 mph and tore plants and trees from the earth.

The game took place in fierce wind, and despite the high quality of the...

Weevils have attacked the plants in the past, damaging the local crop, but the biggest threats to supply are the lack of large - scale producers (most locals just grow a few plants for their own use) and hurricanes, which dump heavy rains and pack a punch with fierce winds that destroy the fragile plants.

Over the years researchers have come up with a number of possible explanations: an ancient sea once covered the valleys; fierce winds carry the salt there from the surrounding oceans; the region sees a lot of hydrothermal activity; chemical or physical weathering of the rocks raises the concentration.

Hurricane Harvey made landfall early Aug. 26 as a Category 4 storm near Rockport, Texas, bringing fierce winds and heavy rain.

Fire from the sky, a fierce wind, boils all over his body.

6:12 Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red; 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

As the fierce winds charged her belly Her body was distended, and her mouth was wide open, He released the arrow, it tore her belly It cut through her insides, splitting the heart.

A member of the brassica family, maca is grown at altitudes of 14,000 feet in an extreme climate of freezing cold, fierce winds and intense sunlight, where no other crops can survive.

«Indeed, without the more than 200 dedicated individuals who monitor miles of beach while enduring icy water and fierce winds, this important project would simply not be possible,» Clayton noted.

The Category 1 storm will whip up large waves and life - threatening rip currents off Long Island and New Jersey from Tuesday into Wednesday, while pummeling the city with rain and fierce winds, the National Weather Service predicted.

On Wednesday, a fierce wind storm caused by a unique weather combination shook the Rochester area.

From that they could calculate its temperature; Charbonneau's team has since been able to create a crude weather map of their exoplanet, HD 189733 b, which showed that fierce winds must be spreading heat around its surface.

Suddenly a fierce wind arose.

Broo's farmers had fended off occasional incursions for hundreds of years, but the little ice age's fierce winds and the township's unfortunate location ultimately doomed it, the authors reported last week in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

Early on, when the cluster begins to condense from a collapsing cloud of gas, the brightest and shortest - lived stars blow out fierce winds that energize the first set of cosmic rays and expel material from the star itself.

Temperatures regularly dip to below 70 degrees Celsius, accompanied by fierce winds.

Only, there was such a fierce wind blowing that those pictures weren't good.

It seems that European fashion is far from fierce winds and low temperatures.

With the fierce wind an umbrella would be useless.

When the soundtrack isn't overtaken by the fierce winds attacking the household, a miserable tune arises, a perfectly fitting companion to the harrowing images.

Judy Davis, for example, projects a fierce wounded anger that adds a whole dimension to her marriage; she has given this man her money and trust and has seen both thrown away.

She walks down a street against a fierce wind and this becomes a surreal, dreamlike tableau.

The Lost Levels expands on Super Mario Bros with tough new level designs, trickier enemies and new features like fierce winds that blow Mario away.

The weapon could spread tremendous amounts of ice and fierce winds that could freeze anything from individual targets to entire realms.

Each chapter manages to introduce an impressively steady array of new ideas, with the first world introducing ice blocks that fall when you touch them and lift - like machinery that moves when you land on it; while later levels include everything from fierce winds to jelly - like obstructions.

For example: «branch» — strong branch; «wind» — fierce wind, etc..

She continued along the rocky path, hugging her coat around her, a fierce wind at her back.

Huge snowdrifts buried houses and trains, and 200 ships sank in waves whipped up by fierce winds.»

Hurricane Maria, the sixth fastest intensifying hurricane on record, likely slammed parts of mountainous Puerto Rico with fiercer winds than previously reported, the National Hurricane Center said Monday in a final assessment of the lethal storm.

Pounded by wild seas and fierce winds, the coast of the Port Campbell National Park has been sculpted over millions of years to become one of the most impressive natural sights in Australia.

There's something eerily lovely about the empty, snow - burdened Canadian forest, branches flailing in the fierce winds and sheets of snow coming down without end.