Sentences with phrase «from hailstones»

In particular, none of the hypotheses about their origin explain why individual ring particles, which range in size from hailstones to small boulders, average between 90 % and 95 % ice.

Not exact matches

As to hailstones, telling someone that God can rain down 100 pound hailstones on their heads doesn't sound much different from the pagan pantheon found in Greek, Roman, and Celtic traditions... It looks nothing like Jesus.

A short sequence of hailstones smacking against the absolutely insane piece of machinery that is The Guillotines delivers an eye blink of the type of tone I was expecting from the piece.

There are only a few places in the world where you can go from glorious sunshine one minute to sideways hailstones the next!

Hello beach cottage friends from a cool and stormy Sydney, a huge storm passed through from Bondi over to our beaches this morning, there was talk of huge hailstones though they never did actually arrive here - it seems the weather does not know what it's doing this year, one minute it's absolutely boiling...

Largely eliminates issues of damage from microcracks as a result of foot traffic or vibration, earthquake and hailstone resistant

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.

Convective clouds can be artificiially modified to some extent, i.e. to prevent hailstones from forming.

Comprehensive policy covers for the damages resulting from disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and extreme weather conditions like heavy rains, snow, or hailstones.

Second, Hailstone et al devised and validated a theory of planned behaviour (Attitudes of People from Ethnic Minorities for Help - seeking for Dementia) questionnaire to predict medical help - seeking for dementia in the UK South Asians.22 They found that attitudes to dementia predicted 77 % of variance in help - seeking with the strongest predictor being perceived social pressure.