Sentences with phrase «hailstones as»

«There were hailstones as big as the tip of a thumb,» he said, estimating a fall in output of between 10 - 20 percent for next year's harvest.

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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.
This week we've had both sun & hailstone showers!!!! Since this I've discovered your page «Capsule Wardrobe 101» on how you break down your tops & bottoms and this has inspired me to further tackle my wardrobe this week, as I found your breakdown a good guideline for myself.
If they waited much longer for the isolated, rotating thunderstorm known as a supercell to develop, they would face a drive through brutal winds and baseball - size hailstones to get to their vantage point.
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.
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.
No collision insurance covers you against non collision damage such as hailstones and the like.
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