Sentences with phrase «in a thunderstorm»

Convective updrafts in thunderstorms prolong the lifetime of ozone (O3) and its anthropogenic precursor NOx [nitric oxide (NO) + nitrogen dioxide (NO2)-RSB- by carrying these gases rapidly upward from the boundary layer into a regime where the O3 production efficiency is higher, chemical destruction is slower, and surface deposition is absent.

Forget Zooey Deschanel and her infantilized, cutesy, «I play a ukulele, wear mismatched thrift store finds, and love running around in thunderstorms» quirky, that's a fantasy.

From the moment we arrived (late after a very challenging drive in a thunderstorm) we were made to feel so welcome by the wonderful staff.

[8] In the north Atlantic and the northeastern Pacific oceans, tropical waves move along the axis of the ITCZ causing an increase in thunderstorm activity, and under weak vertical wind shear, these clusters of thunderstorms can become tropical cyclones.

Starting with a harrowing story about hikers caught in a thunderstorm atop a mountain in California's Sequoia National Park, Ornes describes what scientists have learned about the behavior of lightning and what they are still struggling to understand.

While scientists now know that dark lightning naturally occurs in thunderstorms, they do not know how frequently these flashes take place or whether visible lightning always accompanies them.

Benjamin Franklin, one of America's beloved founding fathers, collected electricity from lightning in 1752 by standing outside in a thunderstorm holding a kite — or so the legend goes.

Eleven people are stranded in a thunderstorm at a hotel in the middle of a Psycho nowhere: a chauffer (Ed (John Cusack)-RRB- and his fading - actress passenger (Rebecca De Mornay); a family of three (John C. McGinley, Leila Kenzle, Bret Loehr); bickering newlyweds (Clea DuVall, William Lee Scott); a cop (Rhodes (Ray Liotta)-RRB- and his collar (Jake Busey); a hooker with a dream (Amanda Peet); and would - be Norman Bates Larry (John Hawkes), the motel proprietor.

«I was shaking like a Chihuahua who was terrified in a thunderstorm.»

While Liam did not go so far as to fly a kite in a thunderstorm, he did enroll in a four - year apprenticeship program as an electrician.

Martin Luther was caught at one time in a thunderstorm and at another in a controversy over indulgences.

As addictive as those honey mustard pretzels were, my body craved fresh fruit and refused to get caught up there in a thunderstorm!

You can, however, gain the ability to shake uncontrollably as you lie on the ground after running around holding a metal rod and a pickle jar in a thunderstorm.

Captain Walcott, what was that all about, he's about as good as a fart in a thunderstorm.

We're getting soaked in thunderstorms and having a heck of a time trying to convince T that you don't splash around in puddles on NY streets (staph infection just doesn't seem to be a compelling argument for a 3 year old).

The days seem long - but they truly rush past like a gust of wind in a thunderstorm and before you realize it they're 10 (or 18!!

No one will ever tell him he can't do something, however that also means I can't tell him that we can't go ride bikes in a thunderstorm.

Nearly 190 Americans died in thunderstorms, blizzards and floods last year, all of which cost the country tens of billions of dollars in damages.

The leading candidates for triggers have been solar ultraviolet rays, lightning in thunderstorms, and superhot impact plumes from meteorites.

These separate in a thunderstorm updraft to produce the electric field necessary to produce lightning.

The improvement will allow meteorologists to «see» rapidly evolving changes in thunderstorm circulations and, ultimately, to more quickly detect the changes that cause tornadoes.

In the simulation, this caused a plume of warm, moist air to rise from the lake at a top speed of 194 kilometres per hour, similar to the updraft speed in thunderstorms on Earth.

Around 90 percent of these strikes are likely triggered by the aircraft itself: In thunderstorm environments, a plane's electrically conductive exterior can act as a lightning rod, sparking a strike that could potentially damage the plane's outer structures and compromise its onboard electronics.

I will never complain about being caught in a thunderstorm with a cup of coffee!

Environmental graphics that looked impressive at midnight in a thunderstorm look washed out and dull on a clear, bright afternoon.

Surprisingly, the movie's more weirdly interiorized and not as expansively outgoing as the book would lead you to anticipate: the Inherent Vice of my dreams would have more sense of the jumbled archaeology of L.A. back then, more of the grunge - funk edifices, the leftover potluck from previous generations, the smog and the unexpected torrential rains, the feeling of reality bleeding and strobing like a cheap color TV picture in a thunderstorm.

Directed by James Whale in between Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, The Old Dark House (1932) injects a touch of camp and a jigger of sexual frankness into the gothic tropes of a creepy manor in a thunderstorm.

You might wonder who needs all that, then as you dash toward the van with an armload of groceries in a thunderstorm you think: «Oh, I do.»

He had found me first by accident in a thunderstorm when his horse had gone lame and my light through the trees had drawn him from the road.

Avoid walking in thunderstorms and if caught outside during a storm, find a building for shelter.

Dogs that continue to panic in thunderstorms may have to be reconditioned by creating an artificial storm with environmental recordings.

Great way to wrap up our trip, wonderful afternoon on boat even in thunderstorm could have stayed all night dancing and singing.

Some tracks will have you racing under nice sunny skies, while others will have you sweating like mad because you're trying to make hairpin turns in a thunderstorm that gradually gets more intense.

Even if what you want to do is race karts around the California coast in a thunderstorm.

Perhaps you'll get stuck in thunderstorm, step into a pond of water and end up electrocuted.

If commercial airliners were crashing in thunderstorms every year or two, resulting in the deaths of hundreds, would they be front - page news?

A few years ago my husband edited a scientific paper for some Chinese scientists who used a field mill to determine the actual charges in thunderstorms.

It's plausible that they could be, since warm, moist air is clearly increasing, and since both are key factors in thunderstorm formation.