Sentences with phrase «longer than any storm»

Using assault rifles as an example, the human assault rifle can be fired longer than the storm rifle, the Covenant equivalent, but needs to be reloaded; the storm rifle never needs to be reloaded, but frequent breaks must be taken to avoid overheating.

Not exact matches

When it comes to preparing for the long term, women face a «perfect storm» financially: They are paid less than men are on average, typically have more gaps in employment, engage in more part - time employment and are often more risk - averse investors.

With La Nina appearing to emerge, the long - term outlook favors another busier - than - average storm season, Masters said.

To be specific, a military large enough to execute the current U.S. strategy and also to conduct numerous long - term humanitarian interventions would have to be considerably larger and better funded than the one we have now (our present army, for example, is only two - thirds the size it was during the Desert Storm offensive).

Yes it's wishful thinking but it's all part and parcel of what Arsenal are all about... And no, it's not satisfactory but a bit of sunshine after a long ass storm is better than ending up as a drowned rat??

And, as Siena's Steve Greenberg noted, they are in a position to know, since 86 percent of Long Islanders say they lost power during the storm — half of them for more than a week.

PSEG Long Island spent $ 9 million more than previously reported responding to a March storm that didn't deliver the expected wallop the utility had planned for, driving LIPA's annual storm costs over budget by 164 percent, the utility reported.

Ice caps are melting faster than predicted, violent storms are the new normal (ask Long Island residents who were flooded last week), oceans are warmer, wild fires consume thousands of acres in the far West, draught racks almost half of our heartland.

During the height of the storm, he said, average response times were as long as 55 minutes, a result in large part of unplowed streets causing more than 100 ambulances to get stuck in snow

This year's state money woes pale against the storm's aftermath, where more than 28,000 people on Long Island remain without power two weeks after Sandy hit.

As of 11:30 p.m. last night, more than 40,000 customers throughout Long Island had lost electricity as a result of the storm, PSEG Long Island said.

Now, first - of - their - kind field tests in the western Sahara reveal that the fields — generated when windblown sand grains rub together — loft desert dust much more effectively than previously recognized, creating larger and longer lasting storms than wind alone.

According to lightning records, storms that had absorbed the smoke zapped the ground with three times the usual number of positively charged lightning strokes, which typically last longer than negatively charged ones and can inflict worse damage.

«The long group waves can have wavelengths of several kilometers but their height is much lower than that of the individual storm waves.

Interestingly, the study shows that there is a long - term decline in heavy rainfall events (greater than 25 mm / h) and an associated increase in the number of smaller storms each delivering less rainfall.

While a few more storms have formed this season than initially expected, most stayed weak, and the ones that did strengthen didn't stay that way for long.

On Friday morning, the National Hurricane Center forecast indicated 50 percent or greater odds for tropical storm - force winds — surface winds greater than 39 mph — from Georgia to the eastern edge of Long Island.

She blows into the theater, drenched by the storm (seemingly a victim rather than a ruler of nature) just as Thomas is packing up from a long, fruitless day of auditions.

That's still a long way off the performance offered by the 419kW Ferrari 458 Italia that, thanks to its lighter weight, can storm to 100km / h in less than three seconds.

That was a long time ago — more than three decades — but just now, as she lay in bed listening to a winter storm raging outside, it seemed like yesterday.

Our waves are generated by the Trade Winds, which blow all season long and is different than many surf destinations that rely on a «storm season» from either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere.

But this human adaptation time scale may be longer than the time over which climate change affects storms, so that comparatively small changes in the frequency of generational events can have large social consequences.

Its clear that the struggle over Storm King played a powerful role in focusing attention on much more than the aesthetic character of the region; that the lasting legacy of this fight has been a sustained and long - lasting effort to clean up the Hudson River.

Some scientists, though, say there is no long - term evidence yet for declaring Katrina to have been a storm intensified by global warming, rather than a natural, extremely violent event.

It also shows that although floods and storm surges pose major threats, droughts are «misery in slow motion,» with costlier impacts that run deeper and longer than previously believed.

«In the North Atlantic region, where tropical cyclone records are longer and generally of better quality than elsewhere, power dissipation by tropical cyclones is highly correlated with sea surface temperature during hurricane season in the regions where storms typically develop»

Although the sea ice layer is more massive than the atmosphere, the clouds persist long enough in each storm episode to affect heat conduction through the snow and noticeably warm the sea ice while they are present.

The two storms arrived after tearing through Cuba (long a paragon of evacuation and return), damaging more than 440,000 homes and temporarily displacing more than 1 million people.

In one particularly violent storm in 2005, a squall line more than 1,000 miles long and 150 miles wide crossed the entire Amazon basin.

But this claim is discredited by University of Washington climatologist Cliff Mass, who after examining precipitation levels in the Gulf found that «[t] here is no evidence that global warming is influencing Texas coastal precipitation in the long term and little evidence that warmer than normal temperatures had any real impact on the precipitation intensity from this storm.»

While the storm lived up to its billing in New England and New York's Long Island, New York City and New Jersey were largely spared, with less than 10 ″ in New York City.

Coronal holes emit high - speed solar wind (HSS), capable to produce a series of moderate and weaker geomagnetic storms which continuously (recurrently) appear during periods longer than one solar rotation.

Thus, while Sandy's particular path could be considered a matter of chance, the warm temperatures beneath it allows the storm to be stronger, for longer, than it might otherwise have been.

In October 2017, a long, narrow stream of clouds, storms, and moisture stretched across the Pacific Ocean for more than a week.

We should be more worried about natural geomagnetic storms than about our insignificant effect on Earth's long - term climate.

But when that ocean is hot — and at the moment sea surface temperatures off the Northeast are five degrees higher than normal — a storm like Sandy can lurch north longer and stronger, drawing huge quantities of moisture into its clouds, and then dumping them ashore.

It turns out that the primary factor causing the extraordinary snow amounts with this particular storm was that the wind direction stayed constant for much longer than normal.

From acute, climate - related events like storms and floods to long - term shifts in weather patterns and sea level patterns, the impacts only become clear through an understanding of who is at risk, what the risks are to people rather than just to places and how these risks vary within and across populations.

But as the third in a two - week - long parade of extreme events, the presently intense storm pattern is starting to look more than a little outlandish.

Today is better than yesterday, but not as good as tomorrow, but it will be a long recovery coming back from these two storms.

The infamous Tornado Alley runs from Texas right up through Nebraska, and the storms that whip through wreak more havoc than the Blackshirts on a third - and - long.

The trip ended even less peacefully than it began, with the storm still stirring and resulting in an even longer flight delay.

As long as you can protect against most frost, it's better for wine quality to get ready to Harvest a few weeks early than to be «rained out» by storms in October and November.

The storm of foreclosures nationally may still be raging, but real estate professionals who take the time and develop the expertise to work with REOs could find themselves sailing smoothly through 2008 with more business — and better long - term relationships with clients and lenders — than they had before the REO rampage hit.

Islamorada's iconic Cheeca Lodge Resort & Spa resumed operations Friday, more than six months after Irma's storm surge devastated the resort's lobby and landscaping and destroyed a 525 - foot - long...