Sentences with phrase «meter of water on»

The storm dropped about 1.3 meters of water on Houston and its surrounding areas in August.

The HMAS Perth lies in 35 meters of water on a sandy bottom.

Not exact matches

There's a meter on the wall that shows you how much time you have left, so you won't have to worry about running out of water while you're in the middle of shampooing.

St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

On August 8, 1975, the dam collapsed and sent a wall of water nearly 20 feet (6 meters) high and 7.5 miles wide (12 kilometers) downriver, according to a summary of a chapter in the book «The River Dragon Has Come!»

It is producing a «Submaran»: an unmanned device that can float on the surface of the ocean and also drive 200 meters under the water to monitor pipelines, currents, temperature or whatever a customer might want.

Neff's research helps us understand the health of massive glaciers with behavior we still don't fully understand but that lock up enough water to drive up global sea levels on the order of meters, not inches.

Sub-monitoring of electricity using CT (Current Transducer) devices connected to data - loggers provides accurate data on all electricity usage, while water meters log every litre of water at 30 second intervals, providing highly precise readings.

With a focus on constant improvement of practices and adoption of the latest farming and winemaking technologies, McManis Family Vineyards» water use efficiency measures in the vineyard include the use of soil moisture sensors, flow meters and distribution uniformity tests; while their winery recycles water and averages one gallon of water to produce one gallon of wine.

As nearly typical as any member of the 5.5 - meter class can be, Ernie Fay's former boat Sabre, designed by A. F. (Bill) Luders, measures 33 feet overall, 23 feet on the water, has a beam of 6 feet 6 inches and draws 4 feet 6 inches.

Gidon Ariel left this comment on my post about the water tax: My bill is closer to 70 koob (cubic meters) for a family of seven for 2 months!

Local governments are seeing millions of dollars in revenue flushed away because of water loss, inaccurate meters or improper billing, a new comptroller's report on municipal water systems shows.

The LSPWC boss, who recalled that the initial drainage system with a width of 0.6 meters was inadequate to contain the flow of flood water, said the agency had to reconstruct it to a size of 1.2 meters after which massive rehabilitation work commenced on the road.

Radar measurements and models of Earthly glacial ice flows led researchers to conclude that the glaciers spotted on Mars from orbiters contain nearly 150 billion cubic meters of water.

It will shut off automatically if it runs low on water, and can humidify a range of 20 square meters.

But one afternoon, the whales all converged on one place where there was a really high density of prey — a 40 - meter - thick swath of water with 107 grams of krill per cubic meter, as opposed to the average density of 66 grams per cubic meter, Cade reported at the meeting.

Scientists have been keeping a wary eye on Greenland's ice sheet, which holds in its frozen waters the equivalent of 7.4 meters of sea level rise.

On the other hand, similar light conditions are expected underwater, since only blue - green light can penetrate meters of water.

UTMB officials said that although none of the buildings on campus suffered any structural damage, many were inundated with 1 to 1.3 meters of water.

Nearly a decade ago, Steve Elgar of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) set up a series of floating pressure gauges, sonar devices and water velocity meters on a beach in Duck, N.C., in an attempt to determine what changes in wave action bring sand back onshore.

For two months he measured the changing currents and sand distribution from a point on the shoreline out to a water depth of five meters.

But last year, Arrigo and his team noted a proliferation of pools of water, known as melt ponds, on the surface of the Chukchi Sea ice, which were also a few meters thinner than in past years.

During two different research expeditions, in the mid - to late springs of 2010 and 2012, the AUV — which resembles a 2 - meter - long bunk bed with twin hulls stacked on top of one another — traveled back and forth through several different Southern Ocean waters in a lawn mower — like pattern at depths of 20 to 30 meters under the ice to collect a 3D survey of the topography of the sea ice's underbelly.

And so it was, when I reported on January 21 that fish were found living in an isolated corner of the ocean beneath 740 meters of ice in Antarctica: People asked what this might mean for finding life on distant worlds such as Europa, a moon of Jupiter that very likely harbors an ocean of liquid water beneath a crust of ice.

Water flows through the 40 - inch (1 meter) wide mouth of a giant manta and over the ray's gill arches, the white triangular parts running across the bottom and top of its mouth, five on each side.

During a trawl for sea creatures on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean last month, scientists on the RV Helmer Hansson in Rijpfjorden on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, retrieved a 7 - meter - long log infested with living shipworms on the sea floor under 250 meters of water.

Cross-cutting relationships are observed at the valley - scale, indicating multiple episodes of water level fall and rise, each well over 50 meters, a similar scale to eustatic sea level changes on Earth.

«Waves lose energy once you get to get to less than half a wavelength depth — typically deep swell waves are 100 to 140 meters (330 to 460 feet) in wavelength — hence why we focus on being out above 50 to 70 meters (165 to 230 feet) of water,» Carcas says.

Waters, safe and dry in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and VanLandingham, who escaped to Galveston, Texas, before his own house took on a meter of water, didn't know each other.

Slower, less energetic ones indicate the amount of hydrogen lurking within a meter of the surface, and on the moon, hydrogen is a proxy for water.

Over the years, her team has shown that it's responsible for 5 % of global photosynthesis and depends on an estimated 80,000 genes distributed among hundreds of strains to thrive in nutrient - poor waters ranging from the sea surface to 200 meters down.

This deep water tunnel — a holding tank on steroids — comprises two legs roughly 300 feet (90 meters) belowground that can hold nearly 500 million gallons (1.9 billion liters) of sewage and storm water during a downpour.

On Saturday, the drill had encountered water at about 3766 meters depth, but the team determined that it was a water lens sitting above the surface of the lake rather than the lake itself.

Because so much water was stored on land as ice sheets, sea levels were likely 120 meters lower than today, exposing the bottom of what is now the English Channel.

In 1998, a Russian - French - U.S. team drilled to within 100 meters of the surface before stopping to avoid contaminating what one researcher calls «the last pristine water on Earth.»

So Steven Haddock, a biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California, and colleagues were perplexed to find glowing red spots on the tentacles of siphonophores pulled from waters as deep as 2300 meters off the coast of Monterey, California.

Given at least nine meters (roughly 30 feet) of water on the planet, photosynthetic microbes (including mats of algae, cyanobacteria, and other photosynthetic bacteria) and plant - like protoctists (such as floating seaweed or kelp forests attached to the seafloor) could be protected from «planet - scalding» ultraviolet flares produced by young red dwarf stars, according to Victoria Meadows of Caltech, principal investigator at the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

Water Emissions - In September of 2002, a team of astronomers (including Cristiano Cosmovici of the Institute for Cosmic and Planetary Science) announced at the Second European Workshop on Exo / Astrobiology that they had detected water «maser» emissions from three of 17 star systems suspected of hosting planets, including Upsilon Andromedae, using the 32 - meter Medicina radio telescope near BolWater Emissions - In September of 2002, a team of astronomers (including Cristiano Cosmovici of the Institute for Cosmic and Planetary Science) announced at the Second European Workshop on Exo / Astrobiology that they had detected water «maser» emissions from three of 17 star systems suspected of hosting planets, including Upsilon Andromedae, using the 32 - meter Medicina radio telescope near Bolwater «maser» emissions from three of 17 star systems suspected of hosting planets, including Upsilon Andromedae, using the 32 - meter Medicina radio telescope near Bologna.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

«The surface of Mars is so cold — on average -70 ° to -100 °C -LSB--94 °F to -148 °F]-- that any water within 2 or 3 kilometers of the surface, never mind a meter or two, should be permanently frozen, they noted.»

Well, between the distilled water I started now making at home a week ago (yes, Alain again, haha), and the colloidal silver, which I've been using for 3 days only and been on a regiment of one ounce 4 times daily (according to my TDS meter is 5 ppm, but Alain's calculations put it at 34 ppm, yet only a very light hue of yellow after an hour batch at the lowest amperage setting in 250 ml of distilled water), I feel really, really GREAT!!

Some distilled water, even though it reads 000 on the TDS meter, still has impurities that can affect the quality of the CS, making it turn yellow.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

But the ones that explode on the ground erase everything: they send out streamers of fire that race across the ground like electric snakes; they light up the donkeys by the water troughs and make their shadows a hundred meters long.

That means you can immerse your tolino into fresh water for up to 30 minutes at a depth of 1 meter — and of course you can go right on reading afterwards!

To check for hidden leaks, look at the reading on your water meter, then leave the house so that no - one uses water for a couple of hours.

If you're on a meter and on certain benefits, and either have three or more children living in the house under the age of 19 or someone in the household with a medical condition needing lots of water, you could get help from the WaterSure scheme.

Savings vary by supplier and usage, but the Energy Saving Trust estimates that replacing an inefficient shower head with a water efficient one could save a family of four # 75 on their gas bill and about # 120 on their water bill (if metered).

The plume of water drops some 80 feet / 24 meters from the top of a granite cliff to a sandy cove below (not even footprints on the sand mar the perfection, as this beach is closed to the public).

Baan Thai Spa that rises 120 meters up on a cliff Complimentary non-motorized water sports 7 swimming pools (five of different colors) including one Infinity edge pool perched on the cliff overlooking the sea and one Infinity edge pool by the beach «Planet Trekkers» kids club centre Fully equipped fitness centre (open 24 hours daily) Connected to the fascinating archipelago of Angthong National Marine Park and the incredible diving sites of Koh Tao for exploration and discovery.