Sentences with phrase «moist air fueling»

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Most of the moisture in the area comes from the east, in snowstorms fueled by moist air rising from the Amazon Basin.

This process is fed by the pressure differential which induces fuel, moist air from the same and higher pressure level and dry air from the lower pressure level.

The second storm, fueled by a powerful, long - duration atmospheric river funneling warm and moist air from southeast of Hawaii, hit central and northern California beginning late on January 7 and pushed major rivers past flood stage levels and drove extreme gusts, leading to power outages as well as rock and mudslides.

Hurricanes and typhoons work like «giant engines that use warm, moist air as fuel.»