Sentences with phrase «of no rain at»

An account of the day Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile: «There was ham salad for lunch, a shower of rain at 5.15 pm, a gusting wind, a false start, and then history... It is 60 years today since that iconic moment on the crunchy, uneven, gravel track at Iffley Road, Oxford... Bannister was 25, a medical student, and he was running in the annual Amateur Athletic Association v Oxford University Athletic Club match.»

We have had a good stretch of rain at night and sun during the day - what a gift to the garden and all of us too!

Hence, we will see more and more extended periods of no rain at all alternating with heavy rain.

In 2015 — 2016, «a bit of rain at just the right moment prevented the Southeast Asian peat forest fires from spreading as widely as they did two decades ago,» says climate scientist Guido van der Werf at Vrije University Amsterdam.

On our side the weather is always sunny and lately a drops of rain at night...

So, even when the forecast is for a 100 % chance of rain that day, the odds of rain at any particular hour are much lower.

Isla loved relaxing on the beach here while mummy and daddy caught up on their vitamin D shortage after all of the rain at the beginning of our trip!

Sadly Roger it's the same every year for 2 - 3 week period when the rivers all flush out after the start of the rain at the start of Bali's wet season.

Weather wise we have an overcast sky and the very possible chance of some rain at some point in time today.

Summer, from April till November, might see a few millimeters of rain at either end of the season but can expect to be completely dry from June till August.

Connie dropped more than 12 inches of rain at LaGuardia Airport.

These artificial rain storms allegedly covered 42 percent more land area, and the rain output was 137 percent more and produced 120,885 acre - feet of rain at a cost of less than $ 11 per acre - foot.

We LOVE Tybee and we love your was perfect, despite the 3 DAYS of rain at the beginning of the week, it turned out beautiful and we spent Thanksgiving running on the beach, grilling a turkey, and playing cards.

Not exact matches

A trained person can look at a series of radar images and see how the storm is moving and evolving, which areas are increasing or decreasing in intensity, and where the rain is headed.

At Kent Erickson's farm near Irma, Alta., (two hours southeast of Edmonton), about an inch of rain has been steadily falling every day in recent weeks, which has been helpful to his wheat crops.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The South African city has gone three years with hardly any rain, and is warning that it will be forced to turn off most of its taps at an unspecified date in 2019, leaving people to queue up outside for their water.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind at least 21 deaths and a swath of destruction.

Just two weeks ago, 13,000 tourists were stranded at the foot of the Matterhorn by heavy snow and rain.

There's plenty of snow and rain in the state as well as mCity, a 32 - acre simulated real - world urban environment at the University of Michigan used by automakers to test autonomous driving tech.

Panic, paranoia and fear of missing out on the next lucrative opportunity have led investors to rain down capital on any firm endeavoring to keep hackers at bay.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, churned across northern Caribbean islands on Wednesday with a catastrophic mix of fierce winds, surf and rain, en route to a possible Florida landfall at the weekend.

After meeting Mycoskie while working at Neiman Marcus, Samuel Bistrian launched Roma Boots in 2010, matching each sale of rain boots with the donation of a pair — along with school supplies — to poor children in 25 countries, including his native Romania.

As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.

Traders may have been loath to go into the weekend long the market at a time when President Donald Trump is threatening to rain bombs on Syria and Wall Street still doesn't know whether the U.S. and China are in the early days of a full - blown trade war.

, dozens of students walked outside in the rain and read the names of the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Like a washcloth through a wringer, the mountains squeeze more rain of the system — «at least on the order of 10 to 30 percent compared to moving over flat terrain,» he says.

When Hurricane Irma was advancing toward Florida in early September, weather officials were looking at a very scary scenario: an extremely powerful Category 4 or 5 storm hitting with 150 mph winds, flooding rains, and up to 15 feet of storm surge for coastal cities like Miami and Tampa.

As part of the ongoing green initiative at 401 Bay Centre we have added a self - sustaining rain forest ecosystem to our Cafe.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP)-- Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once - fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least two people and injured up to 14.

A powerful dust storm and rain swept parts of north and western India overnight, causing house collapses, toppling trees and leaving at least 91 people dead and more than 160 injured, officials said Thursday.

Making and marking history in low - income community struggle at the edge of Metro Vancouver On May 2nd 2017 a small group of homeless people and supporters marched from Maple Ridge's soon - to - close Rain City

At least 70 deaths have been reported along with many injuries and tens of thousands driven from their homes as more than 50 inches of rain caused catastrophic flooding, particularly in the Houston area.

As an example, warning someone that there is a less than 10 % chance of rain and suggesting they carry an umbrella is only going to get you laughed at.

Philip Larkin's «Church Going» comes to mind: Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much at a loss like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When churches fall completely out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent - free to rain and sheep.

Sometimes they align with a sort of poetic symmetry — the gentle rain at the funeral on September 11, the divorce papers arriving the day you get the cancer diagnosis.

Reconciliation is hard and humbling, this is true, and it's also startlingly beautiful as if we were hiking through the woods at the base of the mountain and then we suddenly come face - to - face with a powerful waterfall, raining down from the glaciers at the top, ready to quench our thirst.

[42] September, 1987 - Tropical Depression Nine brings at least 5 inches of rain to part of the state.

At first he reluctantly agreed that a tentative probe northward would solve the problem of Palestinian attacks from Soviet - built missiles that were raining death on northern Galilee.

In this is the basis of all proverbs: no matter how trite they sound, we recognize their truth once we have experienced them, known that «it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all,» or that «it never rains but it pours.»

We kept building our steeples higher until emissions streamed to thousands of miles away, but distant lakes spit up frogspawn & fish, so we built our steeples higher until — though at first we couldn't tell — emissions circled the globe to snow & rain

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

In order to flood the earth in 40 days, it would require that it rain over the entire earth at a rate of 5 inches per MINUTE.

The general, but clever theme of this classic Antonio Carlos Jobim song seems to simply be chromatic descent, as in the falling rains that are typical at the end of the Brazilian summer (March in the southern hemisphere).

I raced down my street on a mountain bike in the town of Pecan Grove, just southwest of Houston, as sheets of rain lashed at my marine - blue jacket.

The cattle who should, according to folklore, be lying down at the approach of rain, stand skeptical in a field of ragged green.

In fact most of us would be trying to scratch out a living on a farm with no modern equipment, hoping for enough rain to produce food for the next year, and dying at 35 yrs old from diseases now cured by drug companies.

We used to do motions for the rain falling down and the floods coming up, but nothing was as satisfying as dramatically clapping our hands together at the end of the song to simulate the total destruction of the foolish man's house.

The rain this spring, here as in much of the country, has been heavy and regular, and so the ditches are full to overflowing, and gleam like silver when viewed at an oblique slant.

With what fascination we boys used to watch it rain on that roof and to wonder at the far - sundered destinies of the drops which fell so near together!