Sentences with phrase «of snow avalanches»

Not exact matches

It's pretty obvious steer clear of places where avalanches happen, namely snow - capped mountains with steep slopes.

This Week: Bastoni had been included in Atalanta's squad for their Serie A match away to Juventus on Sunday evening, but the avalanche of snow that fell on Turin ensured that the game was postponed.

Mychajliw says there has been an avalanche of bills, for everything from food to rental of that construction equipment used to open many roads and haul snow away.

A testy Mayor Bloomberg fended off criticism of the city's failure to clear hundreds of snow - choked streets Tuesday as an avalanche of critics attacked his reputation as a supermanager.

The model could, for example, be used to anticipate avalanches, to determine the load on buildings caused by snow or calculate the traction of vehicles on snow - covered surfaces by predicting the behaviour of snow.

What's more, they also prevent erosion - borne humus loss as a result of downpours, snow gliding or avalanches.

They hope to disprove a stubborn and thus far unfounded assumption about avalanches: that the friction at the bottom of the slide is vigorous enough to heat the snow to the melting point.

Just hours before, two men had been in the avalanche's path installing radar equipment that clocks the speed of tumbling snow.

These snow pits, as they are called, are the basic tools of avalanche prediction.

The snow piling up outside right now is wild snow — light, dry, freshly fallen — the very stuff of dangerous avalanches.

While the snow portion or «dense flow» of an avalanche will typically stop when it hits an uphill grade, a powder cloud often rushes on, ushering mayhem up and over the top of the hill.

Through a process known as «squeeze expulsion,» particles big (you and your pack) and small (rocks, chunks of snow) knock into each other at the bottom of the avalanche, where the most impacts occur, and eventually get bumped up to the top.

Although the word «avalanche» often brings to mind billowing clouds of snow racing downhill to smother skiers and snowmobilers, another type of snow slump is on the rise: a slow - motion slide of thick, wet snow that despite its languid pace can pummel structures with devastating force.

Scientists understand the conditions that trigger these so - called glide avalanches, but a new analysis of field data stretching back to the 1930s suggests that conditions inside the snow masses — and therefore the forces and stresses that they impose on structures in their paths — have been woefully underestimated in some cases.

On 25 May 2014, a rain - on - snow - induced rock avalanche occurred in the West Salt Creek valley on the northern flank of Grand Mesa in western Colorado (United States).

The fatal incident was the result, some climbers said, of a so - called ice release and not a more typical snow avalanche.

Elsewhere in Norway and in other avalanche - prone areas, for example, towns erect a series of snow fences on slopes where enough snow might build up and tumble down as an avalanche.

Any enthusiast of winter sports dreads being overtaken by an avalanche, knowing that there is little chance of freeing oneself once buried beneath the mass of snow — snow that becomes hard as concrete until the buried person can no longer move as much as a finger.

While Prokop is studying avalanches, Aalberg, as a building engineer, is interested in understanding what kinds of forces the snow exerts before it slides away in an avalanche.

An avalanche is a slide of a large snow (or rock) mass down a mountainside, caused when a buildup of snow is released down a slope, and is one of the major dangers faced in the mountains in winter.

The proximity of the avalanche slope to the town, and the fact that people took pictures of the slope as the wind piled up snow on the slope and around buildings also helped provide very useful information, Prokop said.

«But the fracture, the crown height of the avalanche where it broke away from the snow, was up to 4 metres high.»

Snow from the avalanche filled the house, crushing windows and doors, but somehow Jochmann managed to end up on his feet so he could dig himself out, and save the rest of his family and his friend.

«The actual amount of snowfall is not that important in Svalbard, but due to heavy winds and a lot of fetch area, a lot of snow can be drifted into an avalanche release area,» he said.

Two other people in those houses were not so lucky, and died in the avalanche, buried under two metres of snow or more.

An avalanche probe showed that the underlying crevasse, hidden beneath 2 feet of snow, is?

It's been a deadly month for people caught in snow: Twin avalanches claimed the lives of at least 19 soldiers stationed in the Kashmir Valley last week.

A freezing rain, followed by an avalanche of four feet of snow and winds of 70 miles an hour, hit thousands of cattle still grazing on «summer pastures» at a time when the animals had not yet grown their protective winter coats and were ill prepared for the harsh conditions.

In terms of applications, accurately representing drifting snow in meteorological models is a key aspect of precisely assessing the mass balances of snow - covered regions — it's critical for predicting snow - depth variations, avalanche danger and even forecasting drifting snow.

An app developed at Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology makes it possible for skiers with smartphones to find people buried in the snow after an avalanche.

60 Minutes Sports, Season 2014, Episode 3: Watch how Jeremy Jones and his crew test the condition of snow before he rides in order to avoid the risk of avalanches.

For Katniss, it's important that the rebels not stare so long into the abyss that they become what they have beheld; when others callously plan to bury one of Snow's underground bases with an avalanche, it's Katniss who insists that one tunnel be left open so that civilians can escape and soldiers, if they choose, can surrender.

National Snow and Ice Data Center This comprehensive National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site, useful for teacher reference or for older students, includes information on snow and ice as indicators of climate change, snow avalanches, blizzards, historical snow data, the climate of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, glaciers, sea ice, ice sheets, ice shelves, and icebeSnow and Ice Data Center This comprehensive National Snow and Ice Data Center Web site, useful for teacher reference or for older students, includes information on snow and ice as indicators of climate change, snow avalanches, blizzards, historical snow data, the climate of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, glaciers, sea ice, ice sheets, ice shelves, and icebeSnow and Ice Data Center Web site, useful for teacher reference or for older students, includes information on snow and ice as indicators of climate change, snow avalanches, blizzards, historical snow data, the climate of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, glaciers, sea ice, ice sheets, ice shelves, and icebesnow and ice as indicators of climate change, snow avalanches, blizzards, historical snow data, the climate of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, glaciers, sea ice, ice sheets, ice shelves, and icebesnow avalanches, blizzards, historical snow data, the climate of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, glaciers, sea ice, ice sheets, ice shelves, and icebesnow data, the climate of the Arctic and Antarctic regions, glaciers, sea ice, ice sheets, ice shelves, and icebergs.

The range of activities and adventures the 40 students undertook was in itself amazing and included a week long Duke of Edinburgh snow - shoeing expedition, sea - kayaking amongst the fjords, avalanche awareness training on a self - supported week long winter trek, and a SES - funded community camp for 200 local children.

Kids will explore different types of snow formations, how to survive an avalanche, all about the snowflake enthusiast Wilson Bentley, and more.

Still, he works hard to clear the streets, and when an avalanche of rocks and snow traps the big dump truck, only the little snowplow can save him.

Initial snowflakes become an avalanche of snow balls that roll down the hill with increasing speed and gathering more snow in the process, i.e., magic of compounding is triggered and before you realize, dividend income starts to grow on its own and you will be able to cover your significant expenses.

The far more amazing thing was the development of the snow into the configuration that could allow for the avalanche.

Ski resorts across Austria and Switzerland say they are now struggling to cope after metres of snow combined with high winds and stormy conditions over the past 48 hours left runs blocked or in danger of avalanches.

There's an avalanche of choice, so wrap up warm and hit the snow.

The Avalanche Rescue Dog program is an integral part of the snow safety and avalanche program of the Fernie Professional Ski Patrol.

By artificially triggering snow instabilities on a regular basis, the risk of large - scale avalanches is reduced.

Years later, King Pen returned to the site of the avalanche to thank his teacher, but no evidence of Snow Wah or the cave was ever found — leaving many to wonder if the Yeti had ever existed at all.

The single player Journey Mode offers a sequence of 80 levels, taking place in a variety of themed locales, with each slightly tweaking the core gameplay - the snowy tundra features snow blocks, which cause avalanche - like chain reactions, whereas the cave sections have stalactites that can fall on enemies from above.

Avalanches blocked Richardson Highway while some ski places shut down due to lack of snow.

The Mount Rose Highway between Reno and Lake Tahoe has been closed by an avalanche that dropped 20 feet of snow on the road.

An avalanche search dog can sniff human scent through several feet of snow.

the avalanche studies tell us the layers formed in the snow are indicative of the type of avalanche expected, is there any reason not to believe that so called fractured multiyear ice won't behave in the same style (breaks laterally)?

If I'm guiding people in powder snow situation and there's an avalanche hazard, it's up to me to recognize that maybe I'm not going to give them the best ski day because of the hazard that's out there.

Snowed in by an avalanche of patent infringements, the group was «struggling to find associates to fill the work that's coming in.