Sentences with phrase «of soaking rain»

Not exact matches

That cost, combined with viral images of rain - soaked scenes more suited for Glastonbury, seemed like enough to throw the young festival permanently off course.

But existing models of water flows don't provide the full range of possible outcomes: «A 50 - year rain can produce a 100 - year flood if it falls on a watershed that's already soaked or on snowpack or if it coincides with a storm surge.»

It's the smell of dead leaves after a soaking rain.

In praise of wide open windows and green trees, of rain soaked ground and early bedtimes for everyone, of full bookshelves and white jammies with the little feet for the baby, of smudged glasses sliding down a boy's nose and ringlets and a pixie who can't stop plotting and a baby who takes us all in.

I sit in the rain - soaked school - drop - off lane with a line full of other, ordinary people in cars.

Of course in this context the word met means something different from a kick or a soaking in the rain.

The limin» continued in full force on Sunday, when a caravan of cars converged on Farley Hill and most of the crew from Oistins was joined by Jasmine and Frank, Norman the jokester and Dennis for a rain - soaked picnic.

We walked along the beach, where he chased the waves a little too closely and ended up with soaking wet jeans; visited the Page Museum, where we watched volunteers meticulously dust off newly discovered fossils; stopped for dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, where I nearly single - handedly polished off an entire Hula Pie ice cream dessert by myself; meandered out along a pier, where a practically blind seagull almost flew straight into my guy's head; and drove through the rain to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, where we chuckled at the seals in the synchronized swimming routine.

Between that Monday and the next when we returned to DC, we had plenty of rain but also plenty of fun, soaking in the drizzles and the vibes and charm of the Big Apple.

During the day I saw the sheets of rain fall from the sky, blurring my vision and soaking my spirit.

It's raining down like a tropical fucking storm and if you ain't right, that storm of envy, temptation, greed, spotlight, sex, booze and drugs is got ta batter your poor little ass umbrella until your ass is soaked wet.»

On the last lap of the rain - soaked 2007 Japanese GP, Felipe Massa was up behind Robert Kubica and trying everything to get past.

Speaking of a run at the playoffs, the Chiefs have won five in a row after starting the season 1 - 5, and look like one of the best teams in the league right now after knocking off the Bills in rain - soaked Kansas City.

While we expect rain showers and storms to fall during the weekend not every moment of every day is soaking wet.

It's makes me both sad and angry that a player of Eddie's abilty has had his career so adversely affected by a low life thug... a player who having arrived on the heels of TH's departure had much to prove, who as each game went by began to show his ability, class and his incisiveness in front of goal... one of the quotes that still rings clear after his 2 goals against the bolton thugs on that memorable rain soaked night in the Carling Cup was «He just doesn't miss does he», and it was getting to the stage where everyone who watches prem football, was sitting up and taking notice of this small, shy, brilliant striker — as each game went by his confidence and stature were growing, you could see him blossoming in front of the supporters...... and he was beginning to form a real strike partnership with Bendtner who also seemed to becoming more of a pivotal player with Eddie in the side....

«PARIS — Ligue 1 title favourites Paris Saint - Germain returned to the top of the table after overwhelming third - bottom Ajaccio 4 - 1 at a rain - soaked Parc des Princes on Sunday.»

I'm sitting under an overhang in an outdoor café, the rain blowing in sideways and soaking the bottom of my skirt as an Amy Winehouse album plays on repeat and I try to digest all that we've seen over the past week.

The garden is getting a good long soaking today with the rain that's falling, and we're getting a lovely little break from the work of it too.

I'm sitting under an overhang in an outdoor café, the rain blowing in sideways and soaking the bottom of my skirt as -LSB-...]

For Ted's Electric Service in Syracuse, the storm brought winds strong enough to rip off the roof, and rain constant enough to soak the inside of the building.

Sean Ryan [email protected] The rain soaking through the walls of the Washington Island performing arts center last August forced the choir and audience to abandon the show before the night's closing number, «From Heaven on High.»

But as we move [d] down the coast and we also start [ed] to go under these islands which were filled with young penguin chicks — penguins are all kind of born in November, they leave the nest in the first week of February or so and when we were seeing them in January, they were still covered by down and this was during that kind of torrential rain period that we saw, and as a result these penguin chicks which were [a] couple months old covered in down are getting soaked by cold rain during the day and then at night time the temperature drops down into the teens and they are freezing and dying.

Results from one of Huygens's chemical sniffers bolstered the idea that the probe landed on soil that had recently been soaked with methane dew or rain.

61 Ancient Rain Settles Sierra's Age Geologists settled a dispute over the age of the Sierra Nevada range by studying gravel that was soaked with ancient rainwater...

The denizens of sunny Miami tolerate balmy days better than rain - soaked Seattleites, even if the heat surges to lower temperatures in the Pacific Northwest.

One big reason the sea level dropped for so long: Only 6 % of the rainfall in Australia runs directly back to the sea, and the rest runs inland to lowlands (image depicts a normally dry area in eastern Australia flooded by rains in late November 2011) where it either soaks into the ground or evaporates back into the atmosphere — a process that returns moisture to the sea far more slowly than the rivers draining other continents do.

This is almost as bad for farmers as drought, since the rain falls on parched ground with extra force, and much of it runs off without soaking into the ground, and it causes damage to boot by washing away soil and plants.

Moreover, with up to 60 entrances to each one's underground burrows, they turn parts of the landscape into a «sponge» that soaks up monsoon rains and slows runoff, helping to keep rivers full year - round.

Compared to a conventional patch of lawn, a rain garden allows about 30 percent more water to soak into the ground, keeping plants green and conserving water along the way.

It was given the name «pluvialis,» translatable to «rainy» from Latin, to denote the incredibly rain - soaked habitat it lives in (> 8 meters of rain yearly), and because it was found calling only after heavy rains.

Footnote: In those days of old the «corn» (grain) stood in the fields in sheaves'til the rain soaked & washed them clean & germination began.

This keeps the rain from dripping down and soaking through the back of your pants.

And yes, I was also soaking up the sun on Saturday due to the days and days of clouds and rain.

Conjuring images of a rain - soaked Audrey Hepburn in «Breakfast at Tiffany's», they are the byword for old school glamour.

I seriously have gotten SOAKED trying to get a set of blog pics in before the rain started.

Spent my morning in bed with a cup of tea and a book, listening to the pouring rain against the window and let's just say it took a lot of willpower to abandon my cozy pillow fortress to face the soaking wet streets.

I can wear light scarves but they will be soaked with rain coming out of our gray, dark sky.

When it's raining outside and the chill feels like it might soak down to your bones, what could be more appealing than a warm cafe, full of convivial conversation?

She turns these examples of rage on the page into playful performance art, as when her ultra-professional news anchor trades technology vs. humanity arguments with a rain - soaked field reporter — played by guess who?

The sequence is forbiddingly dark, rain - soaked, terror - streaked — a fleeting nightmare that recaps the pace and the charge of the Philadelphia scenes.

Rainer Klausmann, Akin's regular cinematographer, creates a rain - soaked atmosphere of suspense set in a world that feels real, not one simply designed to trigger emotions.

Living in a rain - soaked Swansea, in what appear to be the eighties, Oliver is in love with Jordana (Paige); almost to his surprise they start going out, their relationship based on a mutual love of setting fires.

Going off of the trailer, Ben Affleck's new thriller The Accountant seems to be starting from a potentially laughable premise — a guy uses his autism to become the world's most dangerous money launderer / killer of men, like a blood - soaked Rain Man — and taking it intensely seriously.

Marked by impressive, rain - soaked cinematography, and an impish slapstick - y sense of humor (not unlike the country's mega hit

X-Men stars James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender came face - to - face with their older counterparts Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen at the rain - soaked UK premiere of their new superhero film.

Early in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), after an unpleasant encounter with a hooded creature known as a dementor, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) looks through the window of the Hogwarts Express, his reflection projected against the rain - soaked night.

Godzilla's cinematography and production design can't even match the pastel appeal of ID4's images: almost every shot is a rain - soaked disappointment.

A mid-section sequence set on the rain - soaked Imperial outpost of Eadu explores this thematic element with visual and emotional bravado; in a film of sublimely constructed passages, it may be the most breathtaking.

The Ireland that Eilis leaves behind isn't some squalid, rain - soaked backwater; rather, it's a dull but well - kept country town, insidious only in the lack of opportunities it represents.

Mitchell Crow plays with his dog on what remains of 28,000 pounds of donated used clothes near Loneman, S.D. Unclaimed, the rain - soaked handouts began to go moldy during the summer.