In October, fueled in part by record - warm waters boosted by one of the strongest El Niños on record, the eastern Pacific's Hurricane Patricia became the strongest hurricane ever measured in the Western Hemisphere, with
peak winds of 200 mph.
The category 5 storm is one of strongest on record in the Atlantic, with
peak winds of 185 miles per hour.
An EF2 tornado with estimated
peak winds of 110 mph moved through a path of 100 yards in Kent.
Not exact matches
However,
peak testing
of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere — the most potentially dangerous type
of nuclear testing, as nuclear fallout could easily be dispersed by
wind currents — occurred between 1961 to 1962 almost exclusively between the US and the USSR.
«Tesla Powerpack will charge using renewable energy from the Hornsdale
Wind Farm and then deliver electricity during
peak hours to help maintain the reliable operation
of South Australia's electrical infrastructure,» Tesla said in a press release.
We braved Pyramid's boulders, Barnard's clinkers, apogees
of our climbs in the
Wind Rivers, then turned our backs forever on those summits, Gannet, the tallest
peak in all Wyoming, The Highline Trail cleavered between the Temples.
If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender
winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain
peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains
of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers
of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...
But while David James and Edgar Davids are seemingly
winding down their careers outside
of the top flight, Craig Bellamy is arguably still at his
peak.
There's a natural arc
of active physical play; it starts with calmness, rises into activation, reaches a
peak of super-excitement and then
winds down.
An onward car journey to Sheffield — about the same distance — involves travelling over one
of two
winding, single - lane passes through the
Peak District, where lorries take tight bends at 10 mph.
An offshore
wind farm at the center
of a LIPA plan to address spiking electric demand on the South Fork will produce excess energy when it's needed least, and fall short
of a sharply expanding summer
peak load, a recent analysis found.
On a hot August morning, Mourad Gabriel steps out
of his pickup onto the gravel road that
winds up the side
of Rattlesnake
Peak.
Out
of 58 hurricanes, 56 showed a significant correlation between lightning activity and
wind speed, with
peak winds arriving 30 hours after the lightning on average.
Increasing value
of prediction One way to overcome energy output challenges is to anticipate
peaks and valleys in
wind electricity production.
Propelled by the force
of the eruption, gray and black particles
of ash, dust, and soot rose high into the atmosphere, some as high as twenty - five miles above the crumbling
peak of the mountain, where the
winds began to spread them in all directions.
On October 12, 1979, Typhoon Tip generated
peak wind speeds
of 300 kilometers per hour.
On the afternoon
of May 10, a storm with near - hurricane - force
winds engulfed the
peak and trapped 26 climbers on the slopes.
It was the first - ever measured EF - 5 tornado, the highest category on the Enhanced Fujita scale, and the most powerful since 1999, with an estimated
peak wind speed
of 205 miles per hour.
«For the size
of equipment, a modern
wind turbine — typically 250 feet across, blade tip to blade tip — can generate a megawatt and a half to 2 megawatts at
peak output,» he says.
Since air from North America could not have contaminated Cheeka
Peak with
winds blowing from the west, the next step was identifying the true source
of the pollutants.
The modeling indicated that KD cases in many Japanese locations, both in and out
of epidemic years,
peaked only when
winds originated from a densely - cultivated region in northeastern China characterized by vast cereal croplands.
Wind vortices blowing across the crater slowly formed a radial moat in the sediment, eventually leaving only the off - center Mount Sharp, a 3 - mile - high
peak similar in height to the rim
of the crater.
Peacock added: «Before becoming
wounded, injured or sick, many
of these young men and women considered themselves to be at the
peak of their physical and mental fitness, so an injury or illness can make them feel like their life has stopped.
Then the network will be able to handle up to 18,000 megawatts
of wind power at
peak output.
Scientists could use this theory to calculate
peak wind speed if they had numbers for the other metrics in the equation, which could come in handy because
wind speeds need to be measured at several points
of a storm, making it difficult to get an accurate reading.
Another
of Lomborgs persistent conceptual confusions relates to his proposition that grid - connected
wind power needs to be sized to meet the
peak demand.
Hurricanes, the largest and most damaging weather events,
peak in late autumn, when
winds coming off the coast
of West Africa meet thunderstorms clustered over the warm tropical ocean.
However, when these temperature gradients decrease in just the right way, a weakened «double
peak» jet stream arises with the strongest jet stream
winds located to the north and south
of the mid-latitudes.
The rate
of lightning strikes
peaked between 12 and 18 days after the arrival
of the solar
wind.
The intensity
of lightning
peaked about 30 hours before the hurricane
winds reached their maximum.
As summer is
winding down, the nights are starting to get chillier and our fresh produce is reaching its
peak, I'm feeling the need to soak up as much
of this time
of year as possible.
Beringia was by no means a tropical paradise for life, but the cold,
wind - swept desert was an important ecological refuge for plants and animals when glaciation
of the Earth was at its
peak.»
Winding beneath the world's highest
peaks and visiting some
of the most remote communities on earth, it passes through lush green valleys, arid high plateaus and incredible landscapes.
Miyazaki's movies left a mark on the last three decades that's almost impossible to overstate — you can see the influence
of Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke in Game
of Thrones and the Lord
of the Rings trilogy, and his My Neighbor Totoro has raised an entire generation
of budding anime aficionados — and with 2013's The
Wind Rises and The Tale
of the Princess Kaguya, both he and fellow visionary Isao Takahata finished their Ghibli careers at the
peak of their powers.
Up the Junction (1965), The End
of Arthur's Marriage (1965), In Two Minds (1967), (500) Days
of Summer (2009), Bananas (1971), Cathy Come Home (1966), The Rank and File (1971), 3 Clear Sundays (1965), The Big Flame (1969), Poor Cow (1967), Kes (1969), The Gamekeeper (1980), Riff - Raff (1991), Raining Stones (1993), Midnight in Paris (2011), Blackjack (1979), Looks and Smiles (1981), Family Life (1971), Fatherland (1986), Hidden Agenda (1990), Ladybird Ladybird (1994), McLibel (Extended Edition)(2005), Land and Freedom (1995), Carla's Song (1996), My Name Is Joe (1998), Bread and Roses (2000), The Navigators (2001), Sweet Sixteen (2002), Ae Fond Kiss (2004), The
Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), Route Irish (2010), The Angel's Share (2012), Jimmy's Hall (2014), The Spirit
of ’45 (2013), It's a Free World... (2007), I, Daniel Blake (2016), Raghs Dar Ghobar (Dancing in the Dust)(2003), Shar - Re Ziba (Beautiful City)(2004), Chaharshanbe - Soori (Fireworks Wednesday)(2006), Trainspotting (1996), About Elly (2009), A Separation (2011), Looking For Eric (2009), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Border Radio (1987), Gas Food Lodging (1992), Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)(1993), Grace
of My Heart (1996), Four Rooms (1995), Things Behind the Sun (2001), Mystery Girl (A Crush On You)(2011), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Beaches (1988), The Cabin in the Woods (2011), Ring
of Fire (2013), Pitch Perfect 2 (2015), Dog Soldiers (2002), The Descent (2005), Doomsday (2008), Centurion (2010), Moana (2016), Speed Racer (2008), Good Night and Good Luck (2005), Hollywood Boulevard (1976), Piranha (1978), Rock»n' Roll High School (1979), For the Love
of Spock (2016), The Howling (1981), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), Gremlins (1984), The» Burbs (1989), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Matinee (1993), The Second Civil War (1997), Small Soldiers (1998), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), Finding Dory (2016), Burying the Ex (2014), The Warlord: Battle For the Galaxy (The Osiris Chronicles)(1998), The Hole (2011), Zootopia (2016), Army
of Darkness (1992), Madagascar (2005), Patrick (1978), Harry Potter and the Goblet
of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order
of the Phoenix (2007), Long Weekend (1978), Harlequin (1980), Road Games (1981), Keanu (2016), Razorback (1984), Suicide Squad (2016), Snapshot (One More Minute)(1979), Treasure
of the Yankee Zephyr (1981), Fortress (1985), Link (1986) Frog Dreaming (The Quest)(1986), Windrider (1986), Visitors (2003), Storm Warning (2007), Long Weekend (2008), Nine Miles Down (2009), Not Quite Hollywood (2008), Strangers With Candy (2005), Twin
Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), Rushmore (1998), Bottle Rocket (1996), Moulin Rouge!
«BLUE VALENTINE» Two
peak - form stars and an elegant shuffle structure make raw
wounds out
of familiar domestic politics.
Part IV: Review
of Tumbledown, Listener Question, box office and the Home Cinema Round - up: Spectre, Crimson
Peak, Love the Coopers, Grandma, 99 Homes, A Mighty
Wind on Blu - ray (10:50)
Inserting the disc cues trailers for Bambi: Special Edition, the trio
of freshly - released Studio Ghiblis (Porco Rosso, Nausicaä
of the Valley
of the
Wind, and The Cat Returns), and The Incredibles — you can also access these trailers through a «Sneak
Peaks» option off the main menu.
In a delightful touch there are hundreds
of Koroks -
Wind Waker's forest people - hiding across the world, many on lonely
peaks who exist just to let you know that yes, Nintendo knew you wouldn't be able to resist climbing up.
Or you can grab it by the scruff,
wind the revs up to the engine's
peak and indulge in the 488's magnificently wide operating window, feeding off the steering and seat -
of - your - pants communication feeds.
Instead
of tobogganing down the last dozen hairpins as we used to after church on Sunday, the Jeep carved up the
winding Zillertaler Höhenstrasse, which eventually brushes the snow - capped
peaks that stretch all the way from Schwendberg to Kaltenbach.
We stick to route 34, which
winds its way through the park and leaves us in awe as we look out
of the broad windshield at gorgeous 12,000 - foot
peaks.
But when you're driving the Explorer with its turbo - four on one
of those
winding roads that lead to the campground, lake, or trailhead, this engine struggles a bit, caught between relatively high rpm
peaks for power and torque and only six speeds to get there.
But how surprising is that in any entry - level car that requires
winding its engine to 6,000 rpm to make its
peak power
of 125 horsepower?
While whopping gobs
of torque aren't the engine's strong suit (it
peaks at 150 lb - ft), it
winds up very nicely.
With its rev happy nature, you'll likely find yourself often rapping the boxer to those
peak limits — because
of how damn fun this thing is to
wind up.
Winding climbs and descents
peaked at over 6000 feet
of elevation and too many turns to count.
The
wind turned the river into
peaks and humps, which jostled [Pearl], which slopped her about; she couldn't keep a hold
of anything... Things she loved about the river: its endlessness.
It
peaks and dips, like shifting sand dunes — and the
winds of change have been strong in the past 10 years on all angles.
We've been in a «stagnant» market since the
peak in 1999/2000 and most
of these kinds
of markets cycle up and down, but
wind up where they started anywhere from 10 to 25 years later.