Sentences with phrase «powerful gusts»

We were visiting family in Arizona, where it rains maybe a few times a year, and woke up to buckets of water falling from the sky and powerful gusts of wind.

Then My Other picked himself up and whipped his tiny bones in the direction of the powerful gusts.

Israel has powerful gusts in the southern deserts and the northern highlands that could be tapped for power generation.

It is generally steady and strong in spring, but in summer it occasionally twists into a convection storm — a small, circular weather system that can direct brief but powerful gusts at the ground.

Steady 80 mile - per - hour winds (with even more powerful gusts) pummeled visitors at the terminal moraine lake at the foot of the Grey Glacier.

Speaking of instrument's a major injury concern at the TE position still lingers for the Redskins: they call him Jordan Reed because he blows and a powerful gust of wind could break him.

Ten or twenty steps later, it softened and remained quiet once again, coiling as a jack - in - the - box for its next powerful gust.

Not exact matches

The gusts aren't really powerful enough to have much effect on deep throws, which figure heavily into the Ravens» offense to rookie wide receiver Torrey Smith from big - armed Joe Flacco.

Battered by two intensely powerful storms with sustained wind gusts of more than 150 miles per hour last year — first by Hurricane Irma and then by Hurricane Maria — Puerto Rico suffered widespread and catastrophic damage to its urban infrastructure.

Video Powerful blizzard delivers 55 mph gusts in Olympics.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Midway through the 1986 model year, though, a 124 - mph gust of fresh wind blew into dealers — a hopped - up engine made the Scirocco 16V the fastest and most powerful Volkswagen ever.

In Gust's upcoming Blue Reflection, The Common is a «mythical parallel dimension» where human troubles lie and its champions get powerful magical abilities.

The most notable of these is blink, which lets you teleport short distances and find different routes to your objectives, but there are other offensive options, like a powerful wind gust, the ability to possess rats or enemies, and the chance to slow down time.

The recent paintings by Paul Pascarella in «New Moon West» are inspired by the dynamic energy and powerful forces observed in nature — the rising sun, gusting winds, crashing waves and swirling storms.

Battered by two intensely powerful storms with sustained wind gusts of more than 150 miles per hour last year — first by Hurricane Irma and then by Hurricane Maria — Puerto Rico suffered widespread and catastrophic damage to its urban infrastructure.

AIMS Scientist - in - charge in Western Australia Luke Smith said cyclone Fayâ $ ™ s powerful wind gusts uprooted many large coral colonies, and tore huge reef boulders up to five metres in diameter from the reefâ $ ™ s edge, and thrust them up the slope onto the reef flat.

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.

According to meteorologist Kachelmann, first came heavy snowfall, then powerful winds with gusts of up to 200 km / hr followed.

Designers compensate for the energy loss by making bigger blades and taller towers, to suck up more of the available wind and at heights where gusts are more powerful.