Sentences with phrase «rain clouds towering»

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This is because terrestrial hurricanes form when an inflow of air along the ocean surface sops up moisture and rises in a halo of updrafts to create towering columns of rain clouds.

Cyclone Cylinders Huge cloud columns called hot towers may develop in the eyewall and in the bands of rain swirling outward from it.

The instrument on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) observed two extremely tall complexes of rain clouds called hot towers in the eyewall, a sign that Isaac was trying to strengthen.

We could see from horizon to horizon from the Buddha tower and watched the massive black cloud appearing in the far distance being driven by the wind towards us, which on reaching us poured rain into all the ingenious levels of gutters and channels designed to capture it as it passed over the city abandoned from lack of water.