Sentences with phrase «sheets of rain»

Though I can't see very far through the sheets of rain, I can hear some rather unpleasant sounds just beyond the beach and so decide to start moving.

When not shrouded by thick, gray fog and sheets of rain, it's possible to see as far west as the Aran Islands (the view from the top is one of the most iconic in the world).

Sometimes without a moment's notice, the sky will turn dark, thunder will rumble and sheets of rain will come pouring down.

In weather like we had on my drive — sheets of rain, standing water, little visibility — my focus was basically not sliding into a curb or another car and pranging a $ 180,000 worth of gorgeous Benz.

There were sheets of rain coming down.

Irma has been pummeling the Caribbean with gale - force winds, sheets of rain and widespread destruction.

Strong gusts of wind drive sheets of rain against the rhythmically moving windshield wipers as Brenda and I drive from Cambridge to Lexington.

Massive thunderheads are building to the east — we can see the dirty white sheets of rain beneath them — but here it is dead calm and hot.

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

I raced down my street on a mountain bike in the town of Pecan Grove, just southwest of Houston, as sheets of rain lashed at my marine - blue jacket.

From the printed digital images, the artist made freehand drawings of individual raindrops and used scanners and software to enlarge and map her drawings to create a suspended stainless steel element designed to mimic a sheet of rain.

Not exact matches

Not far away, Angel Fonesca had spent the night with his mother watching the wind bend the door to their home and wondering if it would break and worrying she'd be hurt by the winds and rain so strong that when he looked outside, all he could see was a sheet of white.

In Corpus Christi, the major city closest to the storm's center, wind whipped palm trees and stinging sheets of horizontal rain slapped against hotels and office buildings along the seawall as the storm made landfall.

It was pitch dark outside and the rain was pouring down in sheets as we drove home from the mall after our Groupon - inspired session with the Sears photographer for the Christmas photos of the tinies.

I remember pounding rain on a copper roof outside my window; sheets of water splattering as a city darkened and pealing thunder brought with it the full force of a summer rainstorm; then fierce pain.

In April at Bristol International Raceway, a little hellhole in the hills of eastern Tennessee, rain was coming down in sheets, drowning his last chance to qualify for that weekend's race.

Rain fell in sheets on the day of the fight and the police, in the interests of guaranteeing visibility for all, banned umbrellas.

On the other end of this camera, I'm wearing a parka covered with a plastic rain sheet.

At once genre movie and psychodrama, Nichols's film unfolds in a stretch of rural Ohio where a blue - collar husband and father (brilliantly played by Michael Shannon) finds himself suddenly plagued by visions of the rapture: strange clouds darkening the sky, acid rain sheeting down from the heavens, flocks of birds in panicked flight.

In the best film - noir manner, rain is sheeting down, and the camera of the great d.p. Roger Deakins (who has shot the film in wintry blues and blacks with an expressionist edge) pushes in slowly from behind.

It's still raining in Los Angeles — actually, now it looks like thick sheets of sludgy sleet are pounding down — and those dark synths swirl in Blade Runner 2049, a colossal piece of retro - futuristic gorgeousness.

Sunshine, cloud, rain and baby animals feature in this nature - focused bunch of rhymes and writing sheets.

11 Slides include: An opening quote based around depicting our everyday lives in music Lesson objective An introduction to Debussy, impressionism and the pentatonic scale Appraising task (4 short excerpts of Debussy's piano music) Composition task steps to success Images of the «calm» and «rapid» water motifs Examples of children's graphic scores which represent a journey of water Worksheets: «Calm» and «rapid» water motifs sheet music Supplementary writing sheet for the appraising task Audio files (MP3): 4 short excerpts of Debussy's piano music that portray the flow of water: The Sunken Cathedral Goldfish Reflections in the Water Gardens in the Rain Starter / appraising task: After a brief introduction to Debussy, his compositional style and the pentatonic scale, the children will get the opportunity to listen to four excerpts of Debussy's piano music.

Photo pack — Colourful A4 poster pack showing key things related to the water cycle, such as sun, snow, rain, ocean etc Water cycle diagram to label and colour Several versions of images showing the complete water cycle with varying levels of difficulty Extra large images to make a full water cycle display — eg A4 size sun, clouds, rain drops, etc Fact cards — half 4 size with facts about water and the water cycle — great for reading or display Key word cards — half A4 size showing all words relating to the water cycle Water cycle booklet to complete Presentation to make with cue cards for pupils to complete Draw a water cycle worksheet Acrostic poem to complete True or false quiz Sentence writing sheet to summarise topic understanding Mind map Weather types matching cards to use as memory card game World map to demonstrate size of oceans Long banner to head display Extra large patterned lettering to head wall display (patterned with raindrops) 3 patterned and plain display borders Writing booklet cover to keep pupils project work together Writing border with water cycle image to use for generic writing tasks Word search Sack tag to keep resources organised

For what it's worth, approaching the first hour, with the track fairly dry but the thin sun turning fuzzy behind the next lot of rain, the Pecarolo Peugeot is topping the time sheets, ahead of three Audis, three more Peugeots, a «real» Pescarolo and two Astons.

Sheets of freezing rain and inches of slush on the road slowed me the whole way.

But as the rain is coming down in wind - blown sheets on the chilly mountain two - lane of British Columbia's Highway 99, I'm plenty comfortable, feeling like a toasted biscuit with the heated seats and heated steering wheel both cranked up.

Clearing the urban sprawl and driving the CT 200h through twisting sections of tarmac in the sheeting rain brought home two truths about this car; for most drivers, the CT 200h will grip and go whatever the weather, whatever the road, with ease.

The tropical rain fell in drenching sheets, hammering the corrugated roof of the clinic building, roaring down the metal gutters, splashing on the ground in a torrent.

We only had about five inches of snow, but what made the roads so dangerous was the sheet of ice that developed on top of the snow from the freezing rain that fell afterwards.

The rain gods are kind in May: The occasional nighttime thunderstorm or early morning shower will likely find you abed at Chabil Mar, where soft sheets, gorgeous suite appointments and a tropical breakfast get all five of your senses off to a relaxing day.

The upper level of the suite has a king or queen - size bed with 100 % cotton sheets, down pillows and a plush comforter and an en - suite bathroom with two - person rain shower, Japanese - style soaking tub, Green Earth bamboo towels and organic bath products.

The new graphics system provided by the brand new Gepard3 Engine allowed developer Stormregion to create a large variety of different surfaces such as, for example, reflecting puddles which disappear over time, vehicles which become wet with rain or glistening sheets of ice.

Metallic casts of fish are rough with incinerated scales and flesh; objects are wrapped in clay sheets and fired, leaving a slight stain on the inside; copper tiles are weathered in the Scottish rain — Bock's thoughtful attention to place and materials crackles throughout the gallery's two floors.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

Unabated warming would also lead to «disruption of the monsoon, collapse of the Amazon rain forest and the Greenland ice sheet will meltdown,» he said.

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Regular dousings of 5 or 10 inches of rain onto the GIce Sheet might change things relatively rapidly.

I ran to the front of the procession and stopped the show and told people to run for cover so our paper machee» puppets wouldn't get ruined and the rain that was the white sheet came and poured on the field.

«We found that several vulnerable elements in Earth's climate system — like the Amazon and other big rain forests, like the great ice sheets that have so much sea level locked up in their ice — could be pushed toward abrupt or irreversible change if we go on toward 2100 with our business - as - usual increase in emissions of greenhouse gases,» he said.

Not only is this the earliest substantial melt on record, but the refreezing of the rain and meltwater soaking into the ice sheet sets it up for even more melting in the future.

Ice sheets, tornados, rain, snow etc, are fun to talk about, but none of that proves, nor disproves the theory of AGW.

«One minute, drab skies hurled galvanized sheets of freezing rain.

And we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the accuracy of the treble again here, which was never sharp, but always clear, able to reproduce sounds like the misting water from ocean currents, and sheets of pouring rain effortlessly.

Walking the neon - bathed streets of a futuristic Prague while rain pours in thick, heavy sheets, it's easy to lose yourself.

The last winter I spent in Tampa, after a-sprinkle of rain, when the ground was at below freezing (I used to wear a leather - bomber jacket) caused the surface of the roads to became a «sheet - of - ice» my vehicle was hit by another vehicle.