Sentences with phrase «warm patch of»

While they do love a good cuddle they also enjoy spending time exploring on their own and hanging out in a warm patch of sun.

He's already a fearsome actor with a warm patch of humanity, and no one else could have played the role so completely.

El Niño, marked by a warm patch of water in the eastern tropical Pacific, influences a number of weather patterns around the world.

Like Hurricane Katrina that drowned New Orleans, it could have hit an especially warm patch of water at just the wrong time, Masters notes.

So he found a nice, warm patch of grass in the sun, and lay down to sleep.

Large storms and abnormally warm patches of ocean can happen even without anthropogenic climate change.

But from the standpoint of directly warming the patches of overlying ocean, rather than the secondary effect of CO2 emissions.

What percentage N2 is the atmosphere between the aperture of your IR camera and the object you are taking a photo of (even if it is just a warmer patch of N2)?

Not exact matches

Like covering the clutch of eggs with feathers to protect them while she takes one of her brief breaks.And the «brood patch» of down that she plucked from her own belly to keep the eggs warmer (through direct contact with her skin).

We've hit a patch of chilly days here lately and it had me wondering what mothers in cold climates do to keep their infants warm on winter walks.

Appropriate for: 2 to 6 months Skills developed: Gross motor, sense of touch, body awareness What you'll need: A fairly large blanket On a warm day, take your baby to the park or out into your backyard and spread a blanket on a patch of grass or soft ground (or simply do this in your home).

It was pretty early before it had truly gotten warm, but he must have gone romping around in a huge patch of it in our back yard woods because the rash was UP AND DOWN his legs.

It makes use of steam to evenly and thoroughly warm up the bottles, preventing any hot patches which may result in a burn for your child.

You can drop prescription pills, liquid medication or even a patch into the purple bag and by adding just a little bit of warm water the contents dissolve in fifteen minutes.

Fox, two urban planners, Chris Tepper and Paul Kelterborn, and government relations specialist Ethan Geto won warm shout - outs for their dogged efforts to realize their vision in a patch of urban redevelopment for which there were many competing ideas.

Higher sea surface temperatures led to a huge patch of warm water, dubbed «The Blob,» that appeared in the northern Pacific Ocean more than two years ago.

While the addition of iron to forest - size patches of ocean might help mitigate global warming, it is even more important that we use it to mitigate the decline in the ocean's primary productivity.

If Ceres is acting like a comet, it must have ice patches that can survive for a long time before being heated by the sun as it moves into a warmer part of its orbit.

Though there were no temperature sensors on the leg, he says the surface of the ice patch was warmed by direct sunlight, whereas the lander leg was in shadow.

Areas of the wall with a cooler temperature show up blue, while red light shines on patches that register as warmer.

However, two warm stimuli placed right next to a cold object can dilute the amount of cold information flowing from a patch of skin.

The dilution of a cold stimulus by a warm one implies that the different signals are blended over a broad patch of skin — a phenomenon known as spatial summation.

The second, less familiar pattern involves a more isolated, extensive patch of warmer water in the central Pacific.

The Arctic has transformed over the last five years into a region that's warmer and greener, with larger patches of open water as sea ice recedes.

The areas that appeared bright in the radio images but dark in the laser observations correspond to warmer patches on Mercury, where ice would be stable only if buried under a 10 - centimetre - thick layer of other material.

Habib explains that it would have been able to cross broad stretches of ocean by taking advantage of thermals (rising columns of air created over warmer - than - normal patches of ocean) to gain altitude, then gliding until it reached the next thermal.

And since there is perhaps no better feeling than tucking into a warm bowl of goodness while the weather turns gloomy, cold, and rainy outside, this butternut squash and turkey chili recipe is going to be your new favorite meal to make on special autumn days — whether you're watching a football game, cozying up to a movie, or having a big day at the pumpkin patch or apple orchard.

When the first patch of latkes as drained, transfer them to a serving plate and keep warm in the oven.

Throw it on for the pumpkin patch, hay rides, trick or treating with the kiddos and not only will you be warm and cozy, it also magically takes your outfit up a notch, which no easy task this time of year!

Side - effects include temporary sensitiveness of the teeth to cold and warm, a sore throat, tender gums and white patches on the gums.

A hot spot is a warm, painful, swollen patch of skin 1 to 4 inches (2.5 to 10 cm) across that exudes pus and gives off a foul odor.

Cats love to sleep on warm surfaces — that's why you'll often find your cat snoozing in a patch of sunlight or on top of a heating vent.

Healthy, trim Bassets have good energy levels, but they are also content to snooze away the afternoon in a patch of warm sun.

I was there in late July and was lucky that it was warm, partly cloudy with patches of blue sky peeking through the cloud cover.

Experience amazing reef snorkel adventures in warm turquoise waters where you will discover lush coral patch formations and encounter an array of coastal marine species including reef fish, eagle ray, moray eel, sea turtles, octopus, shrimp, and lobster.

Weather experts call this huge patch of water, which is two to four degrees warmer than normal, «the blob.»

Or you can pull up a patch of sand and watch beach volleyball or enjoy a warm beach bonfire and casual walks on the historic Huntington Beach Pier.

Those who warm to the entire experience will surely return to find all the treasure and to earn the achievement - like medals (a patch has also added trophies which are earned at the same time of each medal), which unlocks bonus content (a better reward than a mere number that idiots brag about and cheat to earn).

A gauzy, soft light emanates from the painting's surface, which undulates in rosy patches that blush to warmer oranges and pinks, receding to cooler tones as our eyes lift towards the top of the canvas.

Over a scale of nearly fifteen feet, its leaf - like patches of warm color create an armature of interlocking X-shapes.

In his canvases, biomorphic bursts and calligraphic trailings, like blossoms and vines, crawl lightheartedly over geometric patches of warm color to evoke a spirited but civilized garden world.

«I just happen to be publishing an article by a scientist who lives on Tuvalu and who shows that the real problems already being experienced by people there (salination, sinking because of sand excavation) while ascribed by politicians seeking aid to global warming, are in fact due to over population, natural local causes and above (sic) development on what is little more than a floating patch of sand in the Pacific.»

However, all other factors being equal, many studies and observations reveal that hurricanes intensify as they pass over patches of warm water.

Thus one might expect larger hurricanes to extend the interval between hurricanes over the patches of ocean that spawn them, because they don't spawn until the sea surface warms sufficiently again.

4:15 p.m. Updated On the tiny patch of American public discourse reserved for the global warming debate (to get an idea of how tiny, find climate, or the environment for that matter, in this news map if you can), a week of blogitation over a sprawling report examining failed efforts to pass a climate bill has started to give way to constructive discussion.

The entire North Atlantic is unusually warm right now (+0.6 degrees Celsius) relative to the already - globally - warmed late twentieth century (1971 - 2000) average, and there are large patches of ocean water off the US East Coast that are 2 - 4 degrees Celsius above that average.

Snow and ice reflect heat very effectively (which is why patches of snow survive long after temperatures rise above freezing), so if warming leads to less snow, then more heat will be absorbed, which warms the planet further.

-- warming, except for a couple of neutral areas (and one small patch of cooling in Antarctica.)

Do cold patches of ocean have less significance for affecting marine life than warm patches?

To get a little perspective we can look at this global map of SST anomalies and ask what is so special about the warm SST anomalies off WA compared to the warm patch off Angola?