Sentences with phrase «which rain and wind»

Check there are no gaps through which rain and wind can get in.

Not exact matches

Intrepid guests can don ponchos and wellies and experience a «west coast facial,» which occurs when the rain goes sideways in the wind and massages your face as you walk along Chesterman Beach.

Irma's winds, which peaked at 185 mph, tore through human settlements and toppled trees, while its rain and storm surge have flooded homes and streets.

But don't focus so much on the category number, which is determined solely by wind speed: It's the combination of wind, storm surge, rain, flooding, and even the possibility of tornadoes that are the biggest concern for much of the Florida peninsula.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

In Matthew one house is founded directly on rock and the other on sand; and the test to which they are subjected consists of rain, floods, and wind.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

But then come rain, flood, and wind — like the struggles which come into every life.

Anyway, it was 80 degrees and then this ferocious wind blew in from Canada (thanks, Canada) and brought pelting rain, which turned to snow.

Weevils have attacked the plants in the past, damaging the local crop, but the biggest threats to supply are the lack of large - scale producers (most locals just grow a few plants for their own use) and hurricanes, which dump heavy rains and pack a punch with fierce winds that destroy the fragile plants.

The stroller has a large canopy which protects the children from harmful elements like the sun, wind, and rain.

My health visitor said the same thing to ensure you leave the house every day (except for fog which is bad for babies), wind, snow, rain are all fine and lift your spirits and help baby sleep.

I also really like the zippered foot cover, which provides easy access to baby and protects her from sun, wind and light rain.

Perhaps Edward George Bulwer - Lytton's Paul Clifford whose opening line has been voted the worst in history: «It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which...».

Authorities say the gunman responsible for the massacre, which left 58 people dead and hundreds wounded, used bump stocks to allow his semi-automatic weapons to rain down considerably more bullets on the unsuspecting crowd during the attack.

The storm, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow.

Hurricane Sandy, which threatens 50 million people in the eastern third of the U.S., is expected to bring days of rain, high winds and possibly heavy snow.

Rain and wind could power the next generation of smart windows, which change color to block out light and heat.

In Scotland, it mostly originates far away as nitrogen oxides from power stations and car exhausts, which travel on the wind and eventually fall as acid rain.

The networks are helping to connect meteorites to the parent asteroids from which they hail, and also hastening discoveries, before rain and wind can erode fragile minerals inside the fallen rocks.

«When you fragment the rain forest, hot winds from the surrounding pastures blow into the forest and kill many trees, which just can't handle the stress,» explains team member Henrique Nascimento of Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research.

As most people know from experience, the solar plexus is that area just below the rib cage which, if hit just right, can cause you to feel as if you've had the wind — as well as the rain, the snow, and at least one kidney — knocked out of you.

I didn't want to lose light when trying to take pics outside when the rain lifted, which never really happened b / c it drizzled the whole time we were outside and the wind was blowing, ugh!

Secondly, I have to make that walk in the extremes of New England weather, which means sometimes through snow, on ice or, like last Friday, through gale - force - winds and driving rain.

Use it for work which is an outside campus, love that it has two different jackets works for all weather (rain, snow, wind) and great for all seasons as well (minus summer for obvious reasons)

In the North West, rain and wind seem to go together hand in hand, which makes umbrellas fairly useless.

Okay, not everything is new but I love that the blazer is 100 % lambswool which keeps me warm against the wind and rain.

That said, you're pretty much guaranteed an indoor ceremony and reception, which means no chance of rain, no Excaliburing your heels from picturesque grassy knolls or sand dunes, no errant winds, no obligation to wear revealing clothes.

deconstructs the technique of the framing sequences starring McConaughey and Boothe, placing the most emphasis on their characters» ride in the patrol car, which was shot on a set using twirling lights and wind and rain machines orchestrated by Butler.

The mountains act as a natural barrier preventing the cold wind from Central Asia entering India and stopping southwest winds which carry monsoons, helping to fertilise India's soil with the rain it pours down.

Newman achieved the speed while driving solo, receiving guiding tips (including ones about the conditions, which included high winds and rain) via radio from his stepfather in a similarly powered GT - R chase car.

Twelve judges put the cars through their paces on some of Australia's best driving roads, a racetrack and dragstrip in trying conditions which included rain, hail, sleet, fog, wind and glorious sunshine.

In pitch black driving rain and high winds I constantly felt out of control, which for a control freak is not a good feeling.

Cineplex is screening Marvel's «Doctor Strange» in the new format, which includes motion seats and an array of environmental effects — including rain, wind, lightning, snow, scents and bubbles — to correspond with appropriate sequences.

She has several straw - filled shelters in her pens, which allow her goats comfortable snuggle space out of wind and rain.

In 2006, (Detroit Free Press), «the USDA in 2004 opted not to fine Heartland Kennels [a puppy mill in southwestern Minnesota]-- which sent at least 123 pups to local pet shops in 2005 — after citing the facility for repeated violations that included confining dogs to cramped, dirty cages that offer no protection from the wind, rain and snow.

Which means that you can skip out on snow, wind and rain in your home town and find yourself in paradise anytime of the year.

Then the wind picked up and the clouds rolled in fast, the rain rushing toward us like a swift - footed army — which is when we looked at each other and without saying anything, took off running toward the Gounon house.

Volcanic eruptions created this surreal moonscape: the lava flows formed tuff rock, which wind and rain sculpted into sinuous valleys with curvy cliff faces and pointy fairy chimneys.

Anyone contemplating a visit to the park should be prepared for adverse weather conditions such as high winds and heavy rain, which are common at all times of the year.

We employ local craftsmen and local construction techniques, which take advantage of sun, rain and wind patterns for cooling and water drainage.

When we arrived at the Ritz, the edge of Typhoon Mujigae was whipping the city with rain and wind, which meant the hotel had to slow down the elevators, so an ascent that should have taken quick 53 seconds took 2 - 3 minutes.

I wouldn't have guessed it myself, but we happened to be in Fiji during the «turn of the season» as the locals refer to it, which brings with it 8 straight days of cool wind and rain.

From an archaeological perspective, Tulum is significant because of its status as a hub of trade and commerce in the Riviera Maya dating back to 1200 A.D. Structures of note include the often - photographed El Castillo, which is magnificently perched on a seaside cliff, the Temple of the Wind, whose rounded corners allowed the wind to flow freely around it as a sort of tribute to that god, and the Temple of the Frescoes, which shows different scenes of gods including Chaac, the ever - powerful rain Wind, whose rounded corners allowed the wind to flow freely around it as a sort of tribute to that god, and the Temple of the Frescoes, which shows different scenes of gods including Chaac, the ever - powerful rain wind to flow freely around it as a sort of tribute to that god, and the Temple of the Frescoes, which shows different scenes of gods including Chaac, the ever - powerful rain god.

The game also features a dynamic weather system, which includes fog, rain, and wind.

In these paintings which could have been created nowhere else, the conversation with nature intones layers of sediment and stone, the fall of rain, the path of the wind, and the swath of the haze of the Milky Way.»

In this interview Rauschenberg speaks of his role as a bridge from the Abstract Expressionists to the Pop artists; the relationship of affluence and art; his admiration for de Kooning, Jack Tworkov, and Franz Kline; the support he received from musicians Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earl Brown; his goal to create work which serves as unbiased documentation of his observations; the irrational juxtaposition that makes up a city, and the importance of that element in his work; the facsimile quality of painting and consequent limitations; the influence of Albers» teaching and his resulting inability to do work focusing on pain, struggle, or torture; the «lifetime» of painting and the problems of time relative symbolism; his feelings on the possibility of truly simulating chance in his work; his use of intervals, and its possible relation to the influence of Cage; his attempt to show as much drama on the edges of a piece as in the dead center; his belief in the importance of being stylistically flexible throughout a career; his involvement with the Stadtlijk Museum; his loss of interest in sculpture; his belief in the mixing of technology and aesthetics; his interest in moving to the country and the prospect of working with water, wind, sun, rain, and flowers; Ad Reinhardt's remarks on his Egan Show; his discontinuation of silk screens; his illustrations for Life Magazine; his role as a non-political artist; his struggles with abstraction; his recent theater work «Map Room Two;» his white paintings; and his disapproval of value hierarchy in art.

Skaer will also show abstract bronze sculptures that represent natural elements like rain, snow and wind, as well as works from her ongoing project in which she uses materials from her childhood home, configures them into abstract shapes and embellishes them with fine materials, replacing glass window panes with lapis lazuli, for example.

There has been, in my opinion, a trend, not really appreciated by most, which is stable extreme weather, one can name many zones of the world having some extreme fascet of continous drought, rain, heat and mostly changes in dominant wind directions for extended periods of time, which is in itself unusual.

So we get lightning and wind, which may be quite intense, but very little rain.