Sentences with phrase «wind from the west»

Wind from the west stank of oil wells and chemical plants, insecticide and fertilizer.

On Friday, 23 February the schooner approached the Santa Barbara northern channel around 11:30 in the evening with wind from the west at 6 knots and a heavy sea running.

Drier winds from the west usher in the «Little Dry» period because those dramatic nighttime storms and spontaneous daytime showers lessen while temperatures remain between 78 - and 86 - degrees at this time of year.

The same storms also continued past Cape Farewell at the southern tip of Greenland, creating a phenomenon known as Greenland tip jets: High winds from the west deflect around the glacial slopes of Greenland, accelerating as they draw cold, ocean - chilling air into a relatively small area over the southern Irminger Sea.»

A wind from the west will cause more cooling than a wind from the east, as the wind from the east blows over a greater portion of the town before it reaches the sensor.

In the northern part of the zone, Atlantic influences are practically nonexistent — probably because of the relatively high elevations of the coastal region, which reach 900 to 1,800 feet around San Jorge Gulf — although cold Pacific winds from the west and the cold Falkland Current off the Atlantic coast do have some effect.

«We're registering a greater frequency of winds from the west which bring rain and higher temperatures.»

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That's up from 15 % in 2016, with the shift driven by new solar and wind projects, the end of droughts in the West, and a dip in the share of natural gas generation.

A source close to the deal has confirmed that Wind's chairman and CEO, Tony Lacavera, has arranged to buy out VimpelCom's majority stake with financing from Toronto private equity firm West Face Capital and others.

He graduated from West Point in 2003, deployed to Iraq the following year, and was wounded in Fallujah on the eve of one of the biggest battles of the post-invasion campaign.

Instead, we should invest in an enhanced east - west electricity grid and bring in renewables from neighbouring provinces, while Alberta takes advantage of its huge potential in solar and wind.

Certainly all of the wounded young people at West's conferences still asking the sort ofquestion that one hesitates to print must be supposed to be far from this «mature purity».

Gregor says that the super-premium gin category grew by 39 per cent last year, with sales of the four leading local craft brands, Four Pillars, The West Winds Gin from WA, Melbourne Gin Company from Victoria and Archie Rose from NSW, growing between 50 and 150 per cent.

In 2007, he gambled by opening his own restaurant, Aponiente, in Puerto de Santa María, in the province of Cádiz, taking its name from the Mediterranean wind that blows in from the west.

West Virginia played the physical, «ugly» type of game that Bob Huggins is known for, and wound up forcing their opponents into 23 turnovers, including eight from senior standout Dez Wells.

He wound up at Marshall University, a I - AA program just an hour from his hometown in West Virginia.

Before halftime, however, West Point athletic director Carl Ullrich got wind of what the Yale bandsmen were up to and demanded the script for their show from the Bulldogs» announcer, Charles Rosenblum.

Diana Nyad failed to swim from Cuba to Key West when adverse winds, whipping up huge swells, forced her out of the water

and this game have at now a forecast of 20 to 27 mph wind coming from west, exactly across the long side of the field.

Enner Valencia is West Ham's only fit recognised centre forward; Diafra Sakho is still recovering from a thigh injury that has sidelined him for three months and Andy Carroll is always only the lightest gust of wind away from injury.

The final chapter in the Joao Mario transfer saga appears to be winding down as West Ham United appear to be very close to bringing the Portuguese international to England from Inter Milan.

The dry and dusty West African trade winds made its entry into the Greater Accra region on December 1 to complete its total influence after beginning from the North.

The cold, dry and dusty Harmattan winds engulfs the West African subcontinent from the Sahara Desert into the Gulf of Guinea between the end of November and the middle of March.

The former home secretary picked up the gong for his multi-award-winning autobiography The Long and Winding Road, charting his journey from the slums of West London to Westminster.

Dry weather has hurt the crop after the Harmattan — dry winds that blow over West Africa from the Sahara desert — was the worst in three decades.

Damaging winds led Governor Andrew Cuomo to urge all New Yorkers to exercise extreme caution and avoid unnecessary travel as hazardous winds continue to move from west to east into the Finger Lakes.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

The winds around our globe are preferentially directed from West to East, or East to West, and much less so in the North - South directions.

The solar will complement a deal Georgetown signed last year with EFD Renewables for 144 MW of wind power from its West Texas wind farm through 2039.

Warm springtime temperatures, prolonged drought in the West, gusty winds and shifts in precipitation from snowpack to rainfall marked the 2015 season, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

Starting about five million years ago, however, that dry region expanded to the north and west, as new mountain ranges reached heights sufficient to block westerly winds from delivering moisture.

Wal - Mart has a four - year contract to buy energy from a West Texas wind farm to help power the state's hundreds of stores and facilities.

There is another significant meteorological phenomenon above the planet's equator and which could affect the winds: the Semi-annual Oscillation (SAO), which occurs about 50 km above the cloud deck and which causes the temperatures to oscillate and the winds to change direction and strength from East to West.

Satellite imagery is used for all sorts of climate study, from identifying conditions that allow infectious diseases like West Nile virus and cholera to emerge, to creating models for predicting hurricanes, to distinguishing natural resources such as wind, water and sunlight.

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After further analysis of the data, the scientists found that although a strong El Niño changes wind patterns in West Antarctica in a way that promotes flow of warm ocean waters towards the ice shelves to increase melting from below, it also increases snowfall particularly along the Amundsen Sea sector.

The satellites give temperature measurements with a spatial resolution of roughly 1 square kilometre, which the team matched up with data from the US Federal Aviation Administration on the exact location of 2358 wind turbines in west - central Texas.

Since air from North America could not have contaminated Cheeka Peak with winds blowing from the west, the next step was identifying the true source of the pollutants.

In another account, Herjólfsson is «beset by winds from the north and fog» and ends up finding land covered with forests to the west of Greenland.

Another problem is that the best wind - and solar - generation sites are in the Midwest and Southwest, far from the energy - hungry population centers on the east and west coasts.

The latest 24 - hour forecast of the oil's trajectory, created by feeding currents and wind predictions into computer models, shows oil hitting dozens of places along Louisiana shorelines, from Caillou Bay in the west to Breton Sound, just east of where the Mississippi meets the gulf.

Looking at two different measures of wind intensity (the East - West difference in sea level pressure and the depth of the thermocline) over the time periods involved, they conclude that trade winds were diminishing over the course of 1950 to 1990, but then picked up from 1990 to 2010.

In normal, non-El Niño conditions, Pacific trade winds near the equator blow from east to west, moving warm surface water with them.

Meltwater originating from the west coast of Greenland, on the other hand, is often kept pinned to the coastline by strong winds, which push it northward toward Baffin Bay.

As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, federal forecasters are warning that the massive storm could bring «life - threatening» storm surges, flooding, hurricane - force winds, heavy rain and even blizzardlike snowfall over an area stretching from the Carolinas to Canada, and west to Ohio.

The dipole's cold water component can push northwards the prevailing winds that blow across the Indian Ocean from west to east.

When trade winds are weak, the lagoon's waters are churned more frequently by gusts blowing from the west.

During an El Niño year, the winds that usually blow from east to west across the Amazon weaken, so less moisture is carried over the basin.

Measurements were made that the Piney Reservoir Air Monitoring Station in Garrett County, Maryland, a spot surrounded by forest and farm land, where winds arrive commonly from the west and northwest.

Prevailing winds on Titan blow from east to west across the moon's surface, but sandy dunes nearly 300 feet tall seem to form in the opposite direction.