According to climate scientists and meteorological researchers, extreme weather events are rare.

On some days, the Weather Focus could be a photo of a rare meteorological event.

Raining animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals " rain " from the sky.

In these rare circumstances where an elliptical wing collapses, the collapse is caused either by some extreme adverse meteorological condition or by pilot error.

A snow roller is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which large snowballs are formed naturally as chunks of snow are blown along the ground by wind, picking up material along the way, in much the same way that the large snowballs used in snowmen are made.

The Morning Glory cloud is a rare meteorological phenomenon occasionally observed in different locations around the world.

* Morning Glory cloud, a rare meteorological phenomenon in Australia

The once rare phenomenon of having a country hit cross over to pop success became more common.

The formation of geysers is due to particular hydrogeological conditions, which exist in only a few places on Earth, so they are a fairly rare phenomenon.

A rare optical phenomenon may occur shortly after sunset or before sunrise, known as a green flash.

While they do not sing or call out like males do, they do answer back ( an extremely rare phenomenon in the animal world ).

This administration was in turn opposed by the Polish Underground State, which not only fielded one of the three largest partisan forces in existence, but was a rare example of an underground government, a phenomenon not witnessed in many other occupied countries.

On the first Sunday of November 1941, high school students from all over Corfu took part in student protests against the occupying Italian army ; these student protests of the island were among the first acts of overt popular Resistance in occupied Greece and a rare phenomenon even by wartime European standards.

Hofstadter later recognized ( what he saw as ) the influence of Darwinist and other evolutionary ideas upon those with collectivist views, enough to devise a term for the phenomenon, “ Darwinist collectivism .” Before Hofstadter's work the use of the term in English academic journals was quite rare.

* 120 ° parhelion, relatively rare halo, an optical phenomenon occasionally appearing along with very bright sun dogs

* Infralateral arc, a rare halo, an optical phenomenon appearing similar to a rainbow under a white parhelic circle

* Parry arc, a rare halo, an optical phenomenon which occasionally appears over a 22 ° halo together with an upper tangent arc

* Supralateral arc, a rare halo, an optical phenomenon often confused with the indeed infrequently appearing 46 ° halo

Their common basic hypothesis was that the phenomenon was induced from rare oxidation processes and radical reactions.

" If ( she ) had reacted differently, that would have been suspect " and Hearst was " a rare phenomenon ( in a first world nation )... the first and as far as I know the only victim of a political kidnapping in the United States " were direct quotes from Hearst's autobiography attributed to the doctor.

( Other prominent Mediterranean tenors of the late 19th century to early 20th century who, like Caruso, did not " bleat " were Angelo Masini, Francesco Tamagno, Francesco Marconi, Francisco Viñas, Emilio De Marchi, Giuseppe Borgatti and Giovanni Zenatello, while the phenomenon was rare among French, German, Russian and Anglo-Saxon tenors of the same period — see Scott.

This has been noted as a rare phenomenon in many plants ( e. g. Nicotiana and Crepis ), and occurs as the regular reproductive method in the Saharan Cypress, Cupressus dupreziana.

Such is a rare phenomenon because interstates and US routes are numbered in order from opposite ends of the country, and in middle sections, such overlap is avoided.

A rare phenomenon, the occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 50, 000 births to 1 in 100, 000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence in Southwest Asia and Africa.

Although serfdom became increasingly rare in most of Western Europe after the Renaissance, it grew strong in Central and Eastern Europe, where it had previously been less common ( this phenomenon was known as " later serfdom ").

For example, in " The Waking Dream: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of Our Lives ", Ray Grasse suggests that instead of being a " rare " phenomenon, as Jung suggested, synchronicity is more likely all-pervasive, and that the occasional dramatic coincidence is only the tip of a larger iceberg of meaning that underlies our lives.

Years of average rainfall are rare ; the usual pattern is bimodal, with some large string of dry years usually related to La Niña phenomenon ( slightly higher than 11. 5 inches / 300 millimetres ) followed by other years ( around 5 ) related to El Niño that make up the average ( with higher than 39 inches / 1000 millimetres ).

This fairly rare phenomenon, a heat burst, also tends to be of exceedingly dry air.

* Transient lunar phenomenon, rare illumination event on the Lunar surface.

Until recently, research on this phenomenon has been relatively rare, with only two types of involuntary memory retrieval identified: involuntary autobiographical memory retrieval, and involuntary semantic memory retrieval.

Artists were so highly valued under his rule that they were paid for their work — a rare phenomenon in ancient civilizations.

Dysprosium is never encountered as a free element, but is found in many minerals, including xenotime, fergusonite, gadolinite, euxenite, polycrase, blomstrandine, monazite and bastnäsite ; often with erbium and holmium or other rare earth elements.

However, in particular and very rare conditions such as these encountered in the past in Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico ( and more recently in the Frasassi Caves in Italy ), other mechanisms may also play a role.

A Martian named Tweel ( one of several species encountered ) is depicted as a sympathetic, intelligent being who thinks as well as or better than a human, but in a convincingly alien manner ( a rare feat at any time, but especially striking for pulp science fiction of that era ).

Pink, blue, champagne, green, black and even purple saltwater pearls can be encountered, but to collect enough of these rare colors to form a complete string of the same size and same shade can take years.

His first appearance in print was by accident, writes Miller ; a person he did not know submitted, without his permission or awareness, a personal letter to his friend Jeanne Carr, describing Calypso borealis, a rare flower he had encountered.

Apparently sources close to King João VI confirmed as much by asserting that he had not had sexual relations with his wife for two and a half years prior to Miguel's birth ( a period when his parents carried out a conjugal war, during which they were involved in permanent conspiracies, and only encountered each other in rare official circumstances ).

Heterophony is somewhat rare in Western Classical music prior to the twentieth century, but is frequently encountered in the music of early modernist composers such as Debussy, Enescu and Stravinsky, who were directly influenced by non-Western ( and largely heterophonic ) musics.

Though rather rare as a phoneme in the world's inventory of languages, it is encountered in some of the most widespread and influential ( see below ).

Imperial Woodpeckers were stunning birds and as the species became rare many were apparently shot by people who had never encountered such a bird and wanted to get a closer look ( Lammertink et al., 1996 ).

On the rare occasions when SADF Ratels encountered enemy armour, such as the Soviet-made tanks encountered in Operation Protea ( 1981 ) and Operations Modular, Hooper, and Packer in 1988, they achieved successes through manoeuvrebility and only at very short ranges.

This is nevertheless evolutionarily stable since selection pressure acts on the typical conditions, not on the rare occasions where actual genetic relatedness differs from that normally encountered ( see Sherman above ).

In rare instances, old ring circuits may be encountered with no fewer than 4 15 A fuses per ring, one on each of L and N, and this duplicated for each of the 2 feeds for the ring.

Of course, a uniform substrate would be rare in nature ; hard layers of rock along the way may establish a temporary base level, followed by a high gradient, or even a waterfall, as softer materials are encountered below the hard layer.

The term "- ylidine " is encountered sporadically, and is often used synonymously with-ylidene. The spelling "- ylidine " seems to be a rare usage in some contexts, but it appears in manufacturer's publications about Sunitinib PubChem indexes 740, 110 results for "- ylidene ", of which 14 use synonyms that replace the suffix freely with "- ylidine ". An additional four compound entries contain "- ylidine " without listing "- ylidene " as a synonym.

Wykehamical vowel-alteration is often accompanied by a High Rising Terminal intonation pattern, which is often encountered in Australian English and the stereotyped Californian Valspeak, but which is relatively rare in the context of standard Southern British English and may wrongly be interpreted as " questioning ".

Less frequently encountered findings include cleft lip and palate, preauricular tags and fistulas, thymic dysplasia, intestinal malrotation, megacolon, inguinal hernia, dislocated hips, cryptorchidism, hypospadias, rare renal malformations ( e. g., horseshoe kidneys, renal ectopia or agenesis, hydronephrosis ), clinodactyly of the fifth fingers, talipes equinovarus, pes planus, syndactyly of the second and third fingers and toes, oligosyndactyly, and hyperextensible joints.

Although the concept is frequently encountered in historical linguistics from the early twentieth century, attested cases of language mixture, as opposed to code-switching, substrata, or lexical borrowing, are quite rare.

It is uncommon to rare in most of its range, but commoner in southeastern Brazil, where it is the most frequently encountered member of its genus.

Monkeys and deer are encountered about 1 / 3 as frequently as armadillos, and other prey types are considerably more rare in the environment.

Armadillos, collared peccaries, deer, tegu lizards, tapir, and most other rare but solitary animals are stalked and pursued alone by bow hunters when encountered.

Although rare diseases are, in general, surprising when they are encountered, other diseases can be surprising in a particular person and time, and so " zebra " is the broader concept.

Since horses are the most commonly encountered hoofed animal and zebras are very rare, logically you could confidently guess that the animal making the hoofbeats is probably a horse.

More complicated gameplay mechanics that are often found in other games ( such as jumping puzzles ) are rare, and when encountered they are fairly simple, usually requiring the player to locate keys / objects in order to unlock doors or advance to the next level.