From mid-June to mid-September the prevailing wind, called the shamal, is from the north and northwest.

To start with, their top speed was only 50 mph ( 80 km / h ), while the desert wind ( known as the shamal ) often reached 80 mph ( 129 km / h ).

In particular, they were not suitable for desert conditions: their top speed was only 50 mph ( 80 km / h ), while the wind ( known locally as the shamal ) often reached 80 mph ( 129 km / h ).

It is named after shamal, a hot summer wind that blows in large areas of Mesopotamia.

A shamal is a northwesterly wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf states ( including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait ), often strong during the day, but decreasing at night.

: In Afghanistan shamal means both ' wind ' and ' North.

The very dry air brought by this shamal permits intensive sun heating of the land surface, but the breeze has some cooling effect.

From December to March, prevailing winds from the southeast, known as the shamal, bring damp air over the islands.

Near the end of June, the last shamal arrives, known as the Al-Dabaran, or the follower.

According to folklore, the first major shamal occurring around May 25 is known as the Al-Haffar, or driller, since it drills huge depressions in desert sand dunes.

Local residents keep doors and windows firmly shut as this shamal includes an all-penetrating fine dust which gets into everything.

A notable storm caused by a shamal covered Baghdad with sand on August 8, 2005, resulting in a closing of nearly all shops and public activity.

His career was also severely affected by a car accident in 1962 on Blackpool promenade, when the sports car in which he was returning late to his hotel was blown by a gust of wind into the path of another vehicle.

The Li play a traditional wind instrument called kǒuxiāo ( 口箫 ), and another called lìlāluó ( 利拉罗 ).

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There is another disturbance of the Earth's rotation called polar motion that can be estimated for only a few months into the future because it is influenced by rapidly and unpredictably varying things such as ocean currents, wind systems, and motions in the liquid nickel-iron outer core of the Earth.

New renewables ( small hydro, modern biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, and biofuels ) accounted for another 3 % and are growing very rapidly.

In June 2011 another three WES18 wind turbines have been installed resulting in a total number of six wind turbines with a nominal power output of 80 kW each.

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On 18 July rumours reached Stauffenberg that the Gestapo had wind of the conspiracy and that he might be arrested at any time – this was apparently not true, but there was a sense that the net was closing in and that the next opportunity to kill Hitler must be taken because there might not be another.

Balius (; Βάλιος, Balios, possibly " dappled ") and Xanthus (; Ξάνθος, Xanthos, " blonde ") were, according to Greek mythology, two immortal horses, the offspring of the harpy Podarge and the West wind, Zephyros ( Latin Zephyrus ); following another tradition, their father was Zeus.

* Protective shelter — one type of plant may serve as a wind break or shade for another

But Fúamnach hears of this and creates another wind which blows her away from him for another seven years.

Since October 2010, the county board of commissioners has supported a " strategic investment program " for another wind power project in Oregon, Horizon Wind Energy's proposed Antelope Ridge Wind Farm ; after delays due to concerns about the project's impact on wildlife, the project has received support from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Indeed, since Egyptian white vultures have no significant differing markings between female and male of the species, being without sexual dimorphism, the Egyptians believed they were all females, who conceived their offspring by the wind herself, another parthenogenic concept.

In his Kitab al-shifa ( Book of soul healing ), he proposed another taxonomy, this one having 5 classes: fretted instruments, unfretted ( open ) stringed, lyres and harps, bowed stringed, wind ( reeds and some other woodwinds, such as the flute and bagpipe ), other wind instrumets such as the organ, and the stick-struck santur ( a board zither ).

In late 2011, a 75-turbine wind farm, that could deliver $ 360, 000 in fees and permits for Woodford County, will start construction ( another part of the project is in neighboring Livingston County, Illinois, with 25 towers ).

If people got wind of another major railroad coming to town, land prices would escalate.

Public health was another key consideration of Latrobe, who believed that the eastern shores of rivers were unhealthy, due to prevailing direction of the wind, and recommended cities be built on the western shores of rivers.

In 1968 he founded another group that published the influential Anarchos magazine, which published that and other innovative essays on post-scarcity and on ecological technologies such as solar and wind energy, and on decentralization and miniaturization.

To convert wind speeds from one averaging time to another, the Durst Curve ( Ref: ASCE 7-05 commentary Figure C6-4 ) was developed which defines the relation between probable maximum wind speed averaged over t seconds, V ( t ), and mean wind speed over one hour V ( 3600 ).

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Which brings to mind another Lawrence story and some interesting comparisons in the treatment of the Oedipal theme.

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If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

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Cousin Joshua and some others felt that we should march toward Lexington and take up new positions ahead of the slow-moving British column, but another group maintained that we should stick to this spot and this section of road.

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Such understanding helps to explain why one matron celebrating thirty-five years of married life could declare with some pride that her husband had `` never seen her entirely naked '', while another woman, boasting an equal number of years of married life, is proud of having `` shared the nudist way of life -- the really free, natural nude life -- for most of that period ''.

She teamed up with another beauty, whose name has been lost to history, and commenced with some fiddling that would have made Nero envious.

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Occasionally, Seigner draws some justly deserved laughs by his quick shifts from one personality to another.

After the war, enough British and American anthropologists borrowed ideas and methodological approaches from one another that some began to speak of them collectively as ' sociocultural ' anthropology.

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While the Byzantine Empire was to continue for nearly another four centuries, and the Crusades would contest the issue for some time, the victory at Manzikert signalled the beginning of Turkish ascendancy in Anatolia.

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