This section is a concrete slab track with a steady incline of about 20 % and the runners are exposed above the tree line, often to a sharp, icy wind.

It will be streamlined ; for example, it does not have sharp edges crossing the wind stream above the windshield and will feature a sort of tail called a fastback or Kammback or liftback.

However the wind shifted and a sharp breeze cooled off the thousand or so spectators at Nash Field.

A squall is a sudden, sharp increase in wind speed which is usually associated with active weather, such as rain showers, thunderstorms, or heavy snow.

Sastrugi, or zastrugi, are sharp irregular grooves or ridges formed on a snow surface by wind erosion and deposition, and found in polar and temperate snow regions.

" No fear for wind and storm and with the emergence of the Sun, a sharp contrast will be found between black and white ".

One environmental trend is shared by all of the formation mechanisms hypothesized for mammatus clouds: sharp gradients in temperature, moisture and momentum ( wind shear ) across the anvil cloud / sub-cloud air boundary, which strongly influence interactions therein.

Stronger dry line passages result in a sharp drop in dew point, clearing skies, and a wind shift from south or south-easterly to west or south-westerly.

: In Hel, dead call it ' squall ' sharp increase in wind speed before a rain.

" Marsh-marigolds are in decline as agricultural land continues to be drained, but they are still the most three-dimensional of plants, their fleshy leaves and shiny petals impervious to wind and snow, and standing in sharp relief against the tousled brown of frostbitten grasses.

A sharp decrease in illumination was noted at 35 to 30 km altitude and wind speeds of less than 1 km / s were measured below 10 km.

Differing wind direction on either side of the thermal dividing line allows for sharp updrafts under certain conditions, favorable to thunderstorm development.

The Morning Glory is often accompanied by sudden wind squalls, intense low-level wind shear, a rapid increase in the vertical displacement of air parcels, and a sharp pressure jump at the surface.

Air under pressure ( referred to as wind ) is driven down a flue and against a sharp lip called a Labium, causing the column of air in the pipe to resonate at a frequency determined by the pipe length.

To this end it can generate, at will, " sharp " planes of wind, tornadoes, or even release its signature Dead Long Fuun attack wherein Lanstar projects four streams of incredibly intense air currents that combine into the shape of a serpentine dragon.

Being an elephant, Dumbo's memory is usually very good, his hearing is very sharp and sometimes his sneezes are often strong-strong enough to cause some wind.

CAT appears more frequently when the wind is surrounding a low pressure region, especially with sharp troughs that change the wind direction more than 100 °.

# " Dialogue of the wind and the sea " or " Dialogue between wind and waves "-animated and tumultuous ( C sharp minor )

This orange form of Betterman uses compressed air and razor sharp wind as weapons.

There are several conceptions of how it looked or operated, but the most common is one of a trio of weasels with sharp claws, riding on a gust of wind and cutting people's skin on the legs.

A Wiffleball bat is also often used as an effective prod because the hollow plastic bat makes a sharp ringing sound when slapped against the skin.

The sharp cries at the end of the valley were faint.

Clapping spurs to the bronc he set off at a sharp canter, with growing alarm.

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

The chevaux de frise, those sharp stakes and barriers around the fort at the Battery, pointed to a conflict between the town and sea power rolling in glassy swells as the tide came in.

Besides the well-known hydrogen line at 21 cm wavelength, the spectra of extraterrestrial radio sources may contain sharp lines characteristic of other atoms, ions, and small molecules.

His voice had sharp edges, as though he knew very well Lucy and he were not friends at the moment.

The black Fudo seemed to stare rigidly back at him and Richard's eyes were caught by the Fudo's in fascination, and then Richard was shocked as, all at once, flames shot out from the sharp features of Fudo's face and there was a terrible metallic scraping sound, as if the large statue were about to burst from some pressure within it.

I followed it, looking at the brilliant colors on its tubular back, the colors clear and sharp and perfect, in orange and green and brown diamonds the size of a baby's fist down its back, and the diamonds were set one within the other and interlaced with glistening jet-black.

Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, but Hector fights on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw: the action ends without a winner and with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax a sharp sword.

From that time Abdur Rahman was fairly seated on the throne at Kabul, and in the course of the next few years he consolidated his dominion over all Afghanistan, suppressing insurrections by a sharp and relentless use of his despotic authority.

* French author Jacques Lusseyran, who was visually impaired at the age of 7 when he injured his eyes on the sharp corner of a teacher's desk, became part of the French resistance during World War II.

Berkelium ( III ) ions shows two sharp fluorescence peaks at 652 nanometers ( red light ) and 742 nanometers ( deep red – near infrared ) due to internal transitions at the f-electron shell.

The old placoderms did not have teeth at all, but had sharp bony plates in their mouth.

The turnover in this group is clearly marked at the species level .< ref > Statistical analysis of marine losses at this time suggests that the decrease in diversity was caused more by a sharp increase in extinctions than by a decrease in speciation .< ref > The K – T boundary record of dinoflagellates is not as well-understood, mainly because only microbial cysts provide a fossil record, and not all dinoflagellate species have cyst-forming stages, thereby likely causing diversity to be underestimated.

Radio observations revealed a sharp increase in continuum emission at a wavelength of 21 cm after the largest impacts, which peaked at 120 % of the normal emission from the planet.

To match the USA's military buildup, the Soviet Union increased its own military spending to 27 % of its GDP and froze production of civilian goods at 1980 levels, causing a sharp economic decline in the already failing Soviet economy.

His Inger On the Beach ( 1889 ), which caused another storm of confusion and controversy, hints at the simplified forms, heavy outlines, sharp contrasts, and emotional content of his mature style to come.

The field ion microscope is a type of microscope that can be used to image the arrangement of atoms at the surface of a sharp metal tip.

Gernsback was noted for sharp ( and sometimes shady ) business practices, and for paying his writers extremely low fees or not paying them at all.

Yet with a mind less shallow, if less sharp, than some of the fortune-happy syndicates which back him, he feels what he cannot formulate ; ;

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

They had my mother's opinion of him: that he was too sharp or a little too good to be true.

Where their sharp edges seemed restless as sea waves thrusting themselves upward in angry motion, Papa-san sat glacier-like, his smooth solidity, his very immobility defying all the turmoil about him.

He hit him once on the sharp point of his chin and felt the body go limp.

The biographer Travis Beal Jacobs also suggests that the alienation of the Columbia faculty contributed to sharp intellectual criticism of him for many years.

Historians debate whether or not Washington preferred a Fabian strategy to harass the British with quick, sharp attacks followed by a retreat so the larger British army could not catch him, or whether he preferred to fight major battles.

The first step, which carried him to the outbreak of the schism, involves moderate recognition of the papal primacy ; the second, which carried him to 1381, is marked by an estrangement from the papacy ; and the third shows him in sharp contest.

Perenelle ends up defeating him and his daughters, the Nereids, who appear as sharp toothed monsters.

In Henry IV Shakespeare portrays him as wild and exotic ; a man ruled by magic and tradition in sharp contrast to the more logical but highly emotional Hotspur.

Science fiction editors John Clute and Peter Nichols offer a largely favorable appraisal of King, noting his " pungent prose, sharp ear for dialogue, disarmingly laid-back, frank style, along with his passionately fierce denunciation of human stupidity and cruelty ( especially to children ) of which rank him among the more distinguished ' popular ' writers.

However, with his supporters in court quickly disappearing, in 1532 he asked the King again to relieve him of his office, claiming that he was ill and suffering from sharp chest pains.

The sharp head of the spear pierced right through the plates and through his body, stabbing him beyond rescue ; thus was that chieftain struck down to death.

He had extraordinarily sharp eyesight, allowing him to see magnitude 7. 5 stars with the naked eye, about four times fainter than visible to normal eyes.

After DeForest Kelley in 1964 stated his non-interest in playing the role, Roddenberry cast Nimoy because he knew him from a guest appearance in his pilot The Lieutenant ; after Roddenberry saw Nimoy's thin face and sharp features, no other actors were considered-Kelley, on the other hand, would later be cast as Dr. McCoy, the highly emotional human who became Spock's frequent foil.

French writes of being punched by band members, thrown into walls, kicked, punched in the face by Beefheart hard enough to draw blood, being attacked with a sharp broomstick, and eventually of Beefheart threatening to throw him out of an upper floor window.

First, Jean falls hard for Pike and shields him from her card sharp father.

In the 1950s, sportswriters dubbed him with yet another nickname, " The Old Professor " ( or " Perfessor "), for his sharp wit and his ability to talk at length on anything baseball-related.

She sent him a cattlechasing gadfly ; and the bull, pricked continually all over by the sharp sting, galloped away like a horse through pathless tracts then threw and gorged him to death "