During non-El Niño conditions, the Walker circulation is seen at the surface as easterly trade winds that move water and air warmed by the sun toward the west.

In spring and summer, the upper layer is warmed up by the sun and diluted by the fresh water from rivers, while the deeper water remains cold and saline.

The thermal mass is warmed passively by the sun or additionally by internal heating systems during the day.

These birds are usually inactive until the morning sun has warmed up the air with sufficient thermals to support their soaring.

The sun was important-it warmed the earth and thus was a source of all life.

Often, especially in rainy days it was warmed in the sun or near fireplace before using, in order to emit more harmonious sounds.

Snakes often move into open, sunny areas to absorb heat from the sun and warmed earth-a behavior known as basking.

The sea is warmed by the sun to a greater depth than the land due to its greater specific heat.

If Epiphany Day was bright and mild and the sun “ warmed the horses ’ backs ” it was said that the coming year would bring only peace.

Shallow dams and reservoirs are susceptible to outbreaks of toxic algae, especially if the water is warmed by a hot sun.

In the spring and summer, the surface waters of the lake are warmed by increasing temperatures and the sun.

Unlike the Dark World, Aenir has no veil and is warmed and lit by the sun.

The Walker circulation is seen at the surface as easterly trade winds which move water and air warmed by the sun towards the west.

The top layer of water ( epilimnion ) is warmed by the sun and sits atop the metalimnion ( also a thermocline ).

Their book " The New Autonomous House " documents the design and construction of this house, which is warmed and powered by the sun, produces its drinking water from rain, composts its effluent, and is consistent with its historic context.

Birds chirped and chattered in the trees and the sun, all dewy-eyed and soft, caressed her shoulders warmly from time to time.

Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

`` Do you remember the woman in the French Alps who was all alone with her sheep one day when the sun darkened ominously??

She was the sun, he the closest planet orbiting around her, the rest of the world existing and visible yet removed.

She leaned unconcerned against the broken porch fence, brushing and drying her wet, gilded hair in the sun.

An old man, sitting against the wall of a cottage and waiting for the sun to find him, gave her a more than reflective look as she passed, the sap still plainly rising in his branches.

The day's sun was gathering its strength in gold, and she wished she had brought her parasol, if only to shade Doaty's flowers.

Apollo changed her into an incense plant, either heliotrope or sunflower, which follows the sun every day.

One day, fed up with her cruel younger brother, the sun goddess, Amaterasu, hid herself in a cave.

Helios, the sun, who sees everything, eventually told Demeter what had happened and at length she discovered the place of her abode.

When the manor is alerted to his presence, Magil throws Riddel over his shoulder and dashes off into the morning sun as her proud father Lynx tearily bids goodbye.

Earlier Egyptian myths imply that the sun is within the lioness, Sekhmet, at night and can be seen reflected in her eyes or that it is within the cow, Hathor during the night, being reborn each morning as her son ( bull ).

The warrior goddess Sekhmet, shown with her sun disk and cobra crown.

In Japanese mythology, the sun goddess Amaterasu is startled by the behavior of her brother Susanoo and hides in a cave, plunging the world into darkness until she is willing to emerge.

The sun goddess Amaterasu became very upset at her brother so she hid in a cave.

The kami ( gods ) tricked Amaterasu by telling her there was a better sun goddess in the heavens.

He afterwards by a stratagem causes her to stand for a whole day in July, naked upon a tower, exposed to the flies, the gadflies, and the sun.

The cover featured Ono in her famous wrap-around sunglasses, looking towards the sun, while on the back the ghost of Lennon looks over her and their son.

She became the ruler of the sun and the heavens along with her brother, Tsukuyomi, the god of the moon and ruler of the night.

Afterward, she left Corinth and flew to Athens in a golden chariot driven by dragons sent by her grandfather Helios, god of the sun.

" Fear no more the heat of the sun " is the line that Winnie and her husband are trying to remember in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days as they sit exposed to the elements.

Meanwhile, he had this miserable cold, and as he leaned against the refrigerator, watching the rain make sandy puddles at his feet, the doctor's prescription for lots of sun seemed like a hollow mockery.

He said he found himself enveloped in a brilliant light, and looked up to see what seemed like the sun falling directly onto his body, and he thought that he was having a heart attack.

Syncretism covers the worship of Baal, the heavenly bodies ( sun, moon, and stars ), the " Queen of Heaven " and other deities as well as practices such as child sacrifice: " Other gods were invoked and serviced in time of need or blessing and provision for life when the worship of Yahweh seemed inadequate for those purposes.

Wisden recorded that " The sun scarcely graced the English cricket scene with its presence in 1978, but when it did it seemed to adorn the blond head of David Gower.

For the sun gave forth its light without brightness ... and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear.

" Eye specialist Dr. Domingos Pinto Coelho, writing for the newspaper Ordem reported " The sun, at one moment surrounded with scarlet flame, at another aureoled in yellow and deep purple, seemed to be in an exceeding fast and whirling movement, at times appearing to be loosened from the sky and to be approaching the earth, strongly radiating heat ".

Since Arizona is a western state the rays of the setting sun seemed appropriate.

The sun moreover seemed to pass around the Earth rather than to rise from below.

This fog was of a permanent nature ; it was dry, and the rays of the sun seemed to have little effect towards dissipating it, as they easily do a moist fog, arising from water.

The sun finally rose before us, all red on the edge of the horizon ; and as it climbed, lighter from minute to minute, the countryside seemed to be waking, to smile, shake itself and throw off, like a girl rising from her bed, its shift of white vapour.

It then seemed to increase in size, rose from the earth and ascended into the sky, where it obscured the sun with its brilliance.

It has been suggested, among others by ethnologist and former president Lennart Meri, that a meteorite which passed dramatically over populated regions and landed on the island of Saaremaa around 3, 000-4, 000 years ago was a cataclysmic event that may have influenced the mythology of Estonia and neighboring countries, especially those from whose vantage point a " sun " seemed to set in the east.

Ritter wrote that " the prewar Germany of my own youth, which has for an entire lifetime been illuminated in my memory by the radiant splendor of a sun that seemed to grow dark only after the outbreak of the war of 1914 " was " in the evening of my life " darkened by " shadows that were much deeper than my generation-and certainly the generation of my academic teachers-was able to perceive at the time ".

He would later describe the lands around Lincoln as " flat and grass-covered and smiling so serenely up at the sun that they seemed forever youthful, untouched by mind or time — a sunlit, timeless prairie over which nothing passed but antelope or wandering bird.

The palace, possessing an exceedingly beautiful form, like unto that of Agni or Suryya, or Soma, shone in great splendour, and by its brilliance seemed to darken even the bright rays of the sun.

Most people worshipped the sun as a god and so were afraid when winter came and it seemed that the lifegiving sun grew weak ; thus they celebrated the Solstice, the winter day when the weakening sun regained its strength.

At ignition, Brixner remembers " The whole filter seemed to light up as bright as the sun.