The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.

All had fallen into a complete silence, listening to the wind whistle over the wings.

Along about 4:30, just when it was getting to be about time to turn the audience over and toast them on the other side, Judy came on singing, in a short-skirted blue dress with a blue and white jacket that flapped in the wind.

Adiabatic heating also occurs in the Earth's atmosphere when an air mass descends, for example, in a katabatic wind or Foehn or chinook wind flowing downhill over a mountain range.

Therefore, counting the turns of the cups over a set time period produced the average wind speed for a wide range of speeds.

Instead, the ratio of the speed of the wind and that of the cups, the anemometer factor, depends on the dimensions of the cups and arms, and may have a value between two and a little over three.

Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elemental measurements in a given region over long periods.

The likelihood of a 1st century tomb being built to the west of the city is questionable, as according to the late 1st century Rabbinic leader, Akiva ben Joseph, quoted in the Mishnah, tombs should not built to the west of the city, as the wind in Jerusalem generally blows from the west, and would blow the smell of the corpses and their impurity over the city, and the Temple Mount.

Also, if a gust of wind blows the ball over on a place kick attempt after the kicker has begun their run-up, thus allowing the opposing team to begin a charge down, then there is no time to reset the ball, and the kicker may attempt a quick drop kick.

Conceptual research and development projects by over a hundred entities are investigating the use of kites in harnessing high altitude wind currents to generate electricity.

Advection frost ( also called wind frost ) refers to tiny ice spikes forming when there is a very cold wind blowing over branches of trees, poles and other surfaces.

On his gravestone is written: " May your spirit live, May you spend millions of years, You who love Thebes, Sitting with your face to the north wind, Your eyes beholding happiness " and " O night, spread thy wings over me as the imperishable stars ".

The abundance of helium-3 is thought to be greater on the Moon ( embedded in the upper layer of regolith by the solar wind over billions of years ), though still low in quantity ( 28 ppm of lunar regolith is helium-4 and from one ppb to 50 ppb is helium-3 )< ref name =" F. H. Cocks 2010 ">, and the solar system's gas giants ( left over from the original solar nebula ).

Bill Rose and Craig Chesner of Michigan Technological University have deduced that the total amount of erupted material was about — around of ignimbrite that flowed over the ground, and around that fell as ash, with the wind blowing most of it to the west.

The distance from Earth to the subsolar magnetopause varies over time due to solar activity, but typical distances range from 6-15 R. Empirical models using real-time solar wind data can provide a real-time estimate of the magnetopause location.

The Tropical continental airmass ( CT ) loses its strength as a major airmass in the region of west Africa and over Nigeria at this time ( around February in the southern part of Nigeria to June in northern Nigeria ) and begins to retreat coupled with the rising of air in form of convection within this airmass ( Tropical continental airmass ( CT )), further weakening the dominance of the wind over west Africa and Nigeria.

In Lapp mythology, Bieka-Galles ( or Biega -, Biegga-Galles, depending on dialect ; " The Old Man of the Winds ") is a deity who rules over rain and wind, and is the subject of boat and wooden shovel ( or, rather, oar ) offerings.

Crutzen and Birks showed that smoke injected into the atmosphere by fires in cities, forests and petroleum reserves could prevent up to 99 % of sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface, with major climatic consequences: " The normal dynamic and temperature structure of the atmosphere would therefore change considerably over a large fraction of the Northern Hemisphere, which will probably lead to important changes in land surface temperatures and wind systems.

For smaller bodies particularly, light and stellar wind can cause significant perturbations to the attitude and direction of motion of the body, and over time can be significant.

His frequent use of l ' aura is also remarkable: for example, the line " Erano i capei d ' oro a l ' aura sparsi " may both mean " her hair was all over Laura's body ", and " the wind (" l ' aura ") blew through her hair ".

While a wind wave never travels at more than 60 miles per hour, the velocity of a tsunami in the open sea must be reckoned in hundreds of miles per hour.

The highly successful metal pressure tube anemometer of William Henry Dines in 1892 utilized the same pressure difference between the open mouth of a straight tube facing the wind and a ring of small holes in a vertical tube which is closed at the upper end.

The outer edges of the Sun's corona are constantly being transported away due to open magnetic flux generating the solar wind.

Albatrosses spend long stretches of time at sea fishing, and use a flight pattern called " dynamic soaring " which exploits the vertical gradient of wind speed near the ocean surface to travel long distances without flapping, and without the aid of thermals ( which do not occur over the open ocean the same way they do over land ).

The French had a firing advantage, since the wind conditions meant they could open their lower gun ports, while the British had to leave theirs closed to avoid water washing onto the lower decks.

* GAIUS Generic Automated Integrated Universal System: cross platform open source automation system for industrial wind tunnels.

Cathedrals of monastic foundation, and some of secular clergy have cloisters which traditionally provided an open area where secular activities took place protected from wind and rain.

As their relatively dense cell walls cause them to readily sink, planktonic forms in open water usually rely on turbulent mixing of the upper layers by the wind to keep them suspended in sunlit surface waters.

* Revised Overture ( arranged by Geoffrey Toye, 1920 ; includes " I once was as meek ", " When the night wind howls ", " I know a youth ", " My eyes are fully open ", " I shipped, d ' ye see " and Hornpipe )

* The " Streamer " is " dreaded " when the main chute is whistling in the wind, the chutist cuts away, and attempts to open the reserve if there is time.

< p > In another place, this learned geographer, in alluding to the tradition that Sicily had been separated by a convulsion from Italy, remarks, that at present the land near the sea in those parts was rarely shaken by earthquakes, since there were now open orifices whereby fire and ignited matters and waters escaped ; but formerly, when the volcanoes of Etna, the Lipari Islands, Ischia, and others, were closed up, the imprisoned fire and wind might have produced far more vehement movements.

After the jumper has slipped or turned into the wind, they assume a prepare to land attitude by keeping the feet and knees together, knees slightly bent, elbows tight into the sides, chin on the chest and eyes open.

In a compressed air energy storage configuration, power, perhaps from a wind farm or bought on the open market at a time of low demand and low price, is used to drive the compressor, and the compressed air released to operate the turbine when required.

In the case of a forest where the adjacent land has been cut, creating an open / forest boundary, sunlight and wind penetrate to a much greater extent, drying out the interior of the forest close to the edge and encouraging growth of opportunistic species at the edge.

A few days later, the mouth of Frobisher Bay was reached, and because ice and wind prevented further travel north, Frobisher determined to sail westward up this passage ( which he conceived to be a strait ) to see " whether he might carry himself through the same into some open sea on the back side.

York reads the book, and while fasting and seeking God, the wind blows his Bible open to a page and verse which instructs, " Render therefore unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's ; and unto God the things that are God's.

According to one legend, after creating the mountains, rivers, flora, fauna, and laws for humans to live by, Bunjil gathered his wives and sons then asked Crow, who had charge of the winds, to open his bags and let out some wind.

Murray Pass, named for the explorer John Murray, between Deal and Erith Islands has long been used by ships to shelter from gales in Bass Strait, but it is a dangerous, partly open, roadstead, and many ships have been wrecked after sudden changes in wind direction and speed.

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 ).

By the 1960s it was found that cattle receive sufficient shelter from trees or wind fences ( usually wooden slabs 20 % open ).

The model corrects the officially measured wind speed to the wind speed at face height, assuming the person is in an open field.

It depended mostly on sail-power and used its oars only as auxiliaries if there was no wind on the open water.