This small difference in the Sun's position against the stars causes any particular spot on the Earth's surface to catch up with ( and stand directly north or south of ) the Sun about 4 minutes later each day than it would if the Earth did not orbit ; our day is 24 hours long rather than the approximately 23 hour 56 minute sidereal day.

The long winter causes about half of the annual of precipitation in the north to fall as snow.

In Song Dynasty China an invasion by Jurchens causes a political schism of north and south.

Since the gyrocompass's north-seeking function depends on the rotation around the axis of the Earth that causes torque-induced gyroscopic precession, it will not orient itself correctly to true north if it is moved very fast in an east to west direction, thus negating the Earth's rotation.

Except in the far north near the Amur River, high humidity causes major discomfort at this time of year.

In the winter, however, the vast Siberian High causes very cold, north to northwesterly winds that bring temperatures as low as − 5 ° C ( 23 ° F ) in the extreme south and − 30 ° C (− 22 ° F ) in the north, where the zone of discontinuous permafrost reaches northern Heilongjiang.

Erosion of these sediments causes the Boston Mountains to be carved steeply in the south, while in the north of the county, the Boston Mountain sediments are almost entirely eroded, exposing the older Springfield formation.

Shell mounds near Weipa in far north Queensland that are up to 13 meters high and several hundred meters long are considered to be middens, but may also be explained by natural causes.

After heavy rainfalls, the Rockaway River causes flooding in the area of Denville that is north of the central business district, including residential areas along the river.

Under Liddle's editorship, Today won a number of awards: a Sony Silver in 2002 for reports by Barnie Choudhury and Mike Thomson into the causes of race riots in the north of England ; a Sony Bronze in 2003 for an investigation by Angus Stickler into paedophile priests ; and an Amnesty International Media Award in 2003 for Gilligan's investigation into the sale of illegal landmines, an investigation that attracted a lengthy legal action.

First, when on an easterly or westerly heading and the aircraft accelerates, the inertia effect of the weight on the compass in the magnet causes the compass to show a false turn towards the north if in the northern hemisphere or vice versa a false turn towards the south if in the southern hemisphere.

The underlying causes of the Swing Riots-low pay and increased mechanisation-remained however, and in 1832 a group of agricultural workers from Tolpuddle-eight miles north of Winfrith-formed a Friendly Society to protest against these same issues.

This moniker causes confusion, because the intersection of I-395, Washington Boulevard, and Columbia Pike several miles north was historically known by that name, and continues to be recognized by the Virginia Department of Transportation as such.

The Cribbar, a reef at the north end of the beach, causes waves to break when the swell is high.

According to the map images of the Valdemar Companion, the kingdom of Brendan is bordered to their north by Thurbrigard, west by Ruvan, south by Seejay ( west ) and the Altvar Confederation ( east ), with the kingdom of Isiro having a narrow northeastern border, the Grand Empire of the Hinar having an eastern border which is even narrower, and southeast by a kingdom named Ambon, with most of their east border being with Agedia, which causes the narrow mountainous border connection with the stated Empire.

The large influx from the north causes overpopulation and a wave of violence in the south, and James and Robert, two friends, decide to go north to escape the crime-ridden south.

In some areas of the market, especially north of Philadelphia, WFPA's signal causes some reception issues with the DTV signal of New York's WNBC-TV, which broadcasts its digital signal on channel 28.

In winter, as the Liaodong Bay is typically frozen north of the urban area of Dalian, the moderating effects of that body of water are minimised, as the Siberian high often causes winds to blow from the northwest: the monthly daily average temperature in January is, as compared to in downtown Dalian.

Periodically a slip will occur which causes the coastal portion to reduce in elevation and thrust toward the west, leading to tsunamis in the central and eastern north Pacific ocean ( with several hours of warning ) and a reflux of water toward the coastal shore, with little time for residents to escape.

Jamie and his fellow cover their cowardice with a specious lie: that they left only after Hugh died of natural causes, whereupon they first buried him before riding north to rejoin the trapping-party.

Additional problems are also found on the Single Lead Junction at Swansea Loop East junction ( north of station ), which causes conflict between trains from west of Swansea and the eastbound mainline High Speed Train services.

This is partly due to the elevation of the county, and partly due to orographic lifting, which causes precipitation to fall more readily in Watauga County than in lowland areas to the east.

While the causes for this are complicated, areas east of Louisville have long been popular with wealthy residents, first as summer residences eventually as year-round suburban estates and bedroom communities.

Temperature differences between the 500 hPa pressure level, or above ground level, and the sea surface temperatures initially exceed the dry adiabatic lapse rate, which causes an initial round of thunderstorms to form at a distance east of the center.

However, part of the border is the Salmon River on the east side, which causes the Connecticut river to divide the community of Haddam Neck from the rest of the town.

The construction of the Suez Canal, which opened in 1869, was one of the causes of the Panic of 1873, because the goods from the Far East were carried in sailing vessels around the Cape of Good Hope and were stored in British warehouses, but sailing vessels were not adaptable for use through the Suez Canal, because the prevailing winds of the Mediterranean Sea blow from west to east.

The process of western intensification causes the Gulf Stream to be a northward accelerating current off the east coast of North America.

Second, when on a northerly heading and a turn towards the east or west is made, the magnet causes the compass to lag behind the actual heading the aircraft is flying through.

This causes east winds bringing moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.

Popular protests by farm workers occurred across a wide swath of agricultural England, from Sussex in the south to Kent in the east, and they had a number of structural causes.

* 1861: Civil War causes the Union troops to abandon forts and head east.

This system causes confusion at the southern boundary of the City of Calgary as streets in Calgary are numbered east and west of Centre Street, which is some distance west of the Fifth Meridian.

Its distinctive appearance — its upper reaches are very steep and rugged, in contrast to the tidy fields on its lower westward-facing slopes and the relatively flat bogland to the east — causes it to dominate the landscape for miles around.

Electric charge is a physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when near other electrically charged matter.

* 1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

Lesbian-feminism was a youth-oriented movement: its members were primarily college educated, with experience in New Left and radical causes, but they had not seen any success in persuading radical organizations to take up women's issues.

Other causes include experience of sexual abuse, assault, trauma, or neglect, body image issues and sexual performance anxiety.

Between 2000 and 2010, four out of ten households ( 41 %) reported having experience displacement: 29 % reported displacement caused by armed groups ’ movements, 9 % identified ridos ( blood feuds ), and 9 % identified other causes, such as economic displacement ( 3 %) or natural disasters ( 2 %).

The experience causes himself and his associates ( King Mosiah's sons ) to become converted to the Lord and to build up his church.

This saves A the work of sending it along an expensive trans-Atlantic link, but causes the message to experience latency 125 ms when the other route would have been 20 ms faster.

In this work, Bernoulli posited the argument, still used to this day, that gases consist of great numbers of molecules moving in all directions, that their impact on a surface causes the gas pressure that we feel, and that what we experience as heat is simply the kinetic energy of their motion.

One definition of " nightmare " is a dream which causes one to wake up in the middle of the sleep cycle and experience a negative emotion, such as fear.

While most of those who experience anger explain its arousal as a result of " what has happened to them ," psychologists point out that an angry person can very well be mistaken because anger causes a loss in self-monitoring capacity and objective observability.

Describing the causes of the Intifada, Benny Morris refers to the " all-pervading element of humiliation ", caused by the protracted occupation which he says was " always a brutal and mortifying experience for the occupied " and was " founded on brute force, repression and fear, collaboration and treachery, beatings and torture chambers, and daily intimidation, humiliation, and manipulation "

The slightest movement of the rib cage causes a sharp increase of pain, which makes it very difficult to breathe, and an attack is therefore quite a frightening experience, although it generally passes off before any actual harm occurs.

The show derived its name from the slang term " buzzkill ", meaning a sudden undesired event that causes one's " high " or " buzz " to become of a lesser experience or depleted.

Her lack of experience with people causes her to make straightforward, often tactless remarks, which soon put her at odds with other Scooby Gang members, especially Willow, who has little trust for the ex-demon.

The nature of these vibrations is determined by each man's past experience, and by the circumstances of the moment, which causes one or another tendency to prevail over the rest.

It seems to appeal to common-sense because we are surrounded by such everyday occurrences as a child's touching a hot stove ( physical event ) which causes him to feel pain ( mental event ) and then yell and scream ( physical event ) which causes his parents to experience a sensation of fear and protectiveness ( mental event ) and so on.

The extent to which animal testing causes pain and suffering, and the capacity of animals to experience and comprehend them, is the subject of much debate.

Briefly, he came to the conclusion that we could come to know an external world through experience, but that what we could know about it was limited by the limited terms in which the mind can think: if we can only comprehend things in terms of cause and effect, then we can only know causes and effects.

The true method of study is that applied with so much success in the physical sciences: critical examination of the given experience, and reference of it to ultimate causes, which may not be perceived, but are nevertheless hypotheses necessary to account for the facts.

An individual's experience of receiving incompatible or conflicting requests ( role conflict ) and / or the lack of enough information to carry out his / her job ( role ambiguity ) are causes of role stress.

In clinical psychology, magical thinking is a condition that causes the patient to experience irrational fear of performing certain acts or having certain thoughts because they assume a correlation with their acts and threatening calamities.

This causes a contradiction to arise between the true perception of an object's size and the smaller perception of the object, and micropsic bias ultimately causes the individual to experience micropsia.