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This storm event was similar in nature to a hurricane.
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Experiments have shown the importance of temperature but the trigger event, especially in arid regions, is often a storm.
On 13 April 2004, much of the mountain was blanketed by an accumulation of hail during a storm, an unusual event that caused a commotion among the local community in Cerro El Pital, El Salvador.
* 2000 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
Chapman and Ferraro proposed that a plasma was emitted by the Sun in a burst as part of a flare event which disturbed the planet's magnetic field in a manner known as a geomagnetic storm.
The largest snow event since 2000 was on January 16, 2003, when Nashville received of snow in a single storm ; the largest on record was, received on March 17, 1892.
On the night of 4 October 1892, during a heavy storm, Paul Valéry underwent an existential crisis, an event that made a huge impact on his writing career.
In the event, Henry Tudor's ships ran into a storm and had to go back to Brittany.
* July 14 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
** The-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board ( an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot ).
So, between the large spring runoff and a heavy summer rain storm, whichever resulted in more runoff would be considered the extreme event, while the smaller event would be ignored in the analysis ( even though both may have been capable of causing terrible flooding in their own right ).
The third assumption is only a problem if you are trying to forecast a low, but maximum flow event ( say, you are tying to find the max event for the 1-year storm event ).
The second way to decrease the uncertainty of the extreme event is to forecast a value which is less than the maximum observed value ( e. g. the maximum rainfall event on record is 5. 25 inches / hour, so the 100-year storm event should be less than this ).
Suitable vehicles for Turner's imagination were to be found in the subjects of shipwrecks, fires ( such as the burning of Parliament in 1834, an event which Turner rushed to witness first-hand, and which he transcribed in a series of watercolour sketches ), natural catastrophes, and natural phenomena such as sunlight, storm, rain, and fog.
Massachusetts ' geographic location, jutting out into the North Atlantic, also makes the city very prone to Nor ' easter weather systems that can dump more than of snow on the region in one storm event.
The geomagnetic storm causing this event was itself the result of a Coronal Mass Ejection, ejected from the Sun on March 9, 1989.
A large geomagnetic storm can affect electric power grids at all latitudes, A storm as large as the 1859 event could disable the entire electric power grid in Eastern Canada and Eastern United States.
* October 19, 1989, a large solar event included the full array of space weather effects: Solar Energetic Particles, Coronal Mass Ejection, Forbush decrease, ground level enhancement, geomagnetic storm, etc ..
In the event of an intermediate sized storm system in the area, 100 % of the land area becomes submerged in no less than 3 feet of water.
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It was dark early, because of the storm.
you had to go with 'em or wait till the storm was over, and follow.
Such marchin' in wholesale numbers was called a `` drift '', or `` winter drift '', and if the storm was prolonged it usually resulted in one of the tragedies of the range.
But the Royal Motel in Shamrock was the only one that offered the comfort and security of a storm cellar.
This was perhaps symbolic of the jazz of the evening -- flashes in the distance, but no storm.
It came to him as he wept there aboard the Somers that it was as foolish to strive for greatness as to seek to storm the gates of heaven.
The legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.
Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.
Alcott was one of several who attempted to storm the courthouse ; when gunshots were heard, he was the only one who stood his ground, though the effort was unsuccessful.
In these versions, when Ajax came to the Capharean Rocks on the coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a fierce storm, he himself was lifted up in a whirlwind and impaled with a flash of rapid fire from Athena in his chest, and his body thrust upon sharp rocks, which afterwards were called the rocks of Ajax.
After much experience at sea, including command of a ship that was saved in a storm by convicts, Phillip sailed with the First Fleet, as Governor-designate of the proposed British penal colony of New South Wales.
When this was rebuffed he made an attempt to cross back to Italy to collect his missing troops but was turned back by a storm.
One of the forces that worked as an impetus for his pressing forward was the first stirring of what would later be called Romanticism — the Sturm und Drang, or " storm and stress " phase in the arts, a short period where obvious emotionalism was a stylistic preference.
The previous record, 13, 200 cubic metres poured in 54 hours despite a severe tropical storm requiring the site to be covered with tarpaulins to allow work to continue, was achieved in 1992 by joint Japanese and South Korean consortiums Hazama Corporation and the Samsung C & T Corporation for the construction of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
It was also a collective decision within the government at that time to turn away two British warships that had arrived the day after the storm with supplies.
Charybdis was very loyal to her father in his endless feud with Zeus ; it was she who rode the hungry tides after Poseidon had stirred up a storm, and led them onto the beaches, gobbling up whole villages, submerging fields, drowning forests, claiming them for the sea.
" As soon as they set sail, such a storm arose that ship was driven ashore.
Many agricultural commodities were destroyed during the 1980 storm, and about 25 percent of the banana crop was destroyed by strong winds in 1984.
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In 1835 the steamer " Tigris " of the English Euphrates expedition went down in a hurricane just above Anah, near where Julian's force had suffered from a similar storm.
But there is no other such incident known from the long history of monarchs and others at the sport, and the case is suspiciously similar to the Roman legend of their first king, Romulus, taken by a sudden storm.
While the British P1903 and its similar predecessor, the P1888, had proved completely satisfactory in service, a storm of criticism soon arose regarding the effective reach of the new short rifles when equipped with fixed bayonet.
Lightning is a similar principle where the atmosphere is ionized by the high potential difference ( voltage ) between earth and storm clouds.
Fantasia is also referenced in the animated series South Park in the episode " Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls ", where Mr. Hankey dons a wizard outfit and drives out an independent film festival by summoning a wave of sewage, similar to Mickey's dream of summoning a storm in The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
A similar glyph is used in Mixtec codices as the day sign Water and it is likely that its meaning in Zapotec is identical, therefore being the appropriate glyph for the rain and storm god.
Pierce City, Missouri was also severely damaged by a similar storm in which five residents lost their lives.
Mary became well known as a healer, and first-hand accounts survive claiming that miracles occurred similar to miracles performed by Jesus, who calmed a storm and raised people from the dead.
The CID was renamed the " Internet Storm Center " in acknowledgement of the way it uses the distributed sensor network similar to the way a weather reporting center will detect and track an atmospheric storm and provide warnings.
Such rafts consist of matted clumps of vegetation that has been swept off the dry land by a storm, tsunami, tide, earthquake or similar event ; in modern times they sometimes also incorporate other kinds of flotsam and jetsam, e. g. plastic containers.
In late 2011, a storm drainage system has been built in the south Jeddah area ( similar to that of the Los Angelos storm drain ) to reduce the risk of floods.
In the Slavic version of the myth, Perun is a god of thunder, whilst Veles acts as a dragon who opposes him, consistent with the Vala etymology ; He is also similar to the Etruscan Underworld-monster Vetha and to the dragon Illuyankas, enemy of the storm god of Hittite mythology.
In the film, a team of storm chasers try to perfect a data-gathering instrument, designed to be released into the funnel of a tornado, while competing with another better-funded team with a similar device during a tornado outbreak across Oklahoma.
Although some evidence from the time describes events similar to a tsunami, there are also similarities to descriptions of the 1953 floods in East Anglia, which were caused by a storm surge.
In 1750, Ben Franklin hypothesized that a pointed iron rod would light up at the tip during a lightning storm, similar in appearance to St. Elmo's fire.
This type of storm has characteristics similar to a hurricane.
At about the same time, a similar arrangement was constructed at Sheepwash Urban Park, utilising old brickworks excavations as a storm water basin to relieve flooding by the Oldbury Arm.
The effect is similar to a storm surge like that caused by hurricanes along ocean coasts, but the seiche effect can cause oscillation back and forth across the lake for some time.
The same storm system that caused the 1995 seiche on Lake Superior produced a similar effect in Lake Huron, in which the water level at Port Huron changed by six feet ( 1. 8 m ) over two hours.
Only the fact that a system in 1906 had taken a similar path, as well as evidence showing that the storm had already begun to turn when seeding began, ended the litigation.
Although Noreasters can produce winds that are similar to those in hurricanes, they do not produce the storm surge that proved to be the 1938 storm's greatest killer.
Quiet storm music is similar to soft rock and adult contemporary styles, but it is more closely and unmistakably rooted in R & B and soul music, often with jazz extensions.
There were a further 25 gunboats similar to the Stege, of which 23 were lost in the October storm in the Kattegat or destroyed rather than be sailed to Britain – these lost were
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