Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pāgines |
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Pāgina 22
... rain . But if very cold air close to the ground lies beneath warmer air , rain coming down from the upper warm layers may refreeze , reaching the ground in the form of small ice pellets known as sleet . Finally , we come to freezing rain ...
... rain . But if very cold air close to the ground lies beneath warmer air , rain coming down from the upper warm layers may refreeze , reaching the ground in the form of small ice pellets known as sleet . Finally , we come to freezing rain ...
Pāgina 66
... rain , as in If the rain precedes the wind , Lower your topsails and take them in ; If the wind precedes the rain , Lower your topsails and hoist them again . In general , when rain precedes strong winds in the Northern Hemi- sphere ...
... rain , as in If the rain precedes the wind , Lower your topsails and take them in ; If the wind precedes the rain , Lower your topsails and hoist them again . In general , when rain precedes strong winds in the Northern Hemi- sphere ...
Pāgina 67
... rain soon . Expect it also when bears are restless , when wolves howl , when owls hoot , or when ravens crow . In one sense , all these old maxims are true ; it will rain sometime after each one of them . But that does not tell us about ...
... rain soon . Expect it also when bears are restless , when wolves howl , when owls hoot , or when ravens crow . In one sense , all these old maxims are true ; it will rain sometime after each one of them . But that does not tell us about ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
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