Word: squall
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...Nurtured on complaints and resentments that were amorphous at best, it will be sated by "solutions" that are equally amorphous or symbolic. The alleged causes of populist anger will not disappear: the budget will remain unbalanced; lifetime professional politicians will continue to run the country. But, like a summer squall, the populist storm will pass. Or rather, like a small child's crying fit, the nation's populist frenzy will melt away with time and distraction...
Felsher sat in her office last Friday, preparing to celebrate with an evening of song at the Carlyle Hotel. Someone else would be singing, but that didn't matter. She gazed at a pair of landscapes on her wall--moody paintings of a squall blowing a shaft of rain across the desert--by Peter Hurd, a LIFE artist during World War II. The canvases "were just found in a closet, years and years ago," Felsher says. What would have happened had no one been there to protect them? Happily for us, Elaine...
...Vice-President, who had largely dodged the aspersions of anti-American sympathies that his boss received, is getting some of it too. On the political weathermap though, Letter-gate is clearly nothing but a squall, and a small one at that. The incident does, however, reveal some things about our Vice-President and about the nature of political life...
...weather with enough snowfall to close three mountain highways. Paris was hit with a torrential rainstorm -- the worst in a decade -- that crippled the city, poisoned the Seine with sewer effluent, and clogged the river with 300 tons of dead fish. In one hour in early May, a squall dumped a record 110 mm (4 1/3 in.) of rain on Hong Kong, turning steep city streets into rushing rivers and killing five. In the Middle East this January, the wettest, coldest winter in recent memory was capped by a storm that blanketed Amman, Damascus and Jerusalem with much more snow...
Even when the aged system is working, it has a blind spot for what meteorologists call "mesoscale" events, measured in minutes and tens of miles: tornadoes, flash floods, squall lines and thunderstorms. Some Weather Service offices do not issue a tornado warning until a human actually sights a twister -- by which time it is often too late to get out of harm's way. False alarms of flash floods have become so common that they are usually ignored...