Word: weatherly
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...best weather of the season for cross country was a harbinger of things to come, as the Crimson cross country teams turned in their best performances in years by placing fifth on both the men’s and women’s sides at the Ivy League Heptagonals Championships at Van Cortlandt Park in New York on Friday. The men were paced by senior captain Brian Holmquest, who finished 14th in 25:15.1, good enough for All-Ivy honors for the second consecutive year. Despite the strong finish, Holmquest wasn’t satisfied with finishing outside...
...they were hanging tough.” Despite earning the victory, the Crimson lacked the offensive rhythm that it showed in last week’s four-goal effort against Princeton. Harvard strung together solid sequences of play, but they came in spurts. Whether a result of the weather or not, momentum shifted very quickly over the course of the game. “I think we could bring more intensity to games like this,” Mann said. Slick and damp from a morning downpour, the field prevented either team from gaining the upper hand. It was difficult...
...punishing gusts of the Santa Anas herald cursed weather, days and nights of devilish heat. Should a fire spark in the dry woodlands surrounding the region's cities and suburbs, the winds become a flamethrower, spreading glowing embers half a mile (800 m) or more. The Santa Anas have been midwife to the most destructive wildfires in California's history, from the Great Fire of 1889 to the 2003 disaster that blackened nearly 700,000 acres (280,000 hectares) of forest. Lifelong residents of the state know the Santa Anas and dread them. As Joan Didion has written, "The wind...
...situation was worsened by a relatively wet winter in 2004-05, which let trees and scrub grow densely, followed by extremely dry weather since, which turned the vegetation to still more fuel. In fact, this past year has seen the worst drought in Los Angeles' recorded history. Adding to the tinder were those Santa Ana winds, which strike regularly in the autumn but rarely with the power of the past week. "They usually come in small, medium and large," says Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "These were Godzilla winds...
...only the start - not just of future fires in future seasons but of more to come this year. The Santa Ana winds have just begun and typically peak in the winter. What's more, there is not likely to be much relief from drought conditions. The National Weather Service predicts a La Niña pattern this winter, which occurs when sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean are cooler than usual. La Niña usually translates to dryer and hotter weather in the American South...