Word: wind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conditions made racing frustrating, but they were worse yesterday, when the wind was even lighter," Levin said...
Indeed, the fickle wind hampered Division A's performance, and in the latter six races, MIT crept up in the standings. Its A team finished fifth in division, and its B team was third. Their combined scores were good for a second place overall finish...
Junior outside hitter Angela Lutich, who would wind up on the all-tournament team, led the Crimson with 11 kills in the match...
...Emanuel: global warming. Over coming decades, atmospheric pollution and the greenhouse effect are expected to heat not just the air but also the surface of the oceans, and it is the thermal energy of that water that fuels typhoons and hurricanes. As a rule of thumb, according to Emanuel, wind speeds increase 5 m.p.h. for every additional degree Fahrenheit of water temperature. By that formula, sustained winds in future hurricanes could conceivably top 200 m.p.h...
What makes hurricanes? They are, in essence, just big wind machines that move heat from the equator to the poles. While they do this very efficiently, the same task could be performed by swarms of independent thunderstorms. It takes a certain amount of magic, in other words, to set a hurricane in motion. First, you have to make the thunderstorms, and then "you have to get the thunderstorms dancing," as Florida State University climatologist James O'Brien puts it. "You have to get them dancing in a big circle dance...