Prevailing winds

The Cuckoo Music floods out from the nightclub. It sounds like safety. The rushing wind down the street doesn’t. Not anymore. His words blur together until all she can hear is the gravel of his voice, hard and grating. His voice is pleading but it’s merely a formality. Everything seems to happen in slow motion. Like they’re underwater. It’s cold but she doesn’t feel the icy wind blowing through her thin clothes. Her hands worry the hem of her shirt. Strands of hair blow across her face but…

For most of books, history has consisted of written or printed sheets of paper or any other material fastened together along one edge, so that the volume could be opened at any point in the book. The author of “Death Valley” went to New York University for college education. The author of “The Evil Swirling Darkness” went to Barnard College for her college education. “Death Valley and The Evil Swirling Darkness’’ have similarities and difference such as point of view and the setting of the two…

Have you ever been scared of a hurricane or tornado? I am, but I've never been in a hurricane or a tornado. I hope I'm never in one, but I kind of know what to do if I'm ever in one.You have to take shelter, and do much more. This is important advice too. So, these are the things you need to know about shelter, damage, and the cost of the damage they do. To begin with, if you see a tornado or find out a hurricane is coming to your city, take shelter. If you don’t have a cellar or a…

been known to acquire the properties of the surface it is covering if it remains there too long. When air masses forms over large surfaces that have uniformed temperatures and humidity, it creates what meteorologist call source regions. Due to the low wind speeds air mass allows the air to remain motionless long enough to take on the features of the source region, such cold or heat. When air mass has moved…

reading found there to be very similar substrate texture throughout all 22 quadrats with 17 recording a reading of 0 which is a composition of 100% sand and 5 recording a composition of 99.95% sand. The wind speed was found to have a positive significant effect with more curlews present during more wind. This goes against previous literature by…

The Very Best Way to Travel Through Scandinavia As we come onto the summer months and are making our travel plans, a great option will be a visit to Scandinavia. It is an extremely large area, the largest region in Europe, but has only about 4% of Europe's total population. Most of those people are congregated in city centers scattered around the large coastal areas, which means that if you want to get the most out of the least amount of time taking the sea routes is probably your best option.…

magine you're one of the about 1,670,217 tourists who cruise to grand cayman each year, you already have a great cruise booked to an amazing island, however there is still one more thing you need. A great hotel to make your vacation memorable, but since Grand Cayman is brushed or hit by a tropical storm or hurricane about once every 1.68 years and on average, a direct hit from a hurricane once every 5.3 years. However since a lot of people are paranoid, they will think that if they come that…

need to be with Agnes in her last few days outweighs his insistence on prioritising my health. I head towards the stables to collect my able horse to guide me through the mountain pass that connects to the valley where the Jonsson family resides. The wind is harsh upon my frozen body that reeks of sickness, I feel myself becoming lightheaded with each step I take towards the old wooden stable that has been upheld for many generations within Breidabolstadur. Stumbling back and forth, I struggle…

It seems that you cannot watch television or turn on your computer without seeing floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, fires or terrorist attacks happening all across the world. These threats can take devastating tolls on communities. In everyday life you don’t think something like that can happen to you or your community. Just look at what happened in 1998, a category five hurricane devastated Central America. Within hours, minutes, and even seconds, everything a person has and knows…

The beauty of the country is rendered by the mix-up of the high and lowland areas, rivers and lakes, including offshore islands. The Dominican Republic displays beautiful mountain ranges covered with forests, Pico Duarte being the highest mountain in the Caribbean and plains such as the Coastal Plain of Santo Domingo. Despite not having been blessed with natural lakes, The Yaque del Norte represents the longest river in here, crossing the most fertile area, The Cibao Valley. Turtles are the…