Climate change means cloudbursts are likely to happen more frequently.
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CLOUDBURSTS Collected and New Stories By Thomas McGuane 365 pp.
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Cut from a rat-fur horizon, cloudbursts let slip lightings small enough to hide behind your incisor.
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Or, if I'm feeling generous and evangelical, I might pass along "Cloudbursts," Thomas McGuane's book of new and collected stories.
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During unexpected cloudbursts, the next-door grandma would rush to bring in clothes that absent neighbors had hung out to dry.
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These tidal floods can have big impacts apart from the extreme effects of the hurricanes, tropical storms, and cloudbursts that are starting to arrive this summer.
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McGuane's second collection, "Gallatin Canyon," was published in 2006 and his third, "Crow Fair," in 2015; of the eight new stories in "Cloudbursts," six are of newer vintage yet.
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In total, rainfall over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands still hovers near its historical average, Velmurugan said - but now more of it comes during the monsoon, often in heavy cloudbursts.
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However close together the bulk of these pieces were written, "Cloudbursts" is clearly the product of a life's worth of thought and feeling and experience; it ought to be savored.
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New York, city officials said, needs to do better at dealing with weather phenomena that are becoming more common — cloudbursts, which are especially intense rainstorms that dump enormous amounts of water in a short time.
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Still, I was not surprised to see that McGuane did not include several stories from that first collection in "Cloudbursts," including its long and unsuccessful title story, or that some of the material he did use from it has been substantially revised.
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Another group of researchers drilled down to find that, in the center of India between 1950 and 2015, there was a threefold increase in what were once rare cloudbursts, those that dump 150 millimeters, or nearly six inches, or more of rain on a single day.
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"I stalked deer at dusk and fireflies at night, ran wet and exultant in cloudbursts and thunderstorms, and climbed to the tops of young pine trees to swing them in whipping circles," she wrote in "Paddling My Own Canoe," which was republished, along with all her other books, by Patagonia Books in 2018.
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During a cloudburst, more than of rain may fall in a few minutes. The results of cloudbursts can be disastrous. Cloudbursts are also responsible for flash flood creation. Rapid precipitation from cumulonimbus clouds is possible due to the Langmuir precipitation process in which large droplets can grow rapidly by coagulating with smaller droplets which fall down slowly.
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Rain occurs at any season. Severe localised rainstorms ('cloudbursts') may occur in the high country and have caused flash flooding including past inundations of Ōpōtiki township.
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It is not essential that cloudbursts occur only when a cloud clashes with a solid body like a mountain, they can also occur when hot water vapor mingles into the cold resulting in sudden condensation.
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A cloudburst is an extreme amount of precipitation in a short period of time, sometimes accompanied by hail and thunder, which is capable of creating flood conditions. Cloudbursts can quickly dump large amounts of water, e.g. 25 mm of precipitation corresponds to 25,000 metric tons per square kilometre (1 inch corresponds to 72,300 short tons over one square mile). However, cloudbursts are infrequent as they occur only via orographic lift or occasionally when a warm air parcel mixes with cooler air, resulting in sudden condensation.
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Winters are mild and wet. Winter is the rainy season, with major precipitation falling after November. The annual rainfall can reach to 1,232.7 millimetres (48.531 in); the rainfall is concentrated during scattered days in winter falling in heavy cloudbursts which cause flash floods sometimes in flood prone areas.
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Cloudbursts are responsible for virtually all of the region's annual precipitation, which totals less than . Such bursts happen when monsoon winds sweep into the region during July, August, and September. Such rainfall is highly erratic; regions experiencing rainfall one year may not see precipitation for the next couple of years or so.
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On the night of 24–25 June 2009, the village was hit by a sudden flood caused by a consecutive series of violent cloudbursts. Three people were killed and it caused extensive damage.Floods have claimed most victims in Jesenik nad Odra rozhlas.cz, June 252009The number of flood victims is already ten, high water threatens further, lidovky.
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Lahore has a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSh). The hottest month is June, when average highs routinely exceed . The monsoon season starts in late June, and the wettest month is July, with heavy rainfalls and evening thunderstorms with the possibility of cloudbursts. The coolest month is January with dense fog. The city's record high temperature was , recorded on 30 May 1944.
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The Little Colorado River (right)'s confluence with the Colorado River (center). Note that the Little Colorado is a light brown color caused by recent cloudbursts, while the Colorado is an emerald green. When Powell and his crew arrived here in 1869, it was this color of the river that they saw, while the Colorado's green color is caused by Glen Canyon Dam trapping sediment.The St. Josieph Brdge a.k.a.
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Occasionally, cloudbursts can occur in one part of Cherrapunji while other areas may be totally or relatively dry, reflecting the high spatial variability of the rainfall. Atmospheric humidity is extremely high during the peak monsoon period. The major part of the rainfall at Cherrapunji can be attributed to the orographic features. When the clouds are blown over the hills from the south, they are funneled through the valley.
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According to a streamflow gauge near Cameron, before the river enters the Grand Canyon, the river's average annual flow was from 1948 to present. The highest annual average was in 1973, and the lowest was in 2000. The river's peak flows can be far higher than its average flow, because of quick desert runoff from cloudbursts. At the same gauge, peak flows were recorded from 1923 to 2008, with spotty data from 1924 to 1947.
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A panoramic view of Pithoragarh Naini Saini Airport Pithoragarh is not connected by any direct train services, however it is well connected by road, and it also has an airport. The National Highway 9 passes through Pithoragarh. Landslides and cloudbursts, caused by heavy rains that fall during the summer monsoon, often interrupt transportation networks. The Pithoragarh Airport, also known as the Naini Saini Airport, is located about north-east of the city.
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The Indian Pass Wilderness Area is to the north with of open space. The Indian Pass Wilderness is a distinctive part of the Chocolate Mountains, a range which extends from south central Riverside County to the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona. Quartz Peak is the highest point in the wilderness capped at . Jagged peaks and spires are sliced by mazes of twisting canyons which carry water from occasional desert cloudbursts into several tree-lined washes.
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On-board radars can be deceiving. Hail shafts generate weak radar echoes and are significantly more dangerous than cloudbursts. Close to the ground, heavy rain (or snow at altitude) tends to dampen turbulence (it is said that when rain comes, most of the danger is gone). So a counter intuitive recommendation exists: it is better to fly toward the zone of heavy precipitation or toward the darkest area of the thunderstorm line.
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The area quebradas are susceptible to flash flood runoff from sudden cloudbursts. Tupiza plaza Tupiza is the capital of the Sud Chichas Province within the Potosí Department. It is accessible via bus from Villazón to the south (and thereby both Argentina and Tarija) and Potosí to the north, as well as via the north-south train which served the mining settlements and runs the same route. From Tupiza, various towns in the local mining districts are accessible, as is the Salar de Uyuni.
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Except during flash floods that occur after cloudbursts, most of the course of the Amargosa River is dry on the surface. The flow is generally underground except for stretches near Beatty and near Tecopa, California, in the Amargosa Canyon. In the canyon, the river passes through the Amargosa River Natural Area, a region of dense greenery and prolific wildlife made possible by the presence of water. The river arises at about above sea level in Nye County, Nevada, along the southern side of Pahute Mesa in the Nellis Air Force Range.
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Because of Panamint City's lawless reputation, Wells Fargo refused to open an office there. The senators solved the question of how to transport the silver bullion from the mines by casting it into 450-pound cannonballs, which were hauled to Los Angeles in an unguarded wagon. On July 24, 1876, a flash flood roared down the canyon and washed out most of the town. The County of Inyo maintained a graded road to Panamint City until about 1983, when a terrific series of cloudbursts completely washed the canyon out to bedrock.
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In 1922, the Tennessee Power Company merged with several other entities to form the Tennessee Electric Power Company (TEPCO). TEPCO tripled the capacity of Great Falls Dam by raising the dam and installing a second generator at the powerhouse downstream. The dam faced its first major test in March 1929, when several cloudbursts atop the Cumberland Plateau caused the Caney Fork to expand to record flood volumes, sending wreckage and uprooted trees crashing into the dam. The Great Falls Power House was flooded and a substation was destroyed, but the dam held.
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The 1953 North Kyushu flood was a flood which hit Northern Kyushu, Japan (Fukuoka Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture and Ōita Prefecture) in June 1953. The flood was caused by cloudbursts and prolonged rain from the Meiyu rain front which dropped 1,000 mm (3.3 ft.) of rain over Mount Aso and Mount Hiko. This downpour resulted in the overflow of many of the surrounding rivers, such as the Chikugo River. The flood was a major disaster with 1,001 people dead or missing, 450,000 houses flooded, and about 1 million people affected.
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The Loo mainly originates in the large desert regions of the northwestern Indian subcontinent: the Great Indian Desert, the Cholistan Desert and the desert areas of Southern Balochistan. monsoon. In some areas of North India and Pakistan, there are brief, but violent, dust storms known as Kali Andhi (or black Storm) before the monsoon sets in. The arrival of monsoon clouds in any location is frequently accompanied with cloudbursts, and the sudden transformation of the landscape from brown to green can seem "astonishing" as a result of the ongoing deluge and the abrupt cessation of the Loo.
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Sutherland was born as Audrey Helen Schufeldt in Canoga Park, California, in 1921. As a child, Audrey spent her summers in a cabin built by her father in the San Bernardino Mountains. There, she would explore the surrounding woods, ride horses, and learn about the local flora and fauna. In her book, Paddling My Own Canoe, Sutherland described her childhood summers at the cabin: “I stalked deer at dusk and fireflies at night, ran wet and exultant in cloudbursts and thunderstorms, and climbed to the tops of young pine trees to swing them in whipping circles.
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Not a ripple tilted the plane, but like > a ship that has crossed the bar, it moved within a tranquil anchorage. In an > unknown secret corner of the sky it floated, as in a harbour of the Happy > Isles. Below him still the storm was fashioning another world, thridded with > squalls and cloudbursts and lightnings, but turning to the stars a face of > crystal snow. Now all grew luminous, his hands, his clothes, the wings, and > Fabien thought that he was in a limbo of strange magic; for the light did > not come down from the stars but welled up from below, from all that snowy > whiteness.
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Task Force Oregon commander General William B. Rosson then ordered Matheson to shift his attention slightly north, to Base Areas 123 and 122. Both were more mountainous than 124 and were often drenched by cloudbursts leftover from storms brewing around the inland peaks near the Laotian border. If Matheson failed to find VC there, he was to assist the Quảng Ngãi province chief with the evacuation of all civilians from the Ve and Tra Cau Valleys. Whatever their political loyalties, these civilians had provided food and recruits for the VC. Matheson sent two battalions into Base Area 123 on 8 June and another into 122 the following day.
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The Arkansas River flooded from Florence, Colorado to the Kansas line June 3 to June 5, 1921 following cloudbursts west of Pueblo resulting in substantial loss of life and property. Following an earlier flood in 1894 the river though Pueblo had been channeled through levees with a capacity of 40,000 second feet. In the evening of June 3, warning of an advancing wall of water was made, but rather than fleeing, hundreds lined the levees to watch; 78 bodies were recovered. The extensive railyards were wrecked and the business section flooded as the levees broke under an onslaught of 100,000 second feet of water.
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Floods in Colorado include the flood of 1844 which filled the South Platte valley from "bluff to bluff""Floods in Colorado" Department of the Interior 1949 to the recent Denver floods of 1965 and the 2013 Colorado floods. Colorado floods are of two types: floods covering a large area resulting from heavy regional rainfall or snowmelt and flash floods resulting from isolated cloudbursts such as the Big Thompson flood of 1976. Upslope winds bringing Gulf moisture to streams draining the Colorado Piedmont, the Denver Convergence Vorticity Zone, at the western edge of the High Plains and to the streams of the Front Range are associated with most flooding. Floods on the Western Slope and in the San Luis Valley such as the floods of October 1911 depend on rare infusions of substantial Pacific moisture.
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" Robert Christgau, writing in The Village Voice, remarked: "I keep waiting for the moment when I need to put this away for a while, and it keeps not coming." Following the album's positive reception in the United States, The Meadowlands was issued in September 2005 in the United Kingdom, where it was likewise met with glowing reviews. Dele Fadele of NME stated that "The Wrens are indeed a revelation: not only for some unique achievements within the stifling parameters of indie-rock, but for a raw emotionalism, well offset by vitriolic sarcasm... Beguiling, affecting songs are then shot through with noise cloudbursts, psychedelic harmonies and glissando melodies." However, Q was far less enthusiastic, describing The Meadowlands as "a tortuous travelogue in the life of a band who've snacked so long on the fuzzy end of the indie rock lolly, they've forgotten the euphoric qualities that made them merely a half-decent proposition to begin with.
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From 1798 to 1814, Merxheim was French and found itself grouped into the Canton of Meisenheim, the Arrondissement of Birkenfeld and the Department of Sarre. After Revolutionary and Napoleonic French rule, Merxheim passed in 1815 under the terms of the Congress of Vienna to the Kingdom of Prussia, only to pass the very next year to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, under whose sovereignty it remained until the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, when the Kingdom of Prussia, having achieved hegemony over a great many German states in this war, annexed, among other places, Merxheim and assigned it to its new Rhine Province and, within this, to the Meisenheim district. Five years later, Merxheim found itself in the German Empire, but it remained in Prussia, one of Imperial, Weimar and Nazi Germany’s constituent states, until 1945, when Prussia as a distinct entity passed into history with its dissolution under Allied occupation. Other catastrophes also marked Merxheim’s history, such as the 1778 and 1788 cloudbursts, whose attendant mudslides destroyed houses.
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Alleged similarities in the characters, beginning with the protagonist lion cubs Kimba and Simba, include the evil lions, the one-eyed Claw and Scar, the sage baboons Dan'l Baboon and Rafiki, the animated birds Pauley Cracker and Zazu, and the pair of hyena sidekicks (it was a trio in the Disney film). The Lion King co-director Rob Minkoff deflected criticism of similarities in the characters by stating it was "not unusual to have characters like a baboon, a bird or hyenas" in films set in Africa. Both films feature the protagonist looking up at cloudbursts in the shape of his father lion, as pointed out by Frederick L. Schodt. The similarity is alluded to in a scene from The Simpsons episode "'Round Springfield", where a parody of Mufasa (voiced by Harry Shearer) in the clouds tells Lisa Simpson, "You must avenge my death, Kimba...dah, I mean Simba!"., note 53. (updated Dec 06, 2017) Matthew Broderick has said that when he was hired as the voice of adult Simba in The Lion King, he presumed the project was related to Kimba the White Lion.
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