Sentence examples for a blocking pattern from inspiring English sources

A blocking pattern over Atlantic Canada caused the storm to drift at forward speeds under 5 mph for four days.

• Sandy was particularly destructive because it was prevented from moving back out to sea by a "blocking pattern" associated with the jet stream.

The settled conditions were caused by a blocked pattern in the atmosphere in which the "normal" westerly winds were held at bay by a blocking high pressure system that lingered for much of the month.

It is nomenclatural to consider the initial steps of the filtration process which should correspond to a complete blocking pattern.

PC-3 tumours and GRPR-expressing pancreas showed a comparable blocking pattern for all analogues indicating GRPR-specific uptake.

Our temperatures have been so cold mainly because of what can only be described as an historic blocking pattern.

My colleague on the opinion side of The Times, Andrew Revkin, posted an analysis from Dr. Francis this week in which she noted that an atmospheric blocking pattern over Greenland — possibly linked, in her view, to the loss of sea ice in the nearby Arctic Ocean — had helped force the storm to make a left turn into the United States mainland.

The blocking pattern over Greenland also stalled an arctic front, which combined with the cyclone.

Blocking patterns have been linked to several noteworthy extreme weather events, such as the deadly 2010 Russian heat wave and Pakistan floods, the 2003 European heat wave, and the March heat wave of 2012 in the U.S. In this case, the blocking pattern occurred at precisely the wrong time -- when a hurricane was moving out of the Caribbean.

The whole blocking pattern we're experiencing should break down by the middle of April, if not perhaps a little sooner.

In the case of Hurricane Sandy, two major factors contributing to the size and strength of the storm were unusually warm ocean surface temperatures and an increase in blocking patterns, both of which are expected to occur more frequently due to global warming.