As the only professional who speaks about science in an atmosphere of 30-second sound bites, weather forecasters are often asked to gauge an opinion on anything that may touch upon a scientific topic, although they may have scant knowledge of the field.
If buyers don't bite as the weather warms up, a price drop could be in its future.
We also included the effects of weather on Anopheles biting rates, demographic parameters, the duration of the Plasmodium life cycle on temperature (Martens 1998), and the dependence of the emergence rate of adult mosquitoes on precipitation, which influences the dynamics of immature vectors [see Supplemental Material, (doi 10.1289/ehp.0901256)].
Weathered a week of biting criticism.
There's no way for anyone to know how a particular apple has weathered all of this without biting into it.
For years, people living near East 91st Street and Second Avenue have complained about swarms of biting mosquitoes that periodically plague the area, even in cold weather.
LONDON — Northern Europe remained in the grip of arctic weather on Friday after a week of blinding snow, biting winds and plummeting temperatures.
The weather during our visit was thrillingly Romantic, too: hectic sunshine, biting gale, squalls of rain and enormous, racing, white clouds.
It was a perfect weather day, we had great seats, the game was nail biting, and the hot dogs delicious.
Trop., biting, disposed to bite.
