With the rain drifting down and the wind behind them in the second half, Leinster pounded away at Edinburgh's defensive line but the visitors showed great organisation and heart as, despite being out of the tournament, they played right until the final whistle.
Both houses of the New York State Legislature have approved an innovative measure aimed at reducing the amount of sulfur dioxide, the chief cause of acid rain, that drifts into New York from coal-burning power plants in Midwestern and Southern states.
It is widely known that radiation has done much to change the very nature of the world, the very nature of its life; strontium 90, released into the air through nuclear explosions, comes to earth in rain or drifts down as fallout, lodges in soil, enters into the grass or corn or wheat grown there, and, in time, takes up its abode in the bones of a human being, there to remain until his death.
The clouds, heat-frazzled, gave up on rain and drifted empty across the wide sky.
Trade-wind rain clouds drift in over the volcano's low eastern rim, often accumulating in the crater's centre.
"Nadisa" and "Ambupati," for example, resemble rain clouds drifting over water, while in "Lavana," the clouds dissipate into mist.
For two decades Yancey and Rhett have shouted secession whenever so much as an ominous rain cloud drifted down from the North.
And then her voice, buffeted by the winds and assaulted by the rain, came drifting down like a leaf: 'Dad!' she called.
We approached Pittsburgh through a drizzly scrim of rain, then drifted through its version of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, an old blue-collar quarter called Lawrenceville.
