Geologists theorize that the rocks slide after rain moistens the top few centimeters of the lake bed and a high wind pushes them around.
Thus, the farmer usually attempts tillage of such soils only after a slow rain has moistened the clods and made them friable.
The rain will moisten soil, partly replenish reservoirs, may help save some crops and above 5,000 feet it will bring snow, boosting struggling ski resorts.
In the usual way of things, clouds will darken the world, rain will moisten it, but snow makes it completely strange, not our world at all, so that the waking day becomes a dream.
In other words, it was one thing to infuse a computer with data about global oil production or meningitis, but quite another to teach it all the millions of concepts that humans absorb through daily life-for example, that red is not pink or that rain will moisten a person's skin but not his heart.
After winning the Australian Open, he beat Nadal in the final at Indian Wells in March; again in Miami in April; once more in Madrid, in May, and then— in what may have been the most surprising of the victories — in Rome on the sort of slow, rain-moistened clay Nadal just does not lose on.
Saturday night rains will moisten the Sunday air.
When enough rain falls to moisten and split the cocoon, the bullfrog surfaces, usually once a year around November, to eat and mate.
Second, perhaps bats avoid rain because the moistening of their body inflicts energy costs on flight by reducing lift and thrust production, or by adding thermoregulatory costs.
Anecdotal evidence had suggested that when the soil was moistened by rain, the fat animals would dig new tunnels, looking for love by connecting with another colony.
According to legend, the impish goblins like to materialize in dark, humid corners, mostly after dusk, and sometimes when the air moistens with rain.
