The climb to Camp 3 was a steep one along a ridge, and our speed slowed to a crawl.
I followed the direction of Charlotte's hand and saw a lone figure on a horse, belting at great speed across the ridge, in pursuit of four ponies.
On February 27, Cyclone Percy encountered a high pressure ridge which slowed its forward speed.
"A fairly well-defined hurricane", Isaac began to recurve around the periphery of a subtropical ridge while accelerating in forward speed.
For the rest, the E 300 BlueTEC is much the same as any other E-Class - roomy and mostly comfortable, although our test car had a rather bumby ride over speed bumps and ridges, which was all the more surprising given that it was fitted with those smaller wheels.
Slow rifting speeds carve a trough along the divide, while faster speeds leave a raised ridge, just as seen in the ocean.
But administration officials said today that Mr. Ridge had been getting up to speed behind the scenes, and had always planned to make his public debut today or Friday.
Under the influence of this new ridge the storm, which had been speeding northeast at 25 mph (40 km/h), turned to the north late on November 17.
Representative Jane Harman of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Homeland Security, said today that she sympathized with Mr. Ridge's need to get up to speed.
Embedded within a moderate east-southeasterly flow along the south side of a subtropical ridge, the typhoon accelerated, obtaining a forward speed of.
