The flooding threat is not over — and waters have been slow to recede in parts of the Delta — but it has been far less damaging than initially feared.
Nor is there even much of a partisan divide; solid Republicans like Eddie Lazear (pdf) say things like this: The recession of 2007-09 witnessed high rates of unemployment that have been slow to recede.
"We are seeing catastrophic flooding, and this will likely expand and it will likely persist as it's slow to recede," Louis W. Uccellini, the NWS director, said at the Monday morning briefing.
Anyone who's laid awake at night wondering what they're doing with their lives, who's noticed their ambitions receding in slow motion, and managed only a shrug in response they are Evan Winter.
The paleoclimatic record shows downward dips in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane during times of plague-related depopulation - when forest clearing would have slowed, animal husbandry receded and rice growing declined.
In Chile, glaciers are receding at a slower rate than in its tropical neighbours.
Where the slope into the methane was slow and gentle, the lakeshore receded the farthest; where there was a quick drop-off, against some mountains along the northern shore, the lake receded little.
Rigorous analysis of careful observations over a period of more than 200 years gradually revealed that, because of tidal effects (see tide), the rotations of both the Moon and Earth are slowing and the Moon is receding from Earth.
Now, if the rate at which the Hubble sphere expands is larger than the net velocity at which the photon recedes from us, the pulse will eventually pass from a superluminal region into a region receding from us slower than the speed of light.
This layer re-emitted much of the incident radiation back into the gas phase from its hot surface and thus reduced the transmitted flux to the receding PP layers below it, slowing the PP pyrolysis rate.
