Sentence examples for storm upon from inspiring English sources

But the World Cup match yesterday was like a perfect storm upon that ocean, which only the Twitter craft was equipped to navigate – a real-time blow-by-blow, pithy jokes, puns and screencaps of crying fans were the requisite ingredients.

Eloise briefly attained hurricane intensity soon thereafter, but weakened back to a tropical storm upon making landfall over Hispaniola.

Despite being a much weaker storm upon impacting Russia, Saomai's rains flooded coal retrieval sites, cutting down on electric power supplies in Primorsky Krai.

With favorable conditions, the depression quickly intensified into a tropical storm; upon doing so, it was named Ekeka by the CPHC, which is Hawaiian for Edgar.

On July 9, it had operationally been classified as a tropical storm upon formation, though a later analysis revealed that it was only a tropical depression.

While post-storm analysis from the CPHC indicated that Fausto was a tropical storm upon emerging into the CPHC's area of responsibility (AOR), the storm was operationally classified as a tropical depression upon entering the AOR.

The storm came upon the men suddenly.

Whether a system holds up during the storm depends upon its size, the amount of vegetation anchoring the dunes and the storm's ferocity.

Representatives for the wireless companies say that it is difficult to know exactly how service will be affected until the storm is upon us.

The other biting smells are of Cedel ladies hair spray gluing their hats on in the wind; and the smell of a storm brewing upon Hobsons Bay that bit you in the heart as you stammered the word "Royboy".

Sweeping up from the South, shutting down malls and monuments and entire cities, this storm came upon us like a vestige of the past, as if the rising winds were somehow blowing us back in time.