That could mean that changing wind patterns are sweeping warm air over some parts of the continent and cold air over others which may in turn be influenced by the ozone hole in the atmosphere.
My father collected flies for it; he had a way of gently sweeping the air with his open hand and then closing it on the insects.
His stylized show-biz posing (the bends and turns arm out-stretched and sweeping the air in front of him; little self-hugs with his head thrown back) is becoming a little disturbing, at moments even grotesque for a boy who's still a very skinny sixteen.
Speaking softly and with remarkable modesty, peppering his lecture with metaphors, Mr. Achebe talked with his hands, sweeping the air in an arc when referring to Nigeria, sometimes clasping his hands as though in prayer, pointing a long finger when speaking of the reign of dictators.
For that you can blame a windry mix: cold air rushing down from Canada, warm air sweeping up from the Gulf of Mexico, stormy air pouring off the Rocky Mountains, western air arriving on the jet stream.
WITH its three high-rise towers topped by a sweeping open-air SkyPark, the Marina Bay Sands casino, which opened on April 27th, is a striking addition to the Singapore skyline.
The test chamber was first evacuated, (ii) followed by injection of the NH3 gas of the required concentration by a micro syringe with the sweeping clean-air through the first inlet for determination of sensor response for 15 min.
It is deep, boulder-strewn and has strong drafts of air sweeping up from its floor.
He gets animated the more he talks, his arms sweeping through the air like a conductor, then swooping down suddenly like a drummer.
They were about 40 feet from the main road, Ocean Drive, witnesses told a park ranger, when a 20-foot-high swell exploded into the air, sweeping Clio, 7, her father, Peter J. Axilrod, 55, and five other people out to sea.
A mass of cloud over the country is like "a tablecloth being thrown across a table"; cold air sweeping south is like "a layer of treacle working its way across a plate of dessert".
