On that chilly Monday, like that summer day, nothing in the air gave a clue about the swift impending changes, weather-wise.
Two days later they played a close game away to Burton Swifts in "dismal" weather; Small Heath led at half-time, Burton equalised 20 minutes into the second half, but Small Heath regained the lead and held on for a 3 2 win.
For one thing, as you soon realize, it rains all the time here -- each chapter beginning with a swift notation of the weather, be it Soaking, Wet, Damp or Almost Dry -- while those on the edge of their seats about the consequences of Davey's dramatic return have a long wait ahead of them: it is a full 100 pages before we get to spend some quality time with the guy.
SWIFT, and ionospheric space weather model, is discussed as an example.
The Bug Ban brought in $1 million in a year and then came to a swift collapse as the weather cooled in the fall of 1998.
The fall weather and the swift approach of the holiday season has us aspiring for some of our favorite things and settling in for a cold winter.
He digresses, offers swift rhapsodies on food, drink, clubs, weather, graffiti: monologues of pleasure, sensual fugues.
Once the weather improves, the adult swifts return to the nest laden with insects, and resume breeding.
Swifts are very vulnerable to wet weather, as a heavy storm may force them down on to the ground, from which they are unable to get airborne again.
Most of us, at some time in our lives, have known the extraordinary sensation of being gathered in, psychologically, by the weather -- by a storm too swift or winds too fierce or hail too big.
