Sentence examples for unfavourable winds from inspiring English sources

The unfavourable winds were expected to continue throughout Wednesday.

In the Odyssey Aeolus gave Odysseus a favourable wind and a bag in which the unfavourable winds were confined.

It blamed unfavourable winds bringing ash from the eruption of Mount Raung near flight paths for its decision not to resume flights on Monday.

Many tales begin from someone's heedlessness – starting a sea voyage on a Friday, killing an albatross (Coleridge's poem itself perhaps encouraging this one), or annoying a witch (witches sailed in eggshells, which explains why eggs on boats brought unfavourable winds).

Virgin said the eruption and unfavourable winds made for unsuitable flying conditions on Wednesday morning and urged customers in Bali not to go to Denpasar airport until they had a confirmed rebooking.

The GlobalFlyer team raced to prepare the plane for takeoff after turbulence and unfavourable winds earlier that afternoon prevented the aircraft from taking off, leaving a window of just 25 minutes before the light faded completely.

Before that, Telica last erupted in 2011 when unfavourable wind conditions put some of the communities closest to the crater at considerable risk.

In unfavourable wind conditions, factors such as low wind speed, high turbulence, and constant wind direction change can reduce the power production of a horizontal axis wind turbine.

In the southeastern Pacific Ocean due to the cold sea-surface temperatures and unfavourable wind shear of the Humboldt Current, there are no records of a tropical cyclone hitting western South America.

Albatross-like animals larger than the limit will not be able to flap fast enough to stay aloft under unfavourable wind conditions.

It initially tracked westward and remained disorganized due to unfavourable upper-level wind shear.