This is a bold stroke: all-wheel-drive is increasingly popular on European sport sedans in this segment, with BMW and Volvo joining Audi -- and the Mercedes C-Class to follow -- in offering all-weather alternatives to sport utilities.
Next, imagine that piercingly pure apple flavor in a lightly carbonated, lightly alcoholic drink made subtly more complex through fermentation, and you have a tall glass of cool apple cider, a refreshing warm-weather alternative to beer or chilled wine.
The bean purée is a wonderful cold-weather alternative to tomatoes for bruschetta topping, and for those who hang on to summer for as long as possible, the tuna, bean and tomato salad is a last hurrah.
Although its open-air deck, next to an often active boat-filled creek is the choicest spot at Steamboat Landing, the airy dining room with its high ceiling and many windows, is a desirable bad-weather alternative that also offers a marine vista.
Songs like "What's the Matter Here," (like Ms. Vega's "Luka," an unlikely hit about child abuse), "Hey, Jack Kerouac" and "Like the Weather" became alternative radio hits.
Jeremy's brother Piers is well-known for devising an alternative weather forecasting system, which the farmer here still uses.
The maps displaying these data are called "spaghetti plots" because the lines representing each alternative weather situation for a week or two from the present wiggle across the screen like a tangle of pasta.
Knighton's predecessors at MSU came up with a cheaper alternative: weather balloons, $250-600 250-600 thapiece floathat altitudes of 100,000 feet.
This approach was compared with alternative weather modeling approaches.
But even if it has a winning claim, it must stay solvent for long enough to see the cases through.In contrast, those who have relied on its predictions on everything from the unemployment rate to the weather have plenty of alternatives.
Weather radars provide an alternative outlook.
