It's been snow, wind and more snow around here with weather dipping well into minus double digits.
Sure enough, Ronnie backs up, hits that handbrake again – big on the handbrake, Ronnie; safety first, especially in this wet weather – dips his head and half-forms his hand into a fist.
With the weather dipping down into the low 30s at night, the need for layers allows partiers to creatively layer hoards of faux-fur with sparkling vests and glowing boas; at one point during the weekend, I even spotted somebody in the crowd wearing a full-body cactus jumpsuit.
Early this morning, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, were stunned to discover that the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) spacecraft, presumably entering orbit for a 2-year mission to study martian weather, had dipped too far into the atmosphere on its arrival and perished.
Here the weather regularly dips below freezing, and the whole area has limited plumbing and sanitation.
Soup sales sag in summer, and charging up to $7 for 12 ounces of steamy brew is often not enough to make up for the hot-weather dips in patronage and revenue -- a problem aggravated when overexpansion causes too much money to be spent on opening too many shops.
A major problem with the guns on the main deck was that they were mounted low in the ship only about 10 feet above water at deep load and were unusable at high speed or in heavy weather as they dipped their muzzles in the sea when rolling more than 14°.
Despite uncharacteristically frosty weather, with temperatures that dipped into the low 30's and felt even colder, they waited for hours in line to get into the outdoor rally, blankets wrapped over their parkas and wool scarves twisted around their heads.
Industry experts -- watching yesterday as wholesale oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange dipped and weather forecasts called for milder temperatures -- said that prices would fluctuate for the rest of the season but would probably remain high, in part because of persistently low supplies.
On one of the coldest days in recent history there, after 4 days of subzero weather during which temperatures dipped to -11°C in some areas, wind turbines played a key role in maintaining power for millions of homes.
