The male has a loud, far-carrying song which is delivered even in wet and windy weather, earning the bird the old name of "stormcock".
The show's main host is Jim Cantore, whose intense, in-the-field storm reporting has, in weather circles, earned him the title "the Mike Wallace of meteorology".
As it was a bright, lovely day in mid-December — Medellín's perpetual springlike weather has earned it the nickname "City of Everlasting Spring" — we felt no trepidation about walking through the favela to the three giant black slate boxes that form the neighborhood's public library, the Biblioteca España.
Hewitt appeared to have earned a weather reprieve yesterday.
His strategies -- which include booking the last flight of the day, telling the check-in clerk or gate agent that he is willing to give up his seat even before an announcement has been made and praying for bad weather -- have already earned him more than $2,800 in flight vouchers so far this year.
He stuck it out in foul weather early in 1998 and earned himself a trip to Amsterdam, where he played his way back onto the Rams' squad.
Pettitte, after missing two months with a broken bone in his left ankle, will pitch Tuesday in his 499th regular season game — weather permitting — against Toronto with an earned run average (3.22) that is his lowest in six seasons.
Waters was already a legendary singer — she introduced "Stormy Weather" at the Cotton Club — when she earned a supporting actress nomination for Elia Kazan's 1949 drama "Pinky".
WITH the money she earned by working in all weather, in the hours when the rest of us slept, Annie bought Chelsea a used Toyota Tercel.
Along with completing the season-series sweep by winning at Buffalo for the first time since 1996, Miami also earned a rare victory in cold-weather conditions.
