Much like weather vanes in whirlwinds, some sensors in a vortex receive water flowing one way while those on the other side find it flows in the opposite direction.
From March to June the harmattan, a dry, hot wind that blows from the east out of the Sahara, sweeps the soil into dusty whirlwinds and is accompanied by daytime temperatures of about 104 to 113 °F (40 to 45 °C).
Blown sand does not rise more than a few feet (a metre or two) above the surface, except when picked up by whirlwinds, dust devils (jinn), or regional sandstorms.
Just in case I started to think that it was all too perfect, he started to tell me about "water tornados": mini whirlwinds that could lift a canoeist and his craft out of the water, but which – reassuringly – apparently happen only a couple of times a year.
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
He is a one-eyed, prophetic trickster capable of raising whirlwinds and leading the host of the dead through the skies.
Blake Danner, the executive vice president of the Empire Hotel, which also serves "Sex and the City" cocktails in its lobby bar, said the two shows shared a similar marketing appeal because visitors were looking to experience the social whirlwinds they portray.
In five decades of unforgiving literary production, he drowned it, scorched it, flayed it with whirlwinds, deluged it with Martian sand, even transformed it into a crystalline jungle populated by jewel-skinned crocodiles, people and parrots.
He deftly highlighted the tension in the opening section but often sounded bangy during the ensuing whirlwinds.
It didn't help that his paintings, because of their surface complexity and whirlwinds of tiny detail – scratches, erasures, drips, penciled fragments of Italian and classical verse amid scrawled phalluses and buttocks – lost much of their power in reproduction.
Whirlwinds of steel wire lacquered in bright colors, they not only serve the practical purpose of holding an umbrella (or wastepaper, as the designer intended), but also look like sculpture — a plus, she said, because many entry halls are so small that "you don't have room for a piece of art".
