After a few minutes, the feeling was not unlike that of sitting atop the Grand Teton, if you were to factor out wind, cold, vistas, exhaustion, vertigo, and the problem of getting down.
Grandmama Dinah Miller, a slave who died at age 102 in the 1930's, would lay down the quilt, the single material legacy of her mother, on the gaping floorboards as protection from the wind, cold and dust.
But now we are all one element — snow, river, me, fish, wind, cold, even the road-killed deer up on the highway, where the ravens and magpies, and a lone coyote, have settled in for a feast.
So it was 10-6 at half-time, the wind cold and swirling, and the rain making things extra difficult: Rome, Edinburgh and Twickenham on the Six Nations final day seemed a long way away, then two of the players with only minor roles on that day, Chris Cusiter with Scotland and Cipriani with England, combined to create the game's only memorable moment.
Crop yield is mainly affected by droughts, heavy wind, cold spells, and hail.
Other hazards mentioned, included earthquakes (7 participants) and 5 or less participants named landslides and meteorological factors such as wind, cold, heavy rain and flooding.
Here in the northern hemisphere the days have become shorter, and the wind colder.
The unidentified family had been sailing a small vessel west of Monterey Bay, where strong winds, cold water and big swells made for perilous conditions.
Within the belts of the westerly winds, cold easterly winds from polar regions meet the warm westerly winds of the middle latitudes, causing the formation of the traveling depressions characteristic of middle latitudes.
Until recently, it seemed as though this might be an old-fashioned winter after all, with driving winds, cold rain, and even a dusting of snow.
Milder serbihi winds, cold in higher elevation and cool/pleasant in lowland areas.
