windstorm
சூறாவளி
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Besides genetics, factors that keep most eastern old growth from soaring to the skies are thin, rocky soils and frequent hurricanes, windstorms , and ice storms.
a storm with very strong wind but little or no rain or snow; a gale.
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No matter how good your hay is today, between now and feeding time, every rain, every 'windstorm' , is going to steal nutrients from every exposed bale and stack.
He enjoys the experience of being in the center of the 'windstorm' for it is the only calm part of the tempest.
High on everyone's list of ominous prospects is the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, in northern Minnesota, where a freak 'windstorm' last summer turned half a million acres of trees into a massive pile of kindling.
When the tower came down, it brought fearsome rolling thunder and a 'windstorm' carrying concrete and steel.
While all natural disasters can bring destruction to an area, 'windstorms' typically produce the most damage.
Weather patterns are disrupted and clouds, rain and 'windstorms' are common reactions to the eclipse cycle, especially in the few days preceding an eclipse.
Rain storms and 'windstorms' and turbulent waves and whatever other kind of disaster existed had thrown itself at them.
In May of 2003, severe straight-line 'windstorms' struck the region, creating many small and a few large gaps.
Infection with mycotoxins is most common on grains damaged by insects, birds, mites, hail, early frost, heat and drought stress, 'windstorms' , and other unfavorable weather.
Meanwhile, extreme weather events are escalating: African floods, European 'windstorms' , Asian droughts, and so on.
The informants reported decreased yields owing to more pests, declining soil fertility, and the increased frequency of frosts, dry spells, and 'windstorms' .
Extreme precipitation events have increased by up to 4 per cent at high and mid-latitudes during the second half of the twentieth century, and more rainstorms, floods, and 'windstorms' are forecast.
Also, 'windstorms' from Gulf Coastal storms do induce significant damage in forests even farther inland than these mountain stands.
Ice storms occur in southern Canada and in the United States each year and, with a return time of 20-100 years, ice storms are more frequent than fires or 'windstorms' in the deciduous forests of eastern Canada.
It is clear from historical documents and radial growth chronologies that the logging and 'windstorms' that created stands of Castanea dentata and Betula, also released shade tolerant Tsuga canadensis into the canopy.
When ‘climate change’ is referred to in the press, it normally means greenhouse warming, which, it is predicted, will cause flooding, severe 'windstorms' , and killer heat waves.
Indeed, two major 'windstorms' that came through central Pennsylvania in quick succession appear to be the most likely explanation for the major releases that occurred around 1850.
Besides genetics, factors that keep most eastern old growth from soaring to the skies are thin, rocky soils and frequent hurricanes, 'windstorms' , and ice storms.
The 1850 event corresponds with the date of two intense 'windstorms' and was the only disturbance event large enough to recruit white pine.
Along with 'windstorms' and fire, beavers (Castor canadensis Kuhl) were major agents responsible for disturbance in eastern North America.
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