Heat wave in the West ABC News In the West, an early season, summer-like heat wave from Seattle and Portland, Oregon, into central California is expected over the weekend and could bring major, record-breaking heat. An excessive heat watch is in effect for Seattle and Portland Saturday...
The nation’s top emergency response agency has long been a lifeline for cities and states struggling with disaster. When hurricanes strike, earthquakes rattle, and tornadoes carve paths of destruction, the Federal Emergency Management Agency moves in to provide critical resources and aid. Yet fo...
Apocalyptic-looking plumes of smoke filled skies east of Los Angeles as firefighters battled three major wildfires that erupted amid a blistering heat wave.
line - a formation of people or things one behind another; "the line stretched clear around the corner"; "you must wait in a long line at the checkout counter" diagonal - an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard; "the bishop moves on the diagonals" formation - ...
• The series moves to the streets of Long Beach for Round 3 and Andretti's Kirkwood secures his first pole -- the team's second in three races -- as the Floridian goes on to dominate the race and take his first IndyCar victory. ...
However, the continuous flow of electricity can only be maintained if some aspects of the circuits, such as the frequency, are manually tuned as the object moves. So, either the energy transmitting coil and receiver coil must remain nearly stationary, or the device must be tuned automatically ...
The algorithm computes the Voronoi diagram for a set of points, moves each point towards the centroid of its Voronoi region, and repeats. Important concepts: Convergence - every point that is being "relaxed" is moving towards the center point of a Voronoi cell, but due to computational limits...
In just the past few months, a heat wave scorched Europe, then moved to Greenland to cause record ice melt there; record fires are tearing across the Amazon rainforest, Russia and the Arctic; Hurricane Barry flooded parts of Louisiana and U.S. farmers got hit with a heat wave after suff...
With terrifying speed, the bear comes to life and moves toward the whale. In a moment it is over, and the bear eats his first meal in nearly a week. Polar bears rule the frozen sea, but their ancestors weren’t always built for ice and snow. The first Arctic bears were brown bears...
The change in temperature of a mass of air as it moves upwards is called as adiabatic lapse rate. The dry adiabatic lapse rate (DALR) and the moist adiabatic lapse rate (MALR) are 9.8 and 4.9 °C/km respectively. Actual change of temperature with altitude for the stationary atmosphere or...