8 sentences with 'cloud'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cloud and other words derived from it.
• « How does one charge a thunderstorm cloud with electricity to such a degree to produce a lightning bolt? The process is very complex and little understood. »
• « The energy stored in the storm cloud is then dispersed in the form of a "stepped guide"; that is, it forms a network of angular currents, too faint to be detected by the human eye. When one of them comes snaking about 30 meters above the ground, the earth can take no more and lets out a monstrous "bounce discharge", a tremendous emission of light that shoots upward along the path opened by the guide into the cloud. »
• « My daughters don't need me to tell them which cloud looks like a rabbit and which looks like a dog. »
• « The cloud of radioactive material spread the tremendous drama beyond the borders of the former USSR. The latest radiation measurements have identified "hot spots" in Sweden, south of the town of Gavie, some 150 kilometres from Stockholm. »
• « This is where Saharan sand has been moving through the atmosphere for as long as the world has existed. Meanwhile, cloud formation over these areas is infinitely less now (of course, they were always areas of markedly low rainfall). »
• « Seas absorb heat in summer and release it into the atmosphere in winter; they have different temperatures, which affect cloud formation, winds, precipitation and atmospheric circulation in general. Hence its importance as a global climate moderator or regulator. But there are unusual events that disrupt this natural order. »