7 sentences with 'weather'
Example sentences and phrases with the word weather and other words derived from it.
• « This attitude was shaped not only by all the things the ancients did not understand, such as disease, weather and death itself, but by the simple fact that it was often difficult to live by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which overflowed unpredictably and required constant work in order to be useful for irrigation. »
• « Due to constant weather patterns, the Nile floods at almost the same time every year (late summer), depositing huge amounts of mud and silt on its banks and making it one of the most fertile regions in the world. »
• « Also, new ten-day weeks were introduced, with new four-week months named for their weather rather than arbitrary historical figures (for example, the month of August, named after Augustus Caesar, was renamed "Thermidor", meaning "hot". February became "Brumaire", meaning "misty", and April became "Prairial", meaning "spring"). »
• « The weather was perfect when British Airways Flight 5390 took off from Birmingham, England, at 8:20 a.m. on the morning of June 10, 1990, bound for Malaga, Spain. »
• « The weather forecast called for a mild night and clear skies the next day. It turned out to be just the opposite: soon the sky became overcast and lightning foreshadowed a storm. »
• « As the weather worsened, the helicopter returned to Innsbruck, some 70 kilometres away. Another attempt would be made after the weekend. »
• « Grandmothers and grandfathers, on the other hand, can determine well in advance when a storm will hit according to the part of their body that hurts. The notion that the state of the weather has a direct bearing on the physical - and also on the state of mind - is as old as the disease. »