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A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) is a color photograph made by Jeff Wall in 1993. The large photograph is a rework version of the woodcut Yejiri Station, Province of Suruga ( c. 1832) by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai. The picture is displayed in a light box and it has the dimensions of 250 by 397 cm.
Squall. A squall is a sudden, sharp increase in wind speed lasting minutes, as opposed to a wind gust, which lasts for only seconds. [1] They are usually associated with active weather, such as rain showers, thunderstorms, or heavy snow. [2] Squalls refer to the increase of the sustained winds over that time interval, as there may be higher ...
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. [3]
Cold drop ( Spanish: gota fría; archaic as a meteorological term), colloquially, any high impact rainfall event along the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Drought, a prolonged water supply shortage, often caused by persistent lack of, or much reduced, rainfall. Floods. Flash flood. Rainstorm. Red rain in Kerala (for related phenomena, see Blood rain)
A wind gust or just gust is a brief, sudden increase in the wind speed. It usually lasts for less than 20 seconds, briefer than a squall, which lasts minutes. A gust is followed by a lull (or slackening) in the wind speed. [1] Generally, winds are least gusty over large water surfaces and most gusty over rough land and near high buildings.
Knowing the wind sampling average is important, as the value of a one-minute sustained wind is typically 14% greater than a ten-minute sustained wind. [15] A short burst of high speed wind is termed a wind gust ; one technical definition of a wind gust is: the maxima that exceed the lowest wind speed measured during a ten-minute time interval ...
The ride operator was assisting a child when the wind suddenly picked up, officials say. ... A festival worker was left clinging to the bottom of a ride after a sudden gust of wind lifted the ...
Chinook wind. Chinook winds, or simply Chinooks, are two types of prevailing warm, generally westerly winds in western North America: Coastal Chinooks and interior Chinooks. The coastal Chinooks are persistent seasonal, wet, southwesterly winds blowing in from the ocean. The interior Chinooks are occasional warm, dry föhn winds blowing down ...