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freak weather conditions

Freak weather conditions do strange things to animals.

Langtoft is perhaps most notorious for its record of freak weather conditions and violent storms.

"You get them in freak weather conditions.

Frostbite forced them to abandon the expedition.In 1988 and 1989 they were defeated by freak weather conditions.

Sanctaphrax (already devastated by the freak weather conditions) was on the very edge of the Mother Storm.

There seem to have been little effort to systematically produce these wines during this period, and their production was probably the rare result of freak weather conditions.

"Freak weather conditions?"

Spokesman Andrew Davis said: 'We believe freak weather conditions may have caused an inversion, but it is difficult to be certain at this stage.

Chapter 11 Peter tried to follow the tri-d meteorologist's report on the latest freak weather conditions that seemed worldwide, Bangladesh being the worst example.

These worrying freak weather conditions may be the result of global warming, which, it is a well-known fact, is itself exacerbated by the greenhouse effect caused by CO2 emissions.

We were steaming into an area where the Pilot's thirty-year observation tables give the number of days with wind speeds over Force 8 as nil, but freak weather conditions are always possible.

"The foremost reason for the speed this year has to be due to the freak weather conditions that allowed the multihulls to sail on a reach," said Tony Fairchild, a race spokesman here.

I would like to know why the 'one-off freak weather conditions' that we experienced in the summer of 2007 have repeated themselves every summer since; given that they were supposed to be a one-off.

Only freak weather conditions, which had been part of their reason for visiting the station earlier in the year, had so far prevented the lethal rain from falling in this area of Swedish Lappland.

Mr President, the Commission is aware of the difficulties referred to in the question, which were caused by this snow storm and the freak weather conditions in the Nyre Valley in Ireland.

Local weather conditions play a key role in influencing wind speed, as the formation of hurricanes, monsoons and cyclones as freak weather conditions can drastically affect the velocity of the wind.

However, the area which 'A' Squadron had to cover was far too large, several of their jeeps were lost through parachute failures, and the squadron was greatly hampered from first to last by appalling freak weather conditions.

The managers and guides, testifying at the weeklong trial attended by members of the victims' families, denied wrongdoing and said that the raging torrent came without warning, the result of freak weather conditions that could not be predicted.

A rookie NY Times reporter is sent on a murder case (the pimp) and is then sent of to do a story in Seattle where he finds another victim here whilst trying to report on freak weather conditions.

In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, they are "embarrassed" that Calvin's mother thinks a rune (in this case a spoken charm or prayer) might help to prevent a nuclear war, and doubt that freak weather conditions are related to either the rune or the nuclear threat.