There was a graininess to the air, which had itself warmed and grown windless, as it always did before a storm.
Perhaps this current quiet period is the calm before a storm.
The charges were later dropped on a technicality, but not before they had attracted a storm of international criticism.
Whether you realize it or not, your brain requires a calm before its storm.
Sometimes before a major weather event, an airline will seek to reposition its fleet so that the planes are in an ideal location for when the event ends, which may have been why so many cancelled flights more than a day before the storm.
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It's not likely that a weak storm that swirls harmlessly in the Atlantic before fizzling will be referenced in the future, but once a large storm ravages a coast, its name becomes infamous, Vaccaro said.
Parts of the state were under a blizzard warning before the storm moved to the east.
However, McLeish's side weathered the early storm before taking a firm grip with two goals in 12 minutes before half-time.
His firm, and others like it, are starting to turn out computer models that can estimate for an insurance company the cost of a storm even before it happens.
My cable went out last night just before primetime thanks to a bad ice storm.
Ashton's men made a fast start but were forced to weather a fierce Samoan storm before ending strongly with second tries for Martin Corry and Paul Sackey.
It doesn't take much imagination from even a brief visit--which I made a month before the cyclone struck--to see how devastating such a storm would be.
It noted that grosses and attendance figures in the fall were above the numbers generated a year before, but then the storm hit.
Then came wins over DePaul, Rutgers and Seton Hall before DePaul lost to the Red Storm for a second time.
Mr. SCHLEIFSTEIN: Well, the estimates before the storm for protecting the city from a Category 5 hurricane were that you would have to rebuild a large chunk of the city's levee system, add a whole bunch of rocks on waterways leading into Lake Pontchartrain and other parts of the area.
But, wearing the same clothes she was in when the storm hit two days before, which a friend had washed and pressed, Davis told me she wants to rebuild, even at 94.
More than three decades before the massive storm devastated the Atlantic coast, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions that would cause the towering storm surge, overwhelming flooding and widespread power outages caused by Sandy.
It added to problems that a lot of neighborhoods had been facing long before the storm of this recession.
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Seventh seed Roddick weathered a storm against Chile's Fernando Gonzalez before winning 6-3 3-6 4-6 7-5 6-2 in a big-hitting contest under the lights.
"Before we went to bed, there was a pretty bad storm, and the ship was really rocking, so our first thought was that we were sinking, because they said 'life jackets' and run, " Miller said.
If before we have our next storm, if we could get a committee together that could do general classes, I would go to a class.
Before it became a hurricane, ripple effects from what was Tropical Storm Alex created six-foot (1.8m) waves, according to the National Weather Service in New Orleans.
Westwind II got into difficulties during a storm in October last year and dragged its anchor before running aground in Weymouth Harbour.
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"Waiting too long to leave is another common mistake, and it could be a deadly one if the storm was to overtake you before you have successfully evacuated the coastal area, " he said.
The Toronto incident comes 10 months after metal scaffolding supporting stage lights fell onto a crowd of fans and workers as a storm swept through at the Indiana State Fair right before the band Sugarland was to perform.
Just last month, researchers led by Armin Arbab-Zadeh of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore published a comprehensive review of the biology of heart attacks in the journal Circulation, which said that vulnerable plaques often rupture without causing a heart attack and that a "perfect storm" of other conditions is required before one occurs.
The storm, which began in Montana before moving east, follows a series of heavy winter snowstorms that have dropped double-digit snowfalls in the Midwest.
Before the weekend was over, Casey was in the middle of a transatlantic storm and Colin Montgomerie's position as every drunk American golf fan's favourite European whipping boy looked precarious.
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