It was a still afternoon, and billowy white clouds were reflected in the water.
The storm's fury was felt online, as well, when digital clouds were knocked out by real ones.
Charcoal clouds were piling above the mountain summits to the south.
The attack continued, but De Villiers finally pulled Broad to mid-on, and by the time Ryan McLaren walked out the storm clouds were gathering.
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By pitch seven, storm clouds were rapidly building across the valley.
Visibility was three miles, but the clouds were at 400 feet.
She and her colleagues found that 80% of the variation in the climate sensitivity predicted was due to changes in how clouds were described in the model.
It figured that out in the 1930s as storm clouds were gathering in the Pacific, correctly anticipating that America might need to conduct an island-hopping campaign against entrenched Japanese forces.
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The two clouds were separated by about half a meter, and were constantly affected by a combination of lasers and magnets, which had the effect of maintaining the entanglement for about an hour.
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However, after three years of observations of low stratus, cumulus and stratocumulus clouds over land, Anthony Del Genio of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies discovered that when air temperatures were higher, clouds were thinner and thus less capable of reflecting sunlight.
The flames that were pouring clouds of smoke out of the Poudre Canyon all weekend were now facing us.
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Some had suggested putting filters on top of skyscrapers to filter air pollution from the clouds, but were met with laughter.
While there were clouds over much of Wall Street on Friday, the solar-energy industry was having a good day thanks to analyst upgrades and expansion deals.
"There were already clouds over the company, " says lead investor Jean Deleage, now with Alta Partners.
He introduces the half-dozen main types of clouds as if they were his oldest friends: there is the towering, thunderous cumulonimbus, the beautiful cirrus, the fluffy, fine-weather cumulus.
Earlier in the day new fires, explosions and clouds of smoke or steam were spotted.
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All around us were the unfriendliest clouds I'd ever seen, mottled gray and black, fuming.
Mr Reitzle managed to pull all this off in the autumn of 2006, just as the storm clouds of the credit crunch were forming on the horizon.
Wall Street guru Bob Brusca said recently that there were no dark clouds on the US economic horizon ... then thought a minute and said, but for oil.
But skygazers in the south of England were left disappointed as clouds spoiled their views of the spectacle.
Within a year of the buyout, there were again bad smells and clouds of flies.
And it was this fact that made Dr Gadian and his colleagues wonder what would happen to hurricanes if that effect were amplified by making the clouds brighter.
Computer special effects were used to combine sequences and add water, fire, clouds and rain.
There were cheers and claps as the shuttle climbed high into the clouds, engines burning with violent intensity.
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You remember when you were little and you would keep checking the sky for snow clouds on the offchance that you got a snow day?
Mr. RANDY SHEPARD (Fire Incident Officer, Washington): There were some very large smoke columns that looked like huge cumulus clouds that develop over the fires.
The white sun was still cool and the animals were cautiously on the move: wildebeest were calving and zebras grazed, their brush-like tails swishing at clouds of pestering tsetse flies.
Meteorologists were once limited to a top-down or bottom-up look at clouds.
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