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How to use the word moisture in a Sentence?

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It’s like making a cake, all the ingredients are there, the forcing aloft, the instability due to heating and the moisture source, it’s the perfect ingredients for severe weather.

Michael Berry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Do not drive them in the cold, do not drive them in the rain, do not drive them in any moisture — but yes, they are street legal.

Tim Kuniskis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Admittedly, I bought these because I thought the style was cool, but when I realized they were also a practical purchase, my pending buyer’s remorse disappeared, merrell’s Bravada Cord Wrap Sandals are great pool or beach day sandals that can withstand plenty of splashing. Because of my foot sweating problem, slip-ons and slides are not really options for me, and these securely-fastened sandals keep me stable while the moisture-absorbing footbed keeps me comfortable all day long when hiking in the heat.

Mia Maguire

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The moisture and heat from the lake surface water are absorbed into the atmosphere by storm systems, and then fall back to the ground as snow in the winter.

Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the primary drivers of wildfire re-burns in California was the moisture flux from plants during the late spring to early summer months.

Kurt Solander

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re still putting 162 million tons [of greenhouse gas] into it every single day and the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth, that’s what’s boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers, and the rain bombs, and sucking the moisture out of the land, and creating the droughts, and melting the ice and raising the sea level, and causing these waves of climate refugees.

Al Gore

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Typically, when we have widespread drought across the state, we end up with fairly high summer temperatures, especially maximum temperatures, because there's less moisture for evaporation.

John Neilson-Gammon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Other factors are more important for Gulf hurricanes, wind shear, mid-level moisture and having pre-existing disturbances that develop once they reach the Gulf( or track into the Gulf from elsewhere). Of course, if all those conditions are already there and the waters are warmer than normal, that could certainly exacerbate issues.

Phil Klotzbach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If nothing changes, in other words, if we don't start getting some moisture for Page, in particular, we are looking at an additional 25 to 30 % in power costs.

Bryan Hill

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We don't have that flux from the soil, from the fuels, the grasses and the vegetation, that...( give moisture back to the) atmosphere.

Andrew Church

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Because of climate change and the megadrought across the Western US and especially the Great Basin, there's no moisture in the soil anymore.

Andrew Church

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The size, shape and location of Tiwi Islands make them a perfect place for Hector to develop, sea breezes develop over the islands from all sides and meet in the middle. These converging winds, which are carrying moisture from the surrounding sea, have to go somewhere when they clash... so they go up. This rising column of air becomes cooler with height, which causes water vapour to condense into liquid droplets, forming clouds.

Ben Domensino

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I actually do think there could be some impacts to relief and recovery impacts for the worst-hit tomorrow, but by Friday it should be good. There is a slight chance of localized flooding with rounds of moisture like this.

Rob Shackelford

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It seems to me this is a storm that's going to help return some moisture to the soil in a significant way that should green up the hills and the fields a bit more than otherwise, and then, a big picture is that this is a storm that's going to set the stage for the watersheds to produce more runoff when the next storm comes, which is going to start filling the depleted reservoirs that they depend upon.

Marty Ralph

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Fuel moisture is very low, which means those fuels are ready. If there's any kind of spark, or something to start a fire, those fuels are primed and ready to just take off.

Carol Smith

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We had unusually high moisture and a very, very strong weather system that came through.

Chuck Hodges

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Another round of thunderstorms in a high monsoonal moisture environment is expected today, with a flash flood watch in effect for much of the region through Sunday morning.

National Weather Service

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Fabric technology evolved quickly from the ’80s through the early ’00s, providing more stretch, more security, better hand, moisture wicking to make them fit better for the athlete.

John Strotbeck

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They just said this is just how it goes, it’s part of climate change to a certain extent, it’s part of just a lot of fuels that are not burnt, the humidity is low, the fuel moisture levels are low, and ... around the state, many parts of it are much like a tinderbox.

Paul Burgess

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Here in Utah, we are seeing weather typical of the 1930s during the Dust Bowl. It is so dry, and you have that aridity in the earth, and you get a fire that is sucking all the moisture out of the air. You're going to have these crazy, catastrophic fires.

State Lands ' Kayli Yardley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What happens to an ice sheet when rainfall increases depends on where the rain falls and whether it is cold enough to fall as snow instead of rain. if the temperatures are warm enough for the moisture to fall as rain over the ice-free area, this could trigger processes that can accelerate ice loss. Conversely, if the temperatures are cold enough for the moisture to fall as snow over the ice sheet, this can cause ice growth.

Catherine Bradshaw

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The lower tornado activity has largely been the result of an unfavorable pattern for tornadoes with occasional strong cold fronts shunting the deep, rich, high-quality moisture from the Gulf of Mexico south of Tornado Alley.

Matt Elliott

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Fuel moisture content is one of the most important factors of fire behavior. It's very critical, so we are constantly monitoring.

Craig Clements

Found on CNN
3 years ago

April 1 is usually the time of year we have the highest fuel moisture content, and this year they are still dormant because lack of rain, they are stressed and there's no new growth. The plants aren't responding because of the lack of moisture.

Craig Clements

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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