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  • Tomorrow Thursday: Low-pressure centers to the southeast and to the northwest should stay far enough away to keep us out of any snow or rain, but not out of the clouds.

    Forecast: Cold to gradually tighten grip Dan Stillman 2011

  • Low-pressure systems are more favorable to develop along the coastline in the winter months due to the relative temperature differences between the Northeast and the Atlantic Ocean.

    Mount Washington 2009

  • Low-pressure systems wreak havoc with my head, triggering migraines that send me into a dark closet with an ice pack and an inability to handle anything.

    Headache e 2009

  • Low-pressure systems wreak havoc with my head, triggering migraines that send me into a dark closet with an ice pack and an inability to handle anything.

    Archive 2009-08-01 e 2009

  • Low-pressure liquid coolants allow all their heat to be delivered at high temperatures, since the temperature drop in heat exchangers is less than with gas coolants.

    Nuclear power reactor 2009

  • Low-pressure buried-pipe distribution to outlets supplying hand-held or roll-out plastic hose serving individual orchard trees, quick-coupled portable pipe systems operating in the same manner, and portable gated pipe are in similar category.

    Chapter 20 1995

  • Low-pressure (suction) develops on the concave side of the impeller blades, and high-pressure conditions prevail on the convex side.

    19.1 Bicycle drive pedal drive 1993

  • Low-pressure sodium vapour lamps are used in special fields of outdoor lighting such as: express motor roads, trunkroads, crossings, tunnels, waterways, docks and wharves, protection of buildings and/or sites.

    5. Light Sources for Illuminating Purposes Frank Ponemunski 1991

  • Low-pressure sodium vapour lamps, at the time being, have the greatest light efficiency: 183 lm/W.

    5. Light Sources for Illuminating Purposes Frank Ponemunski 1991

  • "Low-pressure ridge making down from the arctic, crowded isobars so the winds are likely to be gale-force."

    The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

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