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