Well, this year Azores High doesn't seem to be extending as far up north as is needed to give us better weather. |
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A stronger Azores High will cause stronger trade wind flow and more upwelling off of the Northwest African coast. |
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Around mid-May the Azores High gradually becomes more dominant and the Euro-Asian High loses its influence, resulting in very stable weather. |
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The whalers also thought they had much knowledge to share about whale watching in the Azores. |
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This weekend's long run has gone for a burton courtesy of a trip to the Azores tomorrow. |
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The Hawaiian and Azores High intensify and expand northward into their relative ocean basins. |
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The last part of the show dealt with other potential locations for Atlantis, such as the Azores, the mid-Atlantic Ocean, and the island of Theta. |
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To the tars of Victoria's navy, especially those returning from the farthest flung corners of the empire, the Azores were the gateway to home. |
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They had stop-overs in the Azores, Gander, Newfoundland and Boston, before they arrived in New York. |
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A thousand miles from anywhere, the Azores are a natural layover for voyaging sailors and adventurous pilgrims. |
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Between 16 June and 24 July, the Azores High extended 5 times into the Gulf of Biscay and over France. |
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Even after October 1943, when allowing Allied air bases in the Azores made it a co-belligerent, Portugal maintained an outward veneer of neutrality. |
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If, for instance, the pressure is low towards Iceland and Greenland and high down by the Azores and Portugal, then most of northern Europe can expect strong westerly winds. |
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An obvious example is the almost semicircular boundary between North America and West Africa along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between the Azores and the Equator. |
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Portugal's highest peak is the similarly named Mount Pico on the island of Pico in the Azores. |
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The United States maintains a military presence with 770 troops in the Lajes Air Base at Terceira Island, in the Azores. |
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One other important airport is the Aeroporto Internacional das Lajes on the island of Terceira in the Azores. |
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It has been recorded from the Atlantic shores of Europe, Northern Russia, the Baltic Sea, Greenland, Azores, Canary Islands, Morocco and Madeira. |
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This hull armor had been installed in just three days, more than a year before, while Kearsarge was in port at the Azores. |
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Agent Bulloch arranged for a civilian crew and captain to sail Enrica to Terceira Island in the Azores. |
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Kearsarge's hull armor had been installed in just three days, more than a year before, while she was in port at the Azores. |
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During the Spanish armada of 1597, Essex was sent home in disgrace after the failed Azores Voyage having left the English coast unguarded. |
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The transitional range of spreading rates instead indicates the presence of a microplate, commonly referred to as the Azores microplate. |
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Preliminary data from the northern Atlantic coast seem to support the Azores High hypothesis. |
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More local particular weather examples could be found in examples such as the Azores High, Benguela Current, and Nor'easter. |
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In 1936 Luft Hansa began to experiment with seaplane flights from Berlin via the Azores with continuation to New York City. |
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The islands form the Macaronesia ecoregion with the Azores, Cape Verde, Madeira, and the Savage Isles. |
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In 1869, the author Mark Twain published The Innocents Abroad, a travel book, where he described his time in the Azores. |
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Because there was such a large Flemish settlement, the Azores became known as the Flemish Islands or the Isles of Flanders. |
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Isabel appealed to Henry to allow some of the unruly Flemings to settle in the Azores. |
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Even though the Azores look very green and sometimes wild, the vegetation has been extremely altered. |
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Reforestation efforts with native laurissilva vegetation have been done successfully in many parts of the Azores. |
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The Azores also has an endemic bat, the Azores noctule, which is unusual in regularly feeding during the day. |
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The Azores High, an area of high atmospheric pressure, is named after the islands. |
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The nature of the economy dictated that African slavery never became common in the Azores because they were sent to Brazil and the Caribbean. |
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As late as 1960 mass immigration currents were registered to Brazil, and many were from the Azores. |
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Since 1976, the Azores is an autonomous region integrated within the framework of the Portuguese Republic. |
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The republic also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments. |
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Willem van der Haegen was the original sea captain who brought settlers from Flanders to the Azores. |
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Various Atlantic islands including the Azores and Canary Islands are depicted, as is the mythical island of Antillia. |
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A particular concern was the defense of the strategic Atlantic islands of the Azores against a possible invasion. |
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The Portuguese Navy focused in the defense of the waters and ports of the Azores with patrol boats and destroyers deployed on rotation. |
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The Navy also had to plan a possible strategic evacuation of the Portuguese Government to the Azores. |
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The facilities in the Azores would be crucial for the Allied victory in the Battle of the Atlantic and its global Victory in Europe. |
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Gomes also gives the first detailed account of the rediscovery of the Azores by the Portuguese in Prince Henry's service. |
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According to the journal of his voyage, on February 14, Columbus was caught in a storm off the Azores islands. |
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On these maps, Antillia was typically depicted on a similar scale to that of Portugal, lying around 200 miles west of the Azores. |
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The Portuguese started arriving in the 1750s, mainly from the Azores islands, and colonized the coast. |
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Currently, the Azores, Madeira, and Savage Islands are the only overseas territories that remain politically linked to Portugal. |
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They could then turn northeast, to the area around the Azores islands, and finally east to mainland Europe. |
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Victory in Azores completed the incorporation of Portugal into the Spanish Empire. |
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From Argentia, the blimps flew approximately 22 hours to Lagens Field on Terceira Island in the Azores. |
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The fleet split at the Azores with Harmensz going to Mauritius and Van Heemskerck heading straight for the Moluccas. |
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In 1592 the Madre de Deus, a Portuguese treasure ship captured by the English in the Azores, docked at Dartmouth Harbour. |
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Sunshine totals reflect the hours of daylight and the fluctuations of the Azores high, which is most powerful in summer. |
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The Karob was in the Azores, off the coast of Portugal and expected to meet our fleet a few days after Christmas near Mull. |
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The shallow-water Polyplacophora of the Azores and some comments on the biogeographical relationships of the Azorean malacofauna. |
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Starting March 29, the airline will also launch a service connecting the capital with Ponta Delgada in Azores. |
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In addition, the government of the Azores employs a large percentage of the population directly or indirectly in the service and tertiary sectors. |
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Dubbed The Valentine's Day Storm, the deluge is expected to develop near the Azores, running northeastwards across Wales and England during today and tomorrow. |
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The ship will make its first visit to Ponta Delgada in the Azores in January during an adventurous cruise that takes in Peru and the South Pacific. |
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During the hyperactive period, more hurricanes were steered towards the Gulf coast as the Azores High was shifted to a more southwesterly position near the Caribbean. |
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During the quiescent periods, a more northeasterly position of the Azores High would result in more hurricanes being steered towards the Atlantic coast. |
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Leaving the island of Santa Maria in the Azores on 23 February, Columbus headed for Castilian Spain, but another storm forced him into Portugal's Lisbon. |
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After the Hundred Years War many Flemings migrated to the Azores. |
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His later maps used the Azores, following the magnetic hypothesis. |
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Spain and Portugal had brought African slaves to work at African colonies such as Cape Verde and the Azores, and then Latin America, by the 16th century. |
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In the Azores, the Islands Armada protected the ships en route to Lisbon. |
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Vines planted on basaltic ground near Madalena, Pico Island, Azores. |
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The ship's first call will be Ponta Delgada in the Azores on 23 January before she sails to the Caribbean, transits the Panama Canal and heads for Hawaii and Australia. |
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All of these are divergent or spreading boundaries with the exception of the northern boundary and a short segment near the Azores known as the Terceira Rift. |
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The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America, Greenland, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores. |
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Calluna is native to Europe, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the Azores. |
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Almost all of the ports in the Azores archipelago suffered most of their destruction from the tsunami, with the sea penetrating about 150 m inland. |
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It is the headquarters and hub for TAP Portugal as well as a hub for Easyjet, Azores Airlines, Ryanair, EuroAtlantic Airways, White Airways, and Hi Fly. |
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Only a few remained in the Azores to help with domestic chores, although the islands sometimes served as a waypoint for ships carrying African slaves. |
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Most of them were either extratropical or tropical storms when they impacted the region, although several Category 1 hurricanes have reached the Azores. |
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The Portuguese took control in 1675 and established the captaincy of Santa Catarina in 1738, bringing families from the Azores to populate the shore. |
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The airfield also has a small commercial terminal handling scheduled and chartered passenger flights from the other islands in the Azores, Europe, Africa, and North America. |
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However, these kinds of structures have been used in the Azores to store cereals, and suggestions by Ribeiro that they might be burial sites are unconfirmed. |
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The call, which replaced CQD code in 1906, was recognised by two steamers which went to the aid of the Cunard liner SS Slavonia, wrecked off the Azores. |
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The call, which replaced CQD code in 1906, was recognised by two steamers who went to the aid of the Cunard liner SS Slavonia, wrecked off the Azores. |
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The climate of the Azores is very mild for such a northerly location, being influenced by its distance from the continents and by the passing Gulf Stream. |
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