The beginning of March brought cold, damp, calm weather, with much wet snow and overcast skies.
Then came a spell of calm weather, and during the first week of May the sea-ice formed rapidly.
During April the sea froze in calm weather, but winds took the ice out again.
Also, strange overfalls, the waves of which, even in calm weather, will throw their crests over the bulwarks.
A peculiar effect of refraction sometimes seen in calm weather, showing all objects on the water multiplied or magnified.
We thus very soon formed three small rafts, each capable of supporting thirty or forty people in calm weather--a very small portion of the poor wretches on board.
I might have sailed with Andrew for a long time, in calm weather, without discovering the real heroic qualities which, under his rough exterior, he possessed.
The oar can also turn a boat when she is at rest, and can scull her in calm weather up to a whale without noise.
Nothing is so wonderful as this sudden getting up of the sea after a spell of calm weather.
There is nothing so irksome as calm weather at sea, to those at all events whose duty lies upon the waters and who do not go on shipboard for mere pleasure.
In calm weather, however, the cliff beauty of the islet may be contemplated more perfectly from a boat, surveyed from Fermains Bay to Les Hanois.
The water is twenty and thirty fathoms deep around these white sand rocks, which are about a mile in circuit, and have two landing-places, with steps in the rock, accessible in calm weather.
We could be happy for a time there: we could sail and row about the rocks in calm weather: and in stormy weather we should watch the waves breaking over the headlands, and in the evening I would play "The Chirping of the Lark.
Only in calm weather and in broad daylight can the boatman who knows the place venture in those waters.
This action, it is claimed, serves to steady the main vessel, somewhat in the manner of the tail of a kite, thereby enabling observations to be made as easily and correctly in rough as in calm weather.
A represents the ground station and B the position of the captive balloon when sent aloft in calm weather, 300 feet of cable being paid out.
While this process is satisfactory in calm weather, it is impracticable in heavy winds, which are likely to spring up suddenly.
The flier is sturdily built, while the floats are sufficiently substantial to support the craft upon the water in calm weather.
It is supposed that this swell is caused by distant westerly gales in the Atlantic, which force an undue quantity of water into the North Sea, and thus produce the apparent paradox of great rolling breakers in calm weather.
In calm weather, it creeps up my legs, and the legs o' the forge too, till it gradually puts out the fire, and in rough weather it sends up a wave sometimes that sweeps the whole concern black out at one shot.
Evidently it was fairly old and laid down in calm weather, for excavations showed that it became more compact without any hard wind-swept layers marking successive snowfalls.
Evidence on the great topic accumulated day by day and month by month; yet there was no one without an innate hope that winter would bring calm weather or that spring-time, at least, must be propitious.
In calm weather, camping is a very different thing.
So, in Adelie Land, short spells of calm weather may be expected over a period of barely three months around the summer solstice.
Oddly, the floe temperature seems to agree with that on Wind Vane Hill, whilst the hut temperature is always 4° or 5° colder in calm weather.
Here the sea seems disinclined to freeze even in calm weather.
Supposing only an ordinary refraction, the eye takes in, in calm weather, from the summit of the volcano, a surface of the globe of 5700 square leagues, equal to a fourth of the superficies of Spain.
It was remarkable that a bird, in that season, and in calm weather, should fly so far.
This river is full of crocodiles, which sometimes extend their excursions into the open sea, especially in calm weather.
Often, while a hurricane is tearing and raging through Cook's Strait, calm weather will be found to prevail without disturbance in Blind Bay.
Each hand is on the look-out in calm weather, scouring the horizon for a wandering catspaw, or in bad weather, watching the other craft to see how they take it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calm weather" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
