Twenty-four hours ahead of the storm, under a perfectly clear sky, my airline canceled my flight from DC to NYC.
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"Fearful of the outcome, King Angus led prayers for deliverance and was rewarded by seeing a cloud formation of a white Saltire - the diagonal cross against which Saint Andrew had been martyred - against a clear blue sky, " writes Mr Reid.
As he says this, the camera pans upwards to show an aircraft carving a line across the clear blue sky, a reference to both the double standards of Larson's patriotism and the secret that drives him on.
The city looks splendid: bright and sharp against a clear autumn night sky.
The rocket lit up a clear equatorial night sky and was visible from the ground for over six minutes.
Here, the deep burnt sienna red of the soil - rust-coloured because of its richness in iron - mingles with thickets of foliage and a sweep of clear sky.
The lodge creates a peaceful and fantasy-like atmosphere and the empty desert makes for an unusually clear sky and a quiet, dreamy experience.
Eight hours later, as the aircraft's undercarriage was lowered over Mortlake, in south-west London on its approach to Heathrow Airport, the man plummeted to earth through a clear blue Sunday morning sky.
The sub-millimeter radiation that the telescope will collect is usually absorbed by water, but the lack of moisture in the atmosphere will enable scientists to enjoy a clear view of the sky.
From the banks, our boat must have looked a bit like some floating cubist sculpture, its white angular structure scored by floor-to-ceiling windows striped with balcony railings, its monochromatic figure floating in a backdrop of clear blue sky.
"The idea is that the same thing is true for colors, that there are certain kinds of colors that are characteristic of stuff that's good for us as a species -- clear sky, clear water -- and stuff that's bad for us, like rotting foods, biological waste products, " he said.
At the Suncor Family Day breakfast, under what locals called a clear "Alberta Blue" sky, thousands of hungry Stampeders were already in line by 6:30 a.m.
But a clear, cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more easily than they do red light.
The sky was a crystal-clear blue.
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" Jesse Nichols, a librarian on the Senate Finance Committee and the first black appointed to a clerical position in the Senate, recalled that "Senator Gore used to come in and out of the clear blue sky he would say, 'Jesse, bring me a Coca-Cola.
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It was a little lake, still and dazzling under the clear sky.
Beneath the surface of the water they are a creamy turquoise, and when the sky is clear, as it is now, the cerulean reflection on the sea is otherworldly.
The sky was clear and the sun shone brightly on a heavy snow pack, but it was cold and the wind was blowing.
But cycling is a damaged sport still rich in etiquette, and it was clear that Sky expected the 27-year-old Froome to wait his turn.
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It happened outside a casino, right near the front doors, with a clear view to six or seven different buildings, and miles of open desert sky.
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