How to Use mid-Atlantic in a Sentence
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The ranges are the high pressure ridge in the mid-Atlantic and the trough of low pressure pushed by the jet stream.
— Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023 -
At the same time, cold rain will move up through the mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast by the evening.
— Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024 -
By Tuesday evening, the storm will move up the coast, bringing heavy rain to the mid-Atlantic.
— Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 25 Dec. 2023 -
The smoke is expected to spread through the mid-Atlantic in the coming days, as well.
— Devika Rao, The Week, 9 June 2023 -
Over the weekend, the heat wave is expected to shift east to the mid-Atlantic and the Southeast.
— Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 5 July 2024 -
There is the potential risk for hail, strong winds, heavy rain and isolated twisters for the mid-Atlantic.
— Janice Dean, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2023 -
The wind, pouring off a low-pressure zone in the mid-Atlantic, was slicing through the drizzle in the village of Blacksod.
— Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023 -
As much of the U.S. contends with snow and cold weather, record warmth is expected to hit the mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
— Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2023 -
Those in mid-Atlantic states will be striking for one day while those in western states will be striking for three days.
— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023 -
This invasive import from Europe has been found in the mid-Atlantic and will skeletonize and strip leaves.
— Rebecca Bull Reed, Southern Living, 10 June 2024 -
But it's caught the attention of a larger audience throughout the South and mid-Atlantic.
— Heather Bien, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024 -
Showers will linger for parts of the mid-Atlantic on Saturday, but the region will slowly begin to dry out.
— Mary Gilbert, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023 -
The rain was much needed as parts of the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast are under moderate drought conditions.
— Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 1 May 2023 -
Millions of shorebirds migrate along the Atlantic coast, and many stop in spring, when horseshoe crabs spawn on mid-Atlantic beaches, to feed on the crabs’ eggs.
— Kristoffer Whitney, Fortune Well, 13 Oct. 2023 -
But, if that isn't enough to sway you to make the trek to St. Michaels, consider that this town of 1,020 residents is essentially the Hamptons of the mid-Atlantic.
— Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Air circulating around and between those two systems is pulling the smoke southward over the Great Lakes, the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic region.
— Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 June 2023 -
Light to moderate rain will also move into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
— Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024 -
The mountain formed from the sedate shifts of the nearby mid-Atlantic ridge, where the North American and African tectonic plates slowly pull apart.
— Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024 -
By Saturday, all areas from the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast should finally see a reprieve as a wind shift pushes the smoke away.
— NBC News, 8 June 2023 -
By Tuesday, the system will set up with the potential for an active day of severe weather from the Appalachians to the mid-Atlantic.
— Jj Hensley, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023 -
On celluloid, it had been masked by the traditional mid-Atlantic twang.
— K.j. Yossman, Variety, 23 Nov. 2023 -
By Tuesday, the cold snap will bring chillier weather to much of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, where temperatures soared into the 70s and 80s over the weekend.
— Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2023 -
Record highs were forecast from the mid-Atlantic states down through Florida, with some places expected to reach up to 40 degrees above normal.
— Amancai Biraben and Jim Salter, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Feb. 2023 -
Seasonal speed zones to protect the whales are in effect off major ports in the mid-Atlantic, including Chesapeake Bay through April 30.
— Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2023 -
Twenty-five million people are in the severe risk zone across the Plains and the mid-Atlantic for storms producing baseball-size hail and a few tornadoes in the evening and lasting overnight.
— Erin McGarry, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2024 -
Wind chill advisories remain in effect throughout the Northeast and into the mid-Atlantic coast.
— Justin Klawans, The Week, 4 Feb. 2023 -
But there will be no such luck again this weekend, as two systems work together to bring soggy and dreary conditions to the Northeast and parts of the mid-Atlantic.
— Mary Gilbert, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023 -
The lone star tick currently resides in the southern, midwestern, and mid-Atlantic United States.
— Julia Ries, Health, 9 Aug. 2023 -
Few places were untouched by the wild weather, some at the opposite extreme: long-standing record highs were broken in cities in the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
— Trisha Ahmed and Jim Salter, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023 -
Rain will continue over parts of the Carolinas and reach more of the mid-Atlantic Tuesday, but the system is expected to dissipate by midweek.
— Mary Gilbert, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
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