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One distinctive feature of the Toulon climate is the wind, with 115 days a year of strong winds; usually either the cold and dry Mistral or the Tramontane from the north, the wet Marin; or the Sirocco sometimes bearing reddish sand from Africa; or the wet and stormy Levant from the east. [citation needed] (See Winds of Provence.) The windiest ...
The Ottomans finally departed from their Toulon base after a stay of 8 months, on 23 May 1544, after Francis I had paid 800,000 ecus to Barbarossa. [2] [8] He also refused to leave until all Turkish and Barbary corsairs were freed from the French galleys [2] and pillaged five French ships in the harbour of Toulon in order to provision his fleet ...
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Toulon is a city and the county seat of Stark County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,292 at the 2010 census. [ 2 ] Toulon is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area , and is the northwestern terminus of the Rock Island Trail State Park .
Also actiniform. Describing a collection of low-lying, radially structured clouds with distinct shapes (resembling leaves or wheels in satellite imagery), and typically organized in extensive mesoscale fields over marine environments. They are closely related to and sometimes considered a variant of stratocumulus clouds. actinometer A scientific instrument used to measure the heating power of ...
Meteoblue (stylized as meteoblue) is a meteorological service created at the University of Basel, Switzerland.In 2006, Meteoblue was then founded as a spin-off company in order to serve customers especially in the area of agriculture as well as solar and wind power.
Toulon-sur-Arroux (French pronunciation: [tulɔ̃ syʁ aʁu], literally Toulon on Arroux) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. See also
Cotiella was tasked with sinking Toulon's hulks; one was a disarmed former British frigate captured during the American Revolutionary War, Montréal, and the other was the French frigate Iris. [14] These ships contained the gunpowder stores for the entire fleet and due to the danger of explosion were anchored in the outer roads, some distance ...