thermals

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In the first, a quadrotor drone was able to observe four hovering white balls while avoiding four orange balls, all while navigating an airfield rife with randomly occurring, dangerous air currents, or thermals.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

"And at six o'clock on a January morning it was unbelievably cold - even the thermals we had on underneath our tracksuits weren't much help."

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2023

As spectators chant and funnel into the tree-lined stadium, the day starts to warm, which is when spotted lanternflies can be found rising into the air on thermals.

From National Geographic • Aug. 31, 2023

Vultures, another raptor, are easy to spot in the early afternoon because they “get up on the thermals and fly miles and miles and miles” looking for food, he said.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Twenty more seconds before she rode out the flare and was running on thermals.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer