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

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

Another contestant quoted by the Sun said that each player was given two thermals, two socks, a shirt, shoes and a green tracksuit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2023

Ahead of them, high in the sky, circling on the hot air currents, were the night-gaunts, dozens of them, riding the thermals.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman