<em>The Grand Canyon came into view as I was hiking along the trail.</em>
<em>Walking toward the car, I could see that I had a flat tire.</em>
A misplaced modifier is a word, phrase or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies or describes. In the two sentences provided, the modifiers are correctly put next to the words they are modifying, making the sentences to have sense and not to sound confusing.
The speaker uses “past and present wilt.” He also says, “Before I am gone,” “too late,” and “I stay only a minute longer.” Saying that time is fading away.
Weather forecasts are made by collecting as much data as possible about the current state of the atmosphere (particularly the temperature, humidity and wind) and using understanding of atmospheric processes (through meteorology) to determine how the atmosphere evolves in the future.
