Sentences with phrase «when rainfall»

Both residents and corporates are quickly adapting to a new way of life by accessing alternative water sources and installing water saving features and, with Day Zero already pushed back to the July when rainfall is expected, investor interest will resume and life will go on.

When rainfall pours out of the sky, even tiny creeks can pose a threat to your home, and without Kentucky flood insurance, you could suffer devastating water damage.

WHen rainfall rate is less than this rate it infiltrates (until the soil is saturated), when railfall rate is higher then some runs off, or all of it runs off if the soil is saturated.

This sub-thread (17) is in general about water supply and under on evidently reduced catchment efficiency that is misrepresented as being the resulkt of reduced rainfall... when the rainfall has been fairly consistent over the past century except for a very wet decade or do.

Because some species respond predictably by producing narrower annual rings when rainfall declines, the researchers were able to plot precipitation year by year from the 1500s on.

For example, the US Great Plains recovered from the severe drought in the 1930s when rainfall returned to normal and land management practices were improved and maintained.

In their Fig. 8 surface pressure when rainfall is present after an initial ~ 1sec jerky behaviour, is reduced to a value approximately equal to that of the final state (when droplets have fallen down).

Switching to terrestrial protein when rainfall becomes more episodic and groundwater depletion increases poses a daunting challenge.

The steady increase in global temperatures, including average temperatures in Australia, means that even when rainfall is at or near the historical average, conditions are drier than before because evaporation rates are higher.

1.3 This practice also addresses the weight of the vegetative (green) roof system under two conditions: (1) weight under drained conditions after new water additions by rainfall or irrigation have ceased (this includes the weight of retained water and captured water), and (2) weight when rainfall or irrigation is actively occurring and the drain layer is completely filled with water.

Not because they've been duped by loopy left wing scientists, but because, well, when rainfall decreases year after year and it keeps getting hotter and hotter, sooner or later you start to get a little suspicious about all the assertions by the politicians and high emission industry spokes - people that everything is peaches and cream and we should just go shopping and not think about it.

In 2013, August was the driest month of the year when rainfall was only reported on 23 % of days.

The best time to visit Ooty is during the monsoon, around August, when the rainfall is heavy.

On average 50 - 80 inches of ram a year fall on the Crooked Tree area, mainly outside the January to April or May dry season, when the rainfall is approximately 4 inches a month.

The climate is said to be one of the best in South Africa, neither excessively hot in summer when rainfall is at its highest, nor overly cold during the sunny winters.

Rain - Sensing Windshield Wipers: When rainfall starts, so do the wipers thanks to these smart sensors, which also adjust speed to the appropriate setting according to the rain amount.

Analyzing the distribution of trees across the basin, they found that fire - related savannas can dominate the flooded parts already when rainfall drops below 1500 mm / year, whereas in other parts rainfall as low as 1000 mm / year can be tolerated.

When rainfall increased from the changing climate, flooding provided a thin layer of fresh water for Azolla to creep outward, over parts of the surrounding continents.

But that pushes you against the time when rainfall increases the most,» said DeGaetano.

However, it is expected to be more muted than that following the breaking of the 1982/83 drought, when rainfall was more favourably timed and placed.

Humidity and rainfalls are low, except during the monsoon period from October to April, when rainfalls can be heavy, especially from January to March.

Not exact matches

In warmer lands, such as tropical, subtropical and arid lands, deciduous plants may lose their leaves during dry seasons or during times when there are changes in rainfall.

During a 5 - year period between 1988 and 1998 when total rainfall from April to August was less than 14 inches (compared to 20 inches in normal years), average organic corn yields were 31 % greater than conventional system.

What triggers a translucent flow is specific to rules that apply to individual storages, but what they have in common is, when a storage has reached a certain capacity, a small amount of water is allowed to flow through river systems to replicate a natural response to rainfall.

The pitch was that when high - rainfall areas were flooded, consumers could pump up the device, allowing a sofa to float and remain dry.

Swim bans still will be issued when there is sewage overflow into the lake, as sometimes happens after particularly heavy rainfalls.

Our cabbage did a funny thing a week or so ago, which is that just about when they were ready to harvest, the roots filled up with a quick and heavy rainfall, thereby pushing pressure into the heads of the cabbages and causing them to burst (at least, that's what I have sussed out happened based on some reading I did about it).

This Musical Owl has the cutest little wobble that the owl does when it's pushed and you'll be so grateful that the rainfall sound is much quieter than the traditional push popper.

«We have been suffering as a nation for a long time when it comes to rainfall disasters.

This advice comes at a time when farmers across the country are complaining of huge yield losses as a result of poor rainfall patterns this year.

Mr Benn, when quizzed on why in certain areas flood defences were deployed late or not at all, said: «Even if those defences had been put in place, they would have been overtopped because of the intensity of the rainfall.

«This was very, very intense rainfall, when you've got 5in in 24 hours, even some of the best defences are going to be overwhelmed,» Mr Benn told BBC News 24.

When disaster strikes, like the heavy rainfall and floods in upstate New York in late June and early July, many people want to help their neighbors in need but don't know where to direct their volunteer efforts.

The unpredictability of rainfall — when, how often and how much — makes subsistence agriculture a crapshoot for rural farmers in the Bolivian Amazon, and the randomness is expected to get only worse.

According to the authors, since the 1970s, when studies conducted by Professor Eneas Salati demonstrated that the Amazon generates approximately half of its own rainfall, the question has been raised of how much deforestation would be required to degrade the region's hydrological cycle to the point at which it would be unable to support rainforest ecosystems.

Before fertilizers, nitrogen was introduced into the soil through rainfall or native pulse crops, so when fertilizer was developed, it revolutionized farming.»

«When you measure the two of them together, you can use the strontium - calcium ratio to take away the temperature and that gives you a clear rainfall signal,» explains paleoclimatologist Nerilie Abrams of the British Antarctic Survey.

But in the past, such drought - spawning events actually occurred during the monsoon season; «the drought peaks at the time when normally this area is receiving its maximum month of rainfall,» Abrams says.

When researchers ran the numbers for the Corn Belt, the global models fell short of reality: They predicted both temperature and humidity to increase slightly, and rainfall to increase by up to 4 % — none of which matches the observed changes.

Kohyama and Wallace used 15 years of data collected by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite from 1998 to 2012 to show that the rain is indeed slightly lighter when the moon is high.

In the Southeast air pollution that begins accumulating on Monday causes rainfall to, more or less, occur during the week, when there are the most particles in the air.

Jon: That was then followed by nine days of really torrential rainfall which again is not what you think about when you think of Antarctica.

When in January rainfall was double the expected average over wide areas, many people made cautious links between such extreme weather and global climate change.

Even a dip in revenue caused by spider mite infestations is nothing when considering the damage wrought by this year's abnormally low rainfall.

Studies of historical records in India suggest that reduced monsoon rainfall in central India has occurred when the sea surface temperatures in specific regions of the Pacific Ocean were warmer than normal.

Another model suggests that dispersal into the Arabian interior began much earlier (approx. 75,000 to 130,000 years ago) during multiple phases, when increased rainfall provided sufficient freshwater to support expanding populations.

By examining daily rainfall and weekly vegetation data from satellite images and entering the data into migration models, the researchers were amazed at how well they could predict when zebras started migrating and how fast they migrated.

These images showed where rain was falling, when it was falling, and the rainfall intensity.

When they measured the size distribution of the droplets resulting from the explosion, they found it matched the results expected from rainfall.

The opposite occurred in 1997 and 1998, when warm surface waters in the Pacific Ocean brought about by El Niño pushed rainfall systems north, leaving parts of the southern and eastern Amazon forest dry and prone to fires.