Sentences with phrase «with precipitation records»

With precipitation records dating back to 1947, May 2015 was the driest May on record for the country, with total average rainfall for the month just 25 percent of normal.

Not exact matches

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said, «With increased precipitation and rapid snow melt, record water flows through major tributaries upstream and downstream of the lake, water is high throughout the Great Lakes system.

To calculate the correlation during the Little Ice Age, researchers compared the core data with proxies for precipitation data, such as data from tree rings, cave formations and other natural records.

Boersma and Rebstock looked at the cause of every recorded chick mortality in an Argentinian colony of Magellanic penguins, over a nearly 30 - year period, and compared these with changes in temperature and precipitation over the same time.

In France, even with a drier than average June, total summer (June - August) precipitation was more than 140 percent of average, marking one of the 10 wettest summers since national records began in 1959.

The concentration of these magnetic minerals is enhanced with increasing rainfall and can be used as a record of past precipitation history.

As indicated by the June precipitation percentiles map below, the eastern United States and much of India were much wetter than average, with record rainfall across portions of India.

«Such markers can be seen in remote sensing imagery and tree - ring isotopes, but we're also looking at climate records for precipitation and temperature, along with numerical modeling to determine what type and how much water has been delivered to a basin in the first place.

Looking at historical records of drought in California, he and his colleagues found that a lack of precipitation in itself wasn't sufficient to set up a drought; that dryness had to overlap with unusually warm temperatures.

The end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere was a dry one for Australia, with February receiving just 49 percent of average monthly precipitation, marking the country's 11th driest February on record.

Texas had its wettest spring on record with 223 percent of average precipitation.

December rounded out the year with a precipitation total of 1.65 inches, 1.42 inch below average, the fourth driest such month on record.

By the end of the year, that pattern had flipped, with record and near - record temperatures across most of the East and near - to below - average temperatures for much of the West, associated with much needed above average precipitation across the region.

The wettest year on record for Alaska occurred in 1928 with 43.54 inches of precipitation.

The cooling clouds and precipitation that come with annual return of the North American monsoon promise to break the record heat in the Southwest and temper things a bit (relatively speaking anyways) through the rest summer.

This year, record snowfalls in the East left some areas of the country with too much precipitation, while other areas had too little, due to extreme drought in the West.

Thus, new record - high precipitation amounts are consistent with the climate change scenarios.

Precipitation records from modern rain gauges were used for 1908â $ «96 together with the traditional Korean rain gauge precipitations for 1777â $ «1907.

Colorado Springs had its 4th wettest and 4th snowiest January on record with 13.5 inches (34 cm) of snow and 0.87 inches (22 mm) of liquid equivalent precipitation (period of record 1894 - 2015).

Gauge observations provide relatively accurate and trusted measurements of precipitation with long term records.

Blacksburg, VA (1953 - 2015) observed its sixth driest January on record with only 1.3 inches (33 mm) of precipitation.

Precipitation was near average for much of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, though Aibonito, PR (1906 - 2015) observed its fifth wettest January on record with 6.05 inches (154 mm) of pPrecipitation was near average for much of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, though Aibonito, PR (1906 - 2015) observed its fifth wettest January on record with 6.05 inches (154 mm) of precipitationprecipitation.

Weather records from 11 individual weather station were also correlated with annual balance, but each yielded lower correlation coefficients than the Cascade Mountain Division record, probably due to the significant local changes in precipitation for many storm events.

After six years of «perpetual» drought, California is now deluged with the highest precipitation for January and February on human record (Sacbee2017b).

«Lehmann et al. (2015) also found large — scale increasing patterns in extreme precipitation, with 12 % more record - breaking rainfall events over 1981 — 2010.

With record precipitation, megaflood evidence, and studies warning of higher extreme weather, with likelihood of confluence and climate persistence, should not the Oroville Dam Design Peak Maximum Flood and Spillway Peak Outflow parameters be increased rather than decreaWith record precipitation, megaflood evidence, and studies warning of higher extreme weather, with likelihood of confluence and climate persistence, should not the Oroville Dam Design Peak Maximum Flood and Spillway Peak Outflow parameters be increased rather than decreawith likelihood of confluence and climate persistence, should not the Oroville Dam Design Peak Maximum Flood and Spillway Peak Outflow parameters be increased rather than decreased?

You can have one year with almost no precipitation, then next year have a record year,» said Dan McEvoy, an assistant research professor at the Climate Research Institute.

«However, a number of issues specific to the modeling situation could arise in this context, including: how realistically the AOGCM is able to reproduce the real world patterns of variability and how they respond to various forcings7; the magnitude of forcings and the sensitivity of the model that determine the magnitude of temperature fluctuations; and the extent to which the model was sampled with the same richness of information that is contained in the proxy records (not only temperature records, but series that correlate well with the primary patterns of variability including, for example, precipitation in particular seasons.»

National Weather Service meteorologist Benjamin Bartus credits precipitation that began late yesterday with taking the total just past the previous record.

If NOT — if precipitation, daylight, which side of the mountain it's on, etc. are factors — then chances are it WO N'T correlate with temperature records.

temperature could have exacerbated the 2014 drought by approximately 36 %... These observations from the paleoclimate record suggest that high temperatures have combined with the low but not yet exceptional precipitation deficits to create the worst short - term drought of the last millennium for the state of California... Future severe droughts are expected to be in part driven by anthropogenic influences and temperatures outside the range of the last millennium.

With the help of Dr. Phil Jones of the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, we have extended the Kathmandu Indian Embassy monthly maximum and minimum temperature records back to 1879 and the precipitation data back to 1852.

The DHM data set includes daily flow data for 44 river gauging stations for the period 1964 - 2000, 258 daily precipitation records covering 1956 - 1996, 119 daily and monthly temperature records spanning the period 1934 - 1996, 114 records of average monthly humidity from 1967 - 1997, and 41 records with average monthly values of sunshine hours between 1967 - 1997...

During 2017, the season with the largest negative anomaly was the winter, making it the second driest winter in the ERA - Interim record in terms of precipitation.

Instrumental records have shown that hydroclimatic variability across the American Southwest is mostly structured around cool - season precipitation regimes, with a few winter storms typically contributing a disproportionately large amount of the annual precipitation across this region [15].

Abrupt changes in precipitation and temperature resolved in a record spanning the past 60,000 years from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, are coeval with Northern Hemisphere climate events.

Before instrumental records, we can be pretty sure there have been storms lasting longer, with more precipitation, likely even to have been in the same size range and maybe even more.

I do know that the winters in my neck of the woods have been colder, not warmer; longer, not shorter; with more precipitation than that recorded in decades.

While derived from sea surface temperature data, the PDO index is well correlated with many records of North Pacific and Pacific Northwest climate and ecology, including sea level pressure, winter land — surface temperature and precipitation, and stream flow.

In 1965 British climatologist Hubert Horace Lamb examined historical records of harvests and precipitation, along with early ice - core and tree - ring data, and concluded that the MWP was probably 1 — 2 °C (1.8 — 3.6 °F) warmer than early 20th - century conditions in Europe.

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

The periods where GISS surges ahead of the satellite record appear to be associated with times of El Ninos, perhaps involving changes in precipitation.

Given the known influence of temperature on drought, the fact that the 2012 — 2014 record drought severity has co-occurred with record statewide warmth (7) raises the question of whether long - term warming has altered the probability that precipitation deficits yield extreme drought in California.

The correlation of summer precipitation in the Southwestern U.S.A. with isotopic records of solar activity during the medieval warm period.

Taken together, the observed record from California suggests that (i) precipitation deficits are more likely to yield 1 - SD PMDI droughts if they occur when conditions are warm and (ii) the occurrence of 1 - SD PMDI droughts, the probability of precipitation deficits producing 1 - SD PMDI droughts, and the probability of precipitation deficits co-occurring with warm conditions have all been greater in the past two decades than in the preceding century.

2012 was also the 15th driest year on record, with an average of 26.57 inches of precipitation across the country.

Those who like to check under the hood and kick the tires will find a tiny increase in precipitation over the 240 - year record, with an interesting smoothing of precipitation through the year - that is, there's been a little more rain in the drier December through May half and a little less in the soggier June through November half of the year.

World Resources Institute explains that recent record warm temperatures, combined with low precipitation have combined to make the situation even worse than either factor alone:

Here is an excerpt of the research paper, «When It Rains It Pours», from Environment America, showing a statistically significant spike in flash flooding and other extreme precipitation events since 1948: «Weather records show that storms with extreme precipitation have become more frequent over the last 60 years.

Probably not so much with temperatures (except for coverage issues see Cowtran and Way), but as a recent note by Trenberth et al pointed out precipitation records are in need of a major combing out and reconciliation.