Sentences with phrase «big rain events»

Consider to also handle more big rain events & the methods provide higher yields, taking a view from Andean hydraulic engineering lasting centuries consider terracing everything in sight to delay flow, introducing as much into groundwater recharge as possible, these contours can be sited & sized to handle farm machinery, the walls porous.

Kevin Trenberth, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, gets asked the question so often about the connection between big rain events and climate change that he had this response via email: «Here we go again.»

Catastrophic flooding, often driven by unexpectedly heavy rain events, has swept through many states, and many of those big rain events caught people by surprise in places like Houston and Baton Rouge, La..

Not exact matches

But this year's intense Atlantic storm season had another element tying its biggest events together: a monstrous, and sometimes deadly, amount of rain.

Yes — I don't really understand AFCON — not only is it held at least twice as often as other big international sporting events, and sometimes more, if they decide they want to change the schedule, to not interfere with something else (not the players club obligations, who pay their wages, perish the thought), but it is always held at the peak of the league season, as they say it maybe raining in summer, which I also don't get, as it rains here all the time — I'm sure there are parts of Africa which have reasonable weather during the summer — it's a big continent — South Africa must be fairly clement at that time.

«When you take a very, very rare, extreme rainfall event like Hurricane Harvey, and you shift the distribution of rain toward heavier amounts because of climate change, you get really big changes in the probability of those rare events,» Emanuel says.

The question of global warming stopping is often raised in the light of a recent weather event - a big snowfall or drought breaking rain.

ICYMI, Sunday it rained all day... naturally the day one of my client's has a big event that is outdoors it rains in LA (ain't that always how life works haha:p) But... even a little rain didn't stop the city of Beverly Hills from coming together for the «Holiday Lighting Celebration «(more about that here).

Event planners, those with public relations skills and creative types could really play a big part in helping create successful fundraisers for RAIN.

Consistent with earlier research, six of the top 10 states with the biggest increases in number of days with heavy downpours are in the Northeast, including Rhode Island, Maine, and New Hampshire, which have seen the number of heavy rain events in the last decade increase by at least 50 percent compared to the 1950s.

Then there's just this record - breaking precipitation that we're seeing, which is also linked to warmer baseline temperatures, because when you have warmer temperatures, you have drought, but you also have these freak precipitation events, these big dumps, whether of storm when you think about Boston and those images of cars fully submerged in snow, or what's happening right now in Texas, where you're getting 10 months worth of rain in a period of days.

The tree rings showed that huge swaths of southern China, Mongolia and surrounding areas consistently dried up in the year or two following big events, while mainland southeast Asia got increased rain.

But this year's intense Atlantic storm season had another element tying its biggest events together: a monstrous, and sometimes deadly, amount of rain.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

The question of global warming stopping is often raised in the light of a recent weather event - a big snowfall or drought breaking rain.

If your big event has the chance of getting rained out this summer, or if you invited Kevin Federline as your guest of honour how will you recover losses when he doesn't show?

Samsung's had its chance (s) to bring out the big guns for the upcoming holiday season, largely spoiled by a series of unfortunate exploding events, companies like Sony, Acer, Asus and Lenovo shared the IFA 2016 spotlight, LG did everything in its power yesterday to rain on iPhone 7's parade, and now, it's finally time for Apple's big day.