Sentences with phrase «big storm»

Rising tides are arriving along with rising risks of big storms.

Every family should have an emergency plan in place before the next big storm hits.

Business owners are at risk of major damage when the next big storm hits the area.

Climate change is causing sea ice to melt and permafrost to thaw, threatening coastal villages with bigger storms and erosion.

Either he'll have a quieter season in comparison this year, or he'll create an even bigger storm.

Also, raw sewage may reach coastal waters when water runoff from big storms causes sewage treatment plants to bypass treatment.

They include working to get a federal study of whether or not to build big storm - surge barriers.

But because one big storm takes much more heat out of the ocean than two smaller storms, the expectation is that numbers may decline.

Big storms assist in crucial heat transport between the equator and poles, and hurricanes provide rainfall vital to human survival, he said.

Hope you had just as much fun with the first big storm of the season.

The result is what looks like the world's biggest storm stretching the length of the northern hemisphere.

Here are 10 smart gadgets that can help protect your home and family when the next big storm rolls through your area.

In coming years there will be plenty of big storms and deep droughts.

You can rely on your home insurance policy to help replace damaged valuables or repair damaged property when the next big storm hits your home.

«It's not cost - effective to just tear down the sea walls and let the houses be washed away by the next big storm that comes along,» he said.

For example do you tend to get big storm surges at the same time as heavy rainfall?

But these really big storms in August seem to transport a huge amount of heat into the melt regions (see stream of cumulus clouds), as well as churn things up and increase heat transfer rates.

The more the seas climb, the more high tides inundate areas that previously flooded only during big storms.

Or is the future shape of the risk still so vague and uncertain that we are stuck having the whole country underwrite it until the effects of climate change on big storms come into clearer focus?

(MCT)-- Recent images of Hurricane Sandy's trek are a reminder that measures taken to prepare for big storms can reduce the damage they cause.

Second, fearful that bad weather might ruin their well laid plans, consumers tend to avoid booking cruises when big storms hit the headlines like Hurricane Matthew did in the US this month.

Did you really think the Hudson River tunnel tubes only became an issue after Big Storm Sandy in 2012, given they were built in 1910?

While scientists have talked for years about an approaching era of «super-hurricanes,» the data do not yet support the conclusion that we'll see more big storms on a regular basis, said Tom Knutson, a NOAA meteorologist at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J.

«We get big storms here, it's not uncommon to see wave heights that are 10 meters,» Hill said.

In May the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US said that this season the Atlantic would probably see more hurricanes than normal, giving a 70 % probability of between three and seven really big storms in 2010.

Within the limits of the sparse data we have, Mars has cooled over the 30 year baseline (but I'd not trust that much) and the main reason is more big storms back when.

«However a weed - dominated reef can be damaged by big storms too.

The last big storm NJ had I was pushing cars and trucks out.

A handful of big storm years, particularly in 2005 and 2012, along with the artificially low rates charged to...

Because of human - caused climate change, the storms, cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons we see today are bringing noticeably heavier rainfall, causing more flooding, blowing with stronger winds and causing bigger storm surges.

If big storms come this winter, the heavy rainfall could be distributed over the land to ease flood risk and slowly refill depleted aquifers.

DAM - BUILDERS: be careful when you create a reservoir because bigger storms and flooding could be on the way.

Ahead of the Nov. 21 vote — where the veteran politician who has weathered big storms before will face Louisiana House Democratic Leader John Bel Edwards — Vitter's goal is clear: Convincing most of the 381,000 voters who supported his Republican opponents that he is a good second choice.

Bigger storms produce faster winds, and consequently more G. bulloides.

They are emboldened because researchers have gotten very good in the past decade at determining what affects the variables that create big storms.

Cuomo touted his experience handling big storms as governor and, prior to that, as HUD secretary during the Clinton administration.

Sea ice has hit record lows for time of year as experts say global warming probably fueled big storms in Europe and north - eastern US

«Easy,» said the man, «the fellow on the corner goes off for a couple of months every year at about this time and he usually takes is umbrella down before leaving; but, this time he left it up, which means big storms are coming and that umbrella will be a goner.»

Major storm periods and climate forcing in the Western Mediterranean during the Late Holocene Big storm events represent a major risk for populations and infrastructures settled on coastal lowlands.

«It's a pretty big storm for them.

«More big storms increase tropical rainfall totals.»

In the meantime, the company has had to spend more than $ 60,000 raising and rebuilding the bulkheads, installing reinforced pilings that can withstand big storm surges, raising electrical sockets up to waist level, and rebuilding its repairs warehouse with waterproof materials, like impermeable sheetrock and rigid foam insulation.