Sentences with phrase «broke precipitation records»

When it stalled near the Houston area, the resulting rains broke precipitation records and caused devastating flooding.

Not exact matches

The researchers reviewed precipitation data and found that the Oso area experienced record - breaking rainfall in the weeks leading up to the slide.

Many locations broke their precipitation total records for the month.

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.

Climate scientists don't know where and when temperature and precipitation records will be broken, but they are confident that the next decade and especially century will have more records of all kinds broken than the last decade and century.

«Increased Record - Breaking Precipitation Events under Global Warming.»

Then, in late 2010, a strong La Niña brought relief from the drought and record - breaking precipitation.

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

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.

This year California broke records, as it saw incredible rates of precipitation — so far in 2017, the state has gotten an average 22.45 inches of precipitation, 9.5 inches above the 20th century average.

«Even though California historically has periods of dry and wet years, there isn't an analog for climate extremes like the ones we've observed in recent years, such as those record - breaking prolonged periods of drought following by periods of intense precipitation pulses that cause flooding,» Woodburn said.

Precipitation and streamflow measurements indicate that the event was a 1 in 50 year to 1 in 100 year event in many locations in south - east British Columbia, and numerous streamflow records were broken.

In that case, a similar slow - moving low pressure system brought moisture from the Gulf of Mexico against the front ranges of the northern Rocky Mountains leading to record breaking precipitation totals and flooding.

«The current record - breaking drought has arisen from both extremely low precipitation and extremely warm temperature,» Professor Diffenbaugh says.

We are beginning to sound like a broken record here, but again, it is impossible to present reliable future projections for precipitations changes across the U.S. (seasonal or annual) from a collection of climate models which largely can not even get the sign (much less the magnitude) of the observed changes correct.

Regardless of whether the record - breaking warmth in the North Pacific was the primary cause of the Triple R or merely a secondary one, it's pretty clear that Pacific SST anomalies contributed to the persistent northeastern Pacific ridging and extremely low California precipitation observed in 2013 - 2014.

Anna Michalak's team combined sampling and satellite - based observations of Lake Erie with computer simulations and determined that the 2011 record - breaking algal bloom in the lake was triggered by long - term agricultural practices coupled with extreme precipitation, followed by weak lake circulation and warm temperatures.

Because of the milder winter «weather», records are being broken all the time with precipitation, most likely the record of over 5000 mm is in danger.