Sentences with phrase «by rainfall down»

This makes the final week of February the best time to visit Gran Canaria if you want to keep the chances of your holiday being spoiled by rainfall down to an absolute minimum.

This makes the final week of January the best time to visit Gran Canaria if you want to keep the chances of your holiday being affected by rainfall down to an absolute minimum.

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• One is that the cold air above the Laurentide Ice Sheet created a tremendous high pressure system that shifted the polar jet stream to the south, pushing the track followed by winter storms down into the Southwest, which had the effect of dramatically reducing the amount of rainfall in the Northwest while increasing it in the Southwest.

This summer, rainfall in India was 14 percent below normal and reservoirs were down by 30 percent, according to a United Nations report.

In Canada, an extreme rainfall event, made worse by a stalled weather system likely powered by an unstable Arctic and climate change, has closed down the country's oil trading capital.

The probability of rainfall slowly drops as the month progresses, decreasing from 45 % on July 1st down to 42 % by July 31st.

The probability of rainfall making an appearance begins at 1.2 % on February 1st, rises up to 1.5 % by February 13th and drops back down to 1.2 % by February 28th.

In Tenerife north, the chances of rainfall begin at 34 % on May 1st and drop down to 28 % by May 31st.

As the month goes on, the probably of rainfall decreases from 50 % on February 1st, down to 42 % on February 24th, before rising up to around 45 % by the end of the month.

The sand dunes distinct break is dependent on the silt brought down by rainfall from the Sigatoka river mouth transforming the waves to break on the dunes.

During the last big abrupt cooling, 12,900 years ago, Europe cooled down to Siberian temperatures within a decade (about ten-fold greater than in the Little Ice Age), the rainfall likely dropped by half, and fierce winter storms whipped a lot of dust into the atmosphere.

«Furthermore, recent studies suggest that fragmenting the Amazon forest could disrupt regional rainfall by breaking down a «biotic pump», in which evapotranspiration from forests creates low - pressure zones that draw in moisture - laden air from the Atlantic Ocean,» said William F. Laurance, a researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, who together with Lovejoy, won the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology for their work in the Brazilian Amazon.

The failure to flush the cooled - down water from the ocean surface, induced by global warming's rainfall and meltwater, isn't even the 20 percent possibility at the moment; it's the best - understood candidate for what can trigger global abrupt cooling.

The study, based on a computer model used to simulate rainfall under different land - use conditions, found that cutting down tropical forests in West Africa reduces precipitation over neighboring forest areas by about 50 percent due to increased temperatures over cropland areas.