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about U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx Announces $ 750,000 in «Quick Release» Emergency Relief Funds for Roads Damaged by Rainfall in Detroit

WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $ 750,000 in emergency relief funds from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help the Michigan Department of Transportation cover the costs of repairing roads and bridges damaged by rainfall in the Detroit metro area.

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It wasn't enough to compensate for all the excess water brought in by storms, however, and heavy rainfall on Saturday caused the dam to overflow for the first time in its 49 - year history.

Armed with information about rainfall, temperature and soil conditions, the startup created comprehensive maps of conditions in the fields — the type of intel farmers once had to gather by traversing every acre under production, manually noting any changes they observed.

In June 2013 Germany was among a number of European countries affected by sever flooding, after several days of extreme rainfall in MaIn June 2013 Germany was among a number of European countries affected by sever flooding, after several days of extreme rainfall in Main May.

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«Human - induced climate change likely increased Harvey's total rainfall around Houston by at least 19 percent, with a best estimate of 37 percent,» Michael Wehner, a co-author on an attribution study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in December.

Record rainfall last year in Saskatchewan, which produces almost all of the country's lentils, reduced quality supplies by more than 15 per cent, Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada said.

An article about the bountiful rainfall in The Temecula Valley News Friday, by Kathy Zelasko, mentioned data from several WeatherCurrents stations, including Temecula, Murrieta, Lake Elsinore, Pe...

Yearly average rainfall in Temecula is approximately 14 inches, as compiled by the Rancho California Water District.

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With heavy rainfall and hot temperatures, the 2015 harvest was the lowest ever recorded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (starting in 2000).

Many courses, particularly those in areas of heavy rainfall, would be seriously scarred by a fleet of carts scampering along their fairways every day.

There have been complaints the government failed to take advantage of heavy rainfall in the north - west and Scotland by adding a pipeline to the south - east, but Ms Spelman insisted water was costly to transport.

According to him, the rainfall which was accompanied by windstorm blew off the roofs of many houses in the affected villages.

Two weeks ago, some homes in Springfield Gardens were flooded by torrential rainfall.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Mr Trump lauded the efforts by Texans to extract storm victims from flooded areas of Houston and beyond after record amounts of rainfall from Hurricane Harvey.

Along with Niagara County, Orleans and Monroe counties are also severely affected by the rising water levels along the shoreline, caused by an increased amount of rainfall this season along with the controversial Plan 2014, an international agreement between the United States and Canada to regulate the water levels in Lake Ontario.

They also analyzed data from a climate model developed by the Max - Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany to predict what the correlation between the current and rainfall would be expected to be during the Little Ice Age.

Water stress can be caused by rising temperatures, decreases in rainfall, or a combination of the two.

Leaving crop residue in the field can reduce moisture loss by the equivalent of an inch or more of rainfall annually, scientists say.

Upon analysis, the samples» carbon isotope values revealed an exceptionally arid region deep in Asia's interior going back 23 million years, initially ringed by areas of higher rainfall.

The researchers found another subtlety in the Amazon's response to rainfall, which has led to new insights on a question under debate: Are seasonal changes in plant growth more limited by lack of sunlight or lack of water?

After allowing for humidity and rainfall, they found that «aerosol optical thickness» — a measure of the concentration of atmospheric particles — decreased by only 10 to 15 per cent compared with the same periods in 2002 to 2007 (Geophysical Research Letters, in press).

Every day, numerous cars and trucks are wearing on Norway's almost one hundred thousand kilometers of road: Asphalt wear on the tires, the tires wear on the asphalt, exhaust flows out from the vehicles and all is shrouded by road dust, until a rainfall cleanses the air, leaving all the dust and particles in the ditch.

Crops and livestock will be affected by flooding, drought and shifts in the timing of rainfall and temperature, but where and how these impacts will be felt is uncertain.

BRAZIL / / / LANDSLIDES In areas surrounding Rio de Janeiro, landslides triggered by rainfall killed 850 in JanuarIn areas surrounding Rio de Janeiro, landslides triggered by rainfall killed 850 in Januarin January.

ENVIRONMENT • Climate Change By mapping equatorial rainfall since A.D. 800, scientists are finding out how weather in the tropics may change through 2100.

Australia also experienced record rainfall in early 2012, and while La Niña, a natural variation, was behind much of that, researchers found that human - caused climate change increased the chance of the above - average rainfall by 5 to 15 percent.

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The dramatic site of Brak had been briefly excavated by Mallowan in the 1930s, but Christie found it not to her liking, since rainfall was too sparse for the flowers she loved to grow; they split their time with another ancient mound farther north with a slightly wetter climate.

New research predicts that by the middle of the century annual rainfall in the Amazon could be less than the yearly amount of rain the region receives during drought years if deforestation rates revert back to pre-2004 levels.

The three studies, discussed in a separate news conference December 13, found that human influence probably increased the hurricane's total rainfall, by anywhere from at least 15 percent to at least 19 percent.

El Niño is also probably making record - breaking illegal fires in Indonesia worse, by reducing rainfall there.

Climate change caused by rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is causing more extreme rainfall and snowfall — and floods

Over the past 34 years, rainfall in Uganda has decreased by about 12 percent even though many of the global climate models predict an increase in rainfall for the area, according to an international team of researchers.

The framework would be useful for solving other questions in the sciences and social sciences in which researchers analyze how three or more components might interact — for example, how climate is affected by the interplay among temperature, rainfall, humidity and ocean acidity.

Global climate models find that rainfall in northeast Brazil is expected to decrease in the coming decades, and some rivers could see flows reduced by 60 to 70 percent, he said.

The amount that worldwide rainfall would be reduced by using space mirrors or sulfur particles to mitigate global warming, according to a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

(By contrast, the historical record indicates that the traditional El Niño, which occurs in the eastern Pacific, has little effect on rainfall levels in the subcontinent.)

Even a dip in revenue caused by spider mite infestations is nothing when considering the damage wrought by this year's abnormally low rainfall.

However, new UMN research published in Environmental Research Letters found that regardless of soil fertility or rainfall amounts, the single variable that was by far the strongest determinant of how much a shrub grew in a given year was the temperature in June.

Planting huge acreages with a single variety of the same genetic makeup meant the entire harvest could be wiped out at once by disease or pests or changes in rainfall.

The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.

All these cooking fires are, in effect, drying the region, both by contributing to the melting of glaciers that feed Asia's major rivers as well as by decreasing the evaporation that drives rainfall.

The rise in temperature will be accompanied by erratic rainfall and increasing drought, the likes of which have already been seen in the country, according to the report.

Despite rainfall decreasing by about 7 inches annually in the grain belt located in Western Australia since the 1970s, wheat production has increased, and Eckard said that's because farmers have employed adaptations such as planting species with shorter growing seasons, dry sowing seeds and tilling fields less often.

They pinned more faith on a local system developed for them by the Institute of Hydrology in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, which bases its predictions on rainfall measurements collected electronically from a network of rain gauges.

Rainfall patterns in the Sahara during the 6,000 - year «Green Sahara» period have been pinpointed by analyzing marine sediments, according to new research.

Using high - resolution cloud models, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute in Norrköping and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen analysed how heavy rainfall is affected by rising temperatures.