Sentences with phrase «causing high flooding»

A couple of weeks ago, the incredibly intense and powerful Hurricane Irma hit our home of Florida, causing high flooding and damage to southern region...

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For the past two years, OPEC's pump - at - will policies have flooded the market with cheap supply, causing economic pain for producers with higher cash costs, including those involved in fracking, the Canadian oil sands and deepwater drilling.

For months Monroe County residents and business owners were ravaged by high waters, the continued flooding caused them to close businesses, caused damage to homes and eroded shoreline protections,» Schumer said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been critical of the way the International Joint Commission has handled high water levels that have caused flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

«We are running out of time to make sure that people in high risk areas are properly protected from the devastation flooding can cause and the ball is now in the government's court.

So, if high winds cause bridge closures, hundreds will be re-routed on a long drive to get to the official proceedings — that is, of course, if flooding doesn't close the local roads.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz's Broad Channel Street Raising Task Force this morning reviewed the progress of the $ 28 million Broad Channel Street Raising Project that will elevate West 11th through 19th Roads to help protect the Broad Channel community from flooding caused by high tides from Jamaica Bay.

«While we can not say the (Hoosick Falls) storm was caused by climate change, incidences of severe weather and flooding such as this have a higher probability in a globally warmed climate,» said Ross Lazear, an instructor at the University at Albany who studies extreme weather and weather forecasting.

The Greece Police Department is asking that no unnecessary travel be made on Edgemere Drive (in the Town of Greece) due to flooding conditions; high winds may cause these flooding conditions to worsen.

Record - setting rainfall in Western New York, combined with high rivers and wet soil from rains in the past two weeks, caused flooding in some areas.

It's not flooding or other weather disasters that cause people to move but rather extreme high temperatures, at least in Pakistan

RoR dams can cause a spike in methylmercury in two ways — they can form small reservoirs, called headponds, which flood soil and create slow - flowing, low - oxygen environments; or they can create higher temperatures in the stream as a result of the reduced flow conditions when portions of the stream are diverted to the turbines.

The cause of the present flood has to do with the mass of water vapor in the air, which is partly the result of higher air temperature.

In this research, we used a three - dimensional hydrodynamic model to simulate surges in the Clyde during storms; our findings suggest that floods are caused not only by extreme surges but also by moderate surges coupled with high spring tides.

They have the capacity to cause damaging flooding in coastal areas, especially when they coincide with high spring tides.

A flood from sea may be caused by a heavy storm (storm surge), a high tide, a tsunami, or a combination thereof.

California Flooding: $ 1.5 Billion When: Feb. 8 to 22, 2017 Deaths: 5 The damage: Heavy rainfall — and the subsequent high water, fallen trees, avalanches mudslides and sinkholes — caused severe property damage in Northern and Central California from.

Over the whole time period, floods have caused the highest amount of economic losses, however, in recent times, since 1960, the highest percentage has switched to storm (and storm surge) with around 30 % of losses.

The 8 inches of sea level rise produced by global warming so far has worsened the tolls of storm surges, including those caused by Hurricane Sandy, and subjected coastal cities to high tide flooding of unprecedented frequency.

As the same volume of water now has to pass through a narrower channel, high tides rise higher, causing deeper and more widespread floods (Global and Planetary Change, doi.org/s8h).

The eight - day storm dumped more than 17 inches of rain, causing the Platte River to reach flood levels higher than ever recorded.

Higher sea levels increase the risk of big storms — such as Hurricane Sandy — that cause flooding.

For the hydrological modelling of the Thames river catchment done at CEH we showed that the changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation caused higher peak 30 - day river flow, while flood risk mapping revealed a small increase in flood risk for properties in the Thames catchment.

Many people are very worried, even scared, about abrupt climate change causing extreme weather events like torrential rains with floods, droughts, high winds, etc. increasing in severity, duration, frequency and impact.

The average flood height increased by about 4 feet in New York between the two time periods and with continued warming, larger and more extreme storms along with even higher sea level is likely to cause more frequent and intense flooding.

Research shows that high - calorie, high - fat meals cause a sudden spike in CRP and other inflammatory markers because they flood the body with blood glucose and triglycerides.

However, the high concentration of these chemicals in the form of aspartame floods your central nervous system and can cause excessive firing of brain neurons.

Ask yourself this, what foods cause the biggest insulin response, aka, what foods cause the biggest flood of glucose in the system causing your insulin to go sky high to clear it?

When stress becomes chronic, the flood of stress chemicals — adrenaline and cortisol — produced by your adrenal glands interfere with your thyroid hormones, causing a whole gamut of health - related issues like obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and / or unstable blood sugar levels.

A jury found Ruben Perez not guilty this month on 21 counts of criminally negligent homicide — one count for each of the high school students killed when the soft - drink truck he was driving ran a stop sign and collided with the bus, causing it to veer off the road and plunge into a flooded gravel pit.

What I was told is that the idle is high and flooding the engine in the morning or when it sits awhile, and that the idle being high is the cause of the clunk.

My take is that the tug of war over what's causing today's telegenic heat waves, floods, tempests — and even Arctic sea - ice retreats — distracts from the high confidence scientists have in the long - term (but less sexy) picture: that more CO2 will lead to centuries of climate and coastal changes with big consequences for a growing human population (for better and worse in the short run, and likely mostly for the worse in the long run).

This is important because most destruction and loss of life are caused by high category storms and their attendant storm surges, and by freshwater flooding from torrential rains.

However, higher temperatures do cause an increased chance of heavy precipitation events, and it is likely that the flooding in some of this year's U.S. flooding disasters were significantly enhanced by the presence of more water vapor in the air due to global warming.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

To this point, the City of Miami began a combined program of installing pumps to rid streets of flooding at times of high tide and has assessed a property tax to begin its efforts to fight the surge of waters set off by human caused climate change.

«With very high sea surface temperatures that have a strong global warming component, these flooding events break records, and cause untold damage,» he says.

The impacts of sea level rise, in the form of higher storm surges and increasingly common flooding at times of astronomical high tides, are already causing damage in the U.S. and worldwide.

Miss all the factors by an hour or two and the tide will not be high enough to cause flooding.

High tides linked to the full moon since the weekend caused minor flooding from Florida to New England, underscoring the need for improved coastal infrastructure at a time of faster rising seas.

Noting that the current atmospheric concentration of CO2 is higher than it's been in the past 650,000 years, the IPCC predicts that human - induced climate change could spell extinction for 20 to 30 percent of the world's species by the end of this century, cause increasingly destructive weather patterns, and flood coastal cities.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...&Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

A flood is defined as any high flow, overflow, or inundation by water that causes or threatens damage.17 Floods are caused or amplified by both weather - and human - related factors.

Islands closer to the Equator such as Kiribati and Tuvalu had intense rain causing flooding, as well as higher sea levels due to warmer waters and weaker trade winds.

«Within less than the term of a 30 - year mortgage, sea level rise could cause floods this high to occur once every five years, or even every year, depending on the location,» a Climate Central report found.

Food availability could be threatened through direct climate impacts on crops and livestock from increased flooding, drought, shifts in the timing and amount of rainfall, and high temperatures, or indirectly through increased soil erosion from more frequent heavy storms or through increased pest and disease pressure on crops and livestock caused by warmer temperatures and other changes in climatic conditions.

As Wall Street profits remain sky high and fat cat bonuses are doled out on silver spoons, the world's poor are struggling to deal with a climate crisis that they did not cause, facing increasingly severe droughts, floods, crop losses and water shortages.

The highest daily rainfall anomalies came with Storms, Desmond, Eva and Frank hitting the UK in December, causing extensive flooding and damage in Northern England.

The pace of sea level rise is also increasingly apparent — clear - days floods, caused by nothing more than the normal high - tide cycle, now occasionally top levels seen only in past hurricanes.

This causes violent flood waves that can reach as high as 15 meters, destroying downstream settlements, damns, bridges, and other infrastructure.