Sentences with phrase «change rain patterns»

Cooling a small region by 0.5 ˚C could dramatically change rain patterns.

Changing rain patterns and rising temperatures could put crops in the Midwest at risk.

Not exact matches

With the effect of climate change, the irrigation dam comes in handy to enable citizens who are predominantly farmers to cultivate crops all year round without depending on the unregularly rain pattern.

When rain patterns change and temperatures rise, a number of species will feel pressure to migrate, but will face obstacles beyond geography and development.

Weather forecasters use total rainfall figures to predict floods, and climatologists use the estimates to gauge how rain patterns are changing with climate change.

The added heat changes wind patterns, bringing more rain to the western tropics.

The analysis acknowledges that several U.S. cities and regions have taken the lead in examining how to adapt to sea level rise, changing rain and snowfall patterns, heat waves and other effects of climate change.

Some changes in rain patterns also stem from development itself.

However, if the rain patterns there shift as climatologists predict, torrential rains and longer - lasting floods could dramatically change the habitat, making it unsuitable for this and other monkey species.

Human - induced climate change has contributed to changing patterns of extreme weather across the globe, from longer and hotter heat waves to heavier rains.

While the individual weather pattern may allow for heavy rain, the heaviest of this precipitation is increasing as the world warms from climate change.

The changing season provides pet specialty retailers with an opportunity to take stock of spring - inspired pet supplies that pet owners may need this season — think Easter egg treats, flower patterned collars and leashes, vibrant toys and rain coats — for an endcap display to inspire impulse purchases.

As you venture throughout the world you will see areas that are distinctly different, and fast changing day / night cycles full of weather patterns like rain and snow and high winds.

Although the direct heat increase is not enough to cause much climate change, the indirect influence of solar activity on cloud cover, wind and rain patterns may be large enough to have an important impact.

Sure, growing pineapples in Toronto might be fun, but what do you think will happen in Kansas when the summer heat gets cranked up to broil, and changing weather patterns dry up all the rain for a few months at a time?

Then he says: «We see the level of sea rise, changing weather patterns,» «This year we have MORE [rain] than every year and for the last couple of weeks, the heavy rain falls throughout Vanuatu and it EXCEEDED what has happened in the past.»

This assumes that the main atmospheric circulation patterns don't change much (or is second order, as seems to be the case) and so the moisture that is evaporated into atmosphere and is lying around gets transported to where it already rains and away from the areas where it doesn't.»

With regard to models, even the early ones reproduce the basic pattern of monsoon changes, but there has been continuing difficulty in getting the rain band to move far enough North.

This causes changes in the jetstream position, rain patterns and the Arctic Oscillation (AO).

I have noticed a few things, winter is greatly milder in most parts of the Arctic, dominant winds have equally changed there, rain or precipitation patterns seem out of whack pretty much everywhere else on Earth as well.

... if predictions of climate change prove true, more erratic weather will bring more frequent droughts, with changing weather patterns bringing more rain to some portions of the world while possibly turning others into deserts.

A lot of what the report covers is familiar, if grim, to people who haven't had their fingers in their ears for the past few years; ocean levels are rising, the water in those oceans is becoming more acidic, weather patterns are changing, we can expect more torrential rains in some locations and drought in others, and on and on.

Diseases such as dengue can now be found in more countries, the rain patterns are changing and there are key infrastructure works at risk because of the rise of the sea level.

The latest assessments remain bleak, even with the chance that a change in global weather patterns — which many scientists say is long overdue — could bring rain and snow to Afghanistan this winter.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

The desire for control over fickle patterns of rain or snow has only increased in a world wracked by climate change — and spawned technologically wild ideas for how people can bend even the most powerful storms to their will.

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However, the warmer ocean temperatures are changing the snow and rain patterns around the world.

-- FOOD: Global food prices will rise between 3 and 84 percent by 2050 because of warmer temperatures and changes in rain patterns.

Human - induced climate change has contributed to changing patterns of extreme weather across the globe, from longer and hotter heat waves to heavier rains.

La Niñas change global weather patterns and are associated with less moisture in the air, resulting in less rain along the coasts of North and South America.

changing landscapes Rising temperatures and changing patterns of rain and snow are forcing trees and plants around the world to move toward polar regions and up mountain slopes.

The BBC and The Guardian report Lonsdale's comments that Vanuatu has seen changing weather patterns, rising seas and heavier - than - usual rain, all of which are influenced by climate change.

So the emphasis shifted to poleward shift of climate zones with particular emphasis on rain and desert belts moving such that agriculture is disrupted by great changes in precipitation patterns.

What ever happens in the ENSO scales I think there will still be increased snowfall and rain over the USA over this winter due to the jet stream influences and pressure pattern changes.

With less energy falling on the Earth in general, the water cycle would change and as a result, rain and snowfall patterns would change and would create water winners and losers.

It will cause changes in clouds, rain, albedo, temperature and wind in ways that will alter climate patterns differently than solar visible light effects.

These include increased average land and ocean temperatures that lead to reduced snowpack levels, hydrological changes, and sea level rise; changing precipitation patterns that will create both drought and extreme rain events; and increasing atmospheric CO2 that will contribute to ocean acidification, changes in species composition, and increased risk of fires.

It is also changing rain and snow patterns and increasing the risk of intense storms and droughts.

«In a 2 °C rise world, the region would see changes in rainfall patterns: some areas would be getting much more rain than they are getting today and others would be experiencing droughts.

The changing pattern of the western disturbances, a weather phenomenon that starts in the Mediterranean Sea and brings winter rains to the highlands of India and Pakistan, is leading to warmer Himalayan winters

If they heard about the changing weather patterns affecting agriculture in India and actually cared about the livelihood of farmers there (who rely on steady rains) then would they move faster?

This should translate into weather pattern changes, more snow and rain and more heat and seasonal shift.

This is a strange pattern as there are no rains on the coast of Kerala and Karnataka,» says G Bala, a climate change expert at Indian Institute of Science's Divecha Centre for Climate Change based in Bangchange expert at Indian Institute of Science's Divecha Centre for Climate Change based in BangChange based in Bangalore.

The fact is, the weather patterns have been changing for some time, whether it's wind and rain, excessive snow and snow melting, or rising river levels, flooding is inevitable for many Albertans.

Rapidly changing weather patterns, freezing rain and fog are just a few of the obstacles you might face during your travels (all of which could occur inside a 2 - 3 hour trip!)