Sentences with phrase «cyclones cause»

Now, areas like the country's western Rakhine coast are in a vicious cycle, where annual tropical storms and cyclones cause increasing destruction to these natural barriers.

Not exact matches

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

The cyclone of a late spring storm had already caused five deaths in Montgomery, and a twister had just touched down in Talladega, where Vincent (Bo) Jackson was headed.

Hurricane Harvey is an active tropical cyclone that has caused an unprecedented and catastrophic flooding in southeastern Texas.

The 1997 - 8 El Niño killed 20,000 people and caused almost $ 97 billion of damage as floods, droughts, fires, cyclones and mudslides ravaged the world.

Join us below at 1 P.M. Eastern time on Tuesday, October 30 for a live 30 - minute online chat with climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh of Stanford University, who will discuss Sandy — the tropical cyclone that has caused 20 deaths and left more than seven million people in the U.S. Northeast without power.

Iron ore miners were waiting for conditions to ease before assessing damage caused by a cyclone that ripped across northwest Australia on Tuesday, closing ports and threatening mining operations in the sparsely populated Pilbara region.

Nowadays, there is a raging debate over whether climate change, and the overall rise in global temperature it is supposed to bring, will cause tropical cyclones to develop more often and become more powerful in the future.

Afterward, a cyclone pummeled the Fertile Crescent and caused a massive flood.

The continued warming of tropical oceans is likely to cause stresses on ecosystems, such as coral bleaching, and stronger tropical cyclones.

«The USGS stream gauges, located east of the Rocky Mountains, showed that tropical cyclones can cause major flooding over the Midwest, including the southeastern corner of Iowa,» he says.

Separately, heavy rain associated with remnant tropical cyclones from the East Pacific impacted Texas, causing significant flooding and drought relief across the state.

Any cooling effects related to the cyclone are likely to be negligible in relation to the damage it caused, which unfortunately struck a section of the reef that had largely escaped the worst of the bleaching.

The cyclones of 1887 and 1935 each caused the deaths of at least 140 men.

Unfortunately the resort remains closed while repairs to the damaged cause by cyclone Yasi continue.

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Dennis: Due to intense fist pumping, God of War III will cause a cyclone that demolishes all attendees.

Almost as dangerous as the cyclones or earthquakes themselves is the myth that the destruction and deaths they cause are somehow unavoidable, the inevitable result of natural calamity.

The model suggests that during the cyclone there was a quadrupling of melting from below, and that this was the biggest cause for doubling ice loss during the three - day storm.

Here's a depressing study about the great barrier reef, which reports that half the reef has died in the past 27 years, and that over half the cause is climatic conditions (cyclones and temperature), with the rest being due largely from agricultural effluent (which causes food chain imbalances).

Similar to 6, 7, and 9 above, «We recognize that climate change, left unaddressed, is expected to threaten food production from land and sea, to limit fresh water availability, to cause more severe weather including cyclones, droughts and floods, to increase life - threatening illnesses, to endanger biodiversity» and so on.

So - called «baroclinic instabilities» are more important for the mid-latitude storms, whereas plain convective instabilities are the primary cause for the tropical cyclones — such as an increase in the CAPE.

Axel Schweiger wrote, that we had just a couple of warm springs, which caused the deviation from the GCM predictions, and this is one interesting point: Is this «couple o» warm springs» really something coming and going like any cyclone, or is it a sign of a changing weather regime with stronger mixing and stronger heat transport?

The core passage on tropical cyclones illustrates the challenge in discerning cause and effect when dealing with rare events:

Finally, the Statement notes that, «The scientific debate... is not as to whether global warming can cause a trend in tropical cyclone intensities.

The core passage on tropical cyclones illustrates the challenge in discerning cause and effect when dealing with rare events: Read more...

As to underlying causes, neither the frequency of tropical or extratropical cyclones over the North Atlantic are projected to appreciably change due to climate change, nor have there been indications of a change in their statistical behavior over this region in recent decades (see IPCC 2012 SREX report).

I can't find good numbers, but I'd guess that cold - season extratropical cyclones probably cause > US$ 2B in damage a year and, with the exception of the years with Camille, Agnes, and Katrina, have killed more people almost every year in the last 40 years.

Burma's minister for relief and resettlement, Maung Maung Swe, said more deaths were caused by the cyclone's storm surge rather than the winds which reached 190km / h (120mph).

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,

«Future projections based on theory and high - resolution dynamical models consistently suggest that greenhouse warming will cause the globally averaged intensity of tropical cyclones to shift towards stronger storms,» Knutson et al. (2010); Grinsted et al. (2013) projected «a twofold to sevenfold increase in the frequency of Katrina magnitude events for a 1 °C rise in global temperature.»

They are not really a cyclone because they are caused by the rotation of the earth, not conservation of angular momentum.

However, we know what causes large - scale cyclones like hurricanes and typhoons: Heat.

I wonder could it be the influence of an increasing number of cyclones (caused by global warming???) hitting the north west coast and moving inland in a south easterly direction, providing brief but heavy rain to an otherwise dry area?

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment has decided to constitute «Extreme Weather Forecasting and information Dissemination Mechanism» headed by Rishi Ram Sharma, Director General at the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology to prevent human casualties caused by severe weather induced by tropical cyclones.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found in March 2017 that it's «premature to conclude that human activities — and particularly greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming — have already had a detectable impact on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity.»

Official records show that there were a total of thirteen major maritime disasters possibly caused by tropical cyclones.

These events were also caused by tropical cyclones.

-- An increase in the frequency and magnitude of extreme climate events (hurricanes, cyclones, storm surges) causing flooding and direct injury

The direct economic losses and casualties caused by landfalling tropical cyclones in China during 1983 — 2006 are examined using the dataset released by the Department of Civil Affairs of China... The direct economic losses trended upward significantly over the past 24 yr.

In a rare occurrence, a cyclone that started in the Bay of Bengal caused an avalanche in the Himalayas, killing at least 19 in Nepal

Under this scenario, peak precipitation rates are likely to increase by 25 % as a result of increases in maximum tropical cyclone wind intensities, which in turn cause higher storm surges.

There are a lot of graphs there and elsewhere, but watching this satellite sequence give some indication of how the recent, and current, — emergent cyclones have caused the ice to break up spread out, and melt in warmer (by arctic standards) water.

On the Indian sub-continent, especially near the mouths of the River Ganges, death tolls from storm surges caused by tropical cyclones have been huge.

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...»

During the past century, over 400 tropical cyclones have struck Bangladesh's coast, causing widespread devastation and death.

This does not mean that climate stabilization policies do not make sense or that policy makers should ignore influences of human - caused climate change on tropical cyclone behavior.

A study published today suggests sea level rise could cause at least 84 to 139 extra deaths per year from cyclone - related coastal flooding in the United States by 2100, for example.

Mozambique suffered its worst floods in six years in February, followed by a tropical cyclone the same month, and flooding of the Nile River in June caused damage in Sudan.

A large cyclone in 1970 caused 500,000 deaths, but a similar cyclone in the same area in late 2007 (including a tsunami - like 2 - metre - high sea water intrusion) caused only 8000 deaths, though affecting the houses or livelihoods or 8 million people: most of the more exposed people received early warning, and took refuge in thousands of government - built cyclone shelters, chiefly schools and other public buildings, made of concrete and other hard materials, and built upon 12 - 15 feet high concrete pillars.