Sentences with phrase «day rainfall»

However, because the skill of in day - to - day rainfall amounts and locations continues to improve, it might be feasible to call for limited evacuations in the most vulnerable locations.)

[24] Bush Continental Airport broke its record for wettest calendar day by over five inches, receiving 16.07 inches of rain on August 27th, and Hobby Airport set a new two - day rainfall record with 23.06 inches August 26th - 27th, surpassing its previous record by nearly eight inches.

Soil Moisture Matthew drenched the Carolinas, breaking records for single day rainfall in six places, The Washington Post reported.

Their methods were a little different: they focused on 7 - day rainfall totals rather than 3 - day totals, for example, and checked for the influence of El Niño / La Niña conditions.

The researchers use the previous record - high 7 - day rainfall as an example.

Preliminary one day and four day rainfall totals for the period are summarized in Table 1 and depicted in Figure 1.

According to a study published in the latest Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) special issue on attribution, climate change did not contribute to the extreme five - day rainfall event that caused the floods.

: Map of southwest Alberta and southeast BC depicting four - day rainfall totals from the 19th through the 22nd of June, 2013.

Figure 1: Map of southwest Alberta and southeast BC depicting four - day rainfall totals from the 19th through the 22nd of June, 2013.

Sioux Falls received more than 13 inches of rain in June — almost 11 inches more than average, making the recent storm the state's third - highest one - day rainfall.

For New York City (which suffered the same flooding during Superstorm Sandy in late October 2012 as the coast in nearby New Jersey, shown), floods due to either a storm surge of 1.15 meters (enough to overtop Manhattan's seawall) or a 1 - day rainfall of 12 centimeters (4.7 inches) occurred, statistically, once every 245 years, the researchers found.

The seven - day rainfall total from Harvey was as much as 40 percent higher than rainfall from a similar storm would have been decades ago, before human activity caused atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to spike, according to a study published yesterday in Geophysical Research Letters.

New Zealand experienced an extreme two - day rainfall in December 2011; researchers said 1 to 5 percent more moisture was available for that event due to climate change, which is increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

According to National Centers for Environmental Information and NOAA, more than 30 inches of rainfall fell on 6.9 million people while 1.25 million experienced over 45 inches and 11,000 people (including many in Southeast Texas) had over 50 inches based on seven - day rainfall totals ending Aug. 31.

[This] is not possible to assess from proxy data — but many [other] lines of evidence indicate more extreme single day rainfalls in parts of the world since 1990.»

Furiously destructive Hurricanes are not the only indicator of AGW, in context of those Hurricanes cycles in the past, or rather in contrast with past high intensity hurricane seasons, we now experience all time high temperatures raging everywhere in the world, 1 meter a day rainfalls, severe droughts on 4 distinct continents, many glaciers going or gone everywhere, and a good chunk of the Arctic Ocean permanent ice melted.

Not exact matches

The National Weather Service called the rainfall event «unprecedented», and while the National Hurricane Center's warnings of «catastrophic and life - threatening flooding» have subsided, the floodwaters in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana will take days, if not a week, to retreat.

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

The storm dumped more than nine trillion gallons of water on Houston, the equivalent of a years» worth of rainfall in four - and - a-half days.

More than 200 days since the Hurricane Maria's 150 mph winds and 36 inches of rainfall knocked over 80 percent of the island's power lines, thousands of Puerto Ricans are still in the dark.

This stalling is one of the reasons Harvey has become so dangerous: It's expected to stay in the area for days, blasting the region with literally feet of rainfall.

Extreme rainfall events are trending upward, and nine of the top 10 years for extreme one - day precipitation events have happened since 1990.

These include the peak rate of rainfall, total volume of rain, the three - day average rainfall, and the maximum depth of rainfall.

«Given the enormous level of rainfall along the Texas Gulf Coast the past 3 - 4 days, we expect most operators in this area will experience near - term field level and / or takeaway issues,» Capital One Securities wrote in a research note on Monday.

Ask him what the average rainfall or highest temperature day was back in 2006 and he'll probably know the answer.

The driest month in terms of rainfall and rain days is January, which receives an average of 27.5 millimetres (1.08 in) over 4.6 days.

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

#Harvey's heavy rainfall isn't over yet - an additional 10 - 25 inches expected over the next 5 days for much of the area #houwx #glswx #txwx pic.twitter.com/4hVDdXi 2lH

[hide] Climate data for Ghana Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high °C (°F) 31 (88) 32 (90) 32 (90) 32 (90) 32 (90) 29 (84) 27 (81) 27 (81) 29 (84) 30 (86) 31 (88) 31 (88) 32 (90) Average high °C (°F) 27.5 (81.5) 27.5 (81.5) 28 (82) 28 (82) 27 (81) 26 (79) 25 (77) 24 (75) 26 (79) 26 (79) 27 (81) 27 (81) 28 (82) Average low °C (°F) 23 (73) 23 (73) 24 (75) 24 (75) 23 (73) 23 (73) 22 (72) 21 (70) 22 (72) 22 (72) 23 (73) 23 (73) 21 (70) Record low °C (°F) 15 (59) 17 (63) 20 (68) 19 (66) 21 (70) 20 (68) 19 (66) 18 (64) 20 (68) 19 (66) 21 (70) 17 (63) 15 (59) Average rainfall mm (inches) 16 (0.63) 37 (1.46) 73 (2.87) 82 (3.23) 145 (5.71) 193 (7.6) 49 (1.93) 16 (0.63) 40 (1.57) 80 (3.15) 38 (1.5) 18 (0.71) 787 (30.99) Average rainy days 2 2 5 7 11 14 7 6 8 9 4 2 77 Average relative humidity (%) 79 77 77 80 82 85 85 83 82 83 80 79 85 Mean monthly sunshine hours 214 204 223 213 211 144 142 155 171 220 240 235 2,372 Source: Climatemps.com [57] Rivers Main article: Rivers of Ghana

The storm is only projected to bring about an inch of rain to the area with no prolonged periods of rainfall over the next several days, according to the NWS.

While the trends associated with climate change — hotter days, heavier rainfall and a greater number of extreme weather events — are present in the models, for many crops in Africa and Asia it's not clear how extensive the effects will be.

Parts of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, meanwhile, could see 21 consecutive days of less than 1 millimeter of rainfall.

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.

«It can't be detected at present day because the signal, the decrease in rainfall, is small compared to the interannual variability in rainfall,» said Gordon Bonan, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, who was not connected to the study.

Jon: That was then followed by nine days of really torrential rainfall which again is not what you think about when you think of Antarctica.

Comparing five state - of - the - art weather prediction models, researchers found current models can forecast both where and how much rainfall a tropical cyclone will produce up to two days in advance.

Meteorologists warn the worst is yet to come, with the storm expected to dump 200 to 300 millimeters of rain in a single day — two to three times the country's normal rainfall for an entire year.

«In between days of rainfall there are long, dry periods — overall the perception is that production has gone down across the region.»

Researchers accounted for human influence on climate by estimating the present - day chances of Harvey's rainfall totals and then comparing them with 1950s greenhouse gas levels.

For instance, on one day that hay was cut — two weeks after a major rainfall that shunted diluted manure into the field — only four of 10 tested soil samples hosted Escherichia coli O157.

And again, does Freeman Dyson, assuming he is willing to get on an airplane even though models have been used to test the performance of the airplane, assuming he does and he knows he's going somewhere where they've predicted, where weather models have predicted rainfall for the next seven days, does he not pack his umbrella because he doesn't believe the models?

For instance, the models did not tie the record Colorado floods after five days of heavy rainfall in September 2013 to climate change (ClimateWire, Oct. 30, 2013).

Fall colors in the Harvard Forest on any given day (Oct. 9 in this case) vary from year to year, depending on temperature and rainfall.

The purpose of the signs was to communicate rainfall levels in the last seven days and to remind people that most South Florida lawns only need one inch of water per week.

«At any point in the tropics, we'd look at rainfall on a particular day and look at how the air traveled to get to that point over the past four to five days,» Spracklen said.

What we call the weather is a highly detailed mix of events that happen in a particular locality on any particular day — rainfall, temperature, humidity and so on — and its development can vary wildly with small changes in a few of these variables.

December 2011: Two days of extreme rainfall deluge New Zealand's Southern Island, producing landslides in what scientists call a 1 - in -500-year-event.

Rainfall oxygen isotopic ratios are good indicators of the amount of rainfall occurring throughout the region, as determined by a modern - day calibration study recently published by another graduate student in CobRainfall oxygen isotopic ratios are good indicators of the amount of rainfall occurring throughout the region, as determined by a modern - day calibration study recently published by another graduate student in Cobrainfall occurring throughout the region, as determined by a modern - day calibration study recently published by another graduate student in Cobb's lab.

Other high - risk hot spots include Mexico, northeast Brazil, southern Africa and West Africa, assessed by indicators like future water availability, number of days above 30 degrees Celsius, length of the growing period, reliable growing days and high or low rainfall.

Hurricane alerts are in place from Acapulco, which lies in Guerrero state, to Lazaro Cardenas in Michoacan state, and heavy rainfall during the next few days could trigger life - threatening flash floods and mud slides, the weather service said.