Sentences with phrase «events like the weather»

And, as he has frequently noted, there's the uncertainty of external events like the weather, which sometimes require money be moved around.

School closures for rare events like weather, broken heating systems, bomb threats and flooding account for less than one quarter of missed instructional time.

Affects multiple natural events like the weather and melting the polar ice caps.

If predicting events like the weather was easy, choosing the right insurance coverage would be easy too.

Not exact matches

One degree may not sound like much, but Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany, says, «Every tenth of a degree increases the number of unprecedented extreme weather events considerably.»

Similarly, the Northeast is expected to experience more extreme weather events, like hot summers and, in the short run, super cold winters.

Climate change, driven by use of fossil fuels like tar sands, is causing extreme weather events around the globe.

While no specific weather event like this can be directly attributed to global warming, it does fit the pattern of increased hurricane activity overall since the 1970s, coinciding with a rise in sea temperature.

Because climate change is linked to an increase in severe weather events — like hurricanes, tsunamis and extreme temperatures — poorer countries that lack the infrastructure and resources to handle them leave millions at risk.

Safety policies should cover company procedures for extreme weather events like hurricanes, blizzards and other situations that could potentially be hazardous for employees.

With bettors bailing on the Cowboys, severe weather everywhere and extremely low NFL totals, this weekend is looking more like an episode of «The Twilight Zone» than a collection of sporting events.

Lord Sebastian Coe, president of the IAAF, described the event as «one of the most successful of all time» and continued by saying: «I'd like to thank the organising committee, Birmingham City Council, the athletes and the fans — who fought through pretty extraordinary weather conditions to be here.»

He said recent extreme weather like the floods in Gloucestershire had demonstrated the need to ensure back - up systems were «similarly proofed against extreme weather events».

«What we're really being hit with is these very extreme weather events, like the hurricane last year,» said Queens City Councilman James Gennaro, who said so - called 20 - year storms now seem to happen «pretty much happen every year.»

He was not the architect of the events that unfolded last week — opposition leaders seldom make the weather like that — but he has become the first leading politician in living memory to get up off his knees and challenge the malign hold Murdoch and his acolytes have on British politics.

Compared with weather events like floods or cyclones, the droughts are a slow - onset manifestation of changing climate.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

Only a few weather events like those projected have ever been recorded.

CLIMATE scientists tend to shy away from assigning blame for extreme weather events like the fictional heatwave described above.

Combing through the numbers, she pieced together the variables associated with ramp events, like the time of day, the season and ambient weather.

The study included a wide variety of severe weather events, Konisky said, and its findings may not entirely apply to headline - grabbing events like the Texas flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey or the threat to Florida by Hurricane Irma.

Those more extreme weather events are expected to jeopardize crops like bananas and sugar cane.

The authors suggest that developing greater resilience to extreme weather events must be given greater priority if the socioeconomic impact of storms, like those that have ravaged Britain this winter, is to be reduced.

«Our analysis suggests that such space weather events may prove to be a key driver of atmospheric losses for exoplanets orbiting an active young Sun - like star,» the authors write.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

Playing the climate blame game The question of whether climate change is responsible for extreme weather events like the heatwave that set Russia alight in 2010 is one of the hottest topics in climate science.

Extreme weather events like hurricanes and drought are poised to get worse, which can cause immediate injuries as well as harm from hunger, disease and poverty as infrastructure crumbles.

If science can nail climate change as a probable cause of deadly weather events, like the heatwave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003, then global warming becomes a matter for product liability law.

Professor Baldwin added: «Natural large pressure fluctuations in the polar stratosphere tend to last a long time — at least a month, and we see this reflected as surface pressure changes that look very much like the North Atlantic Oscillation — which has significant effects on weather and extreme events across Europe.»

Extreme weather events like Harvey are expected to become more likely as Earth's climate changes due to greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists don't understand how extreme weather will impact invasive pests, pollinators and other species that affect human well - being.

Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

Wildfires, extreme storms and major weather events can seem like a distant threat, but for those whose lives have been directly impacted by these events, the threat hits much closer to home.

According to fossil evidence, small primates — a group of mammals that includes humans and our closest monkey relatives — first arrived in Jamaica during the Miocene (23 million to 25 million years ago), probably on mats of vegetation that can form during major weather events, like hurricanes, that could have carried them from the American mainland.

Nor can they say what role climate change could have had on a single weather event like a hurricane.

But despite that steady climb, not every year is warmer than the one before it, thanks to the vagaries of weather, the influence of natural climate cycles, and the effects of events like volcanic eruptions.

The chance of a double six with a good pair of dice is one in thirty six, so to check if we are getting slightly too many of them, you need to roll the dice hundreds of times (unfortunately, for the weather dice, we can't work out how the odds of a rare event have changed simply by looking at more frequent events, like a single six).

The analyses also projected what weather events were likely to be like in the future.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are applying atmospheric science research capabilities to improve our understanding of long - term weather trends and better predict extreme weather events like these — and it all starts with studying clouds.

In particular, extreme weather events that lead to habitat destruction and large wildfires provide ideal conditions for invasive predators like feral cats and red foxes to move in and decimate native fauna.

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 main objectives of the mission include obtaining new data on solar activity to help to better forecast space - weather events like solar flares which can directly impact Earth and orbiting satellites, trace the flow of energy from the Sun, better understand how the Sun's outer atmosphere is heated, and explore the physical mechanisms which accelerate the solar wind.

Frigid weather like the two - week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real - time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change.

With events like Hurricane Irene, the Texas drought and the Midwest floods, 2011 has already set a record for billion dollar weather disasters.

This, scientists say, is potentially very good news, as we could use the barrier to protect Earth from extreme space weather resulting from events like coronal mass ejections — huge explosions on the sun, where plasmas and magnetic field are ejected from its corona, the outermost part of its atmosphere.

Crowd favorites like avocados and chocolate could be in trouble thanks to increased temperatures and extreme weather events.

That may be because people are better at recalling events that confirm their pre-existing views, he says, like taking note of pain on bad weather days, but not on nicer ones.

Her posts range from the OOTD to special occasions / situations, reports about local fashion events, reviews, and once in a while some science, like for instance, why clothes are electrostatic in dry, cold weather!

«I like this style of shirt and it is my go - to for casual events in summer weather.

In tricky transitional weather, a moto jacket with a shearling collar, like Sophia's The Arrivals topper, is a cool (and warm) touch for the car - to - event walk, and is easily left on a chair when you're ready to hit the dance floor.