Sentences with phrase «extreme downpours»

At century's end, the number of summertime storms that produce extreme downpours could increase by more than 400 percent across parts of the United States — including sections of the Gulf Coast, Atlantic Coast, and the Southwest — according...

Some of the meteorological threats, like extreme downpours and heat waves, are sure to worsen in a human - heated climate, with warming from elevated levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases seen by many climate scientists as already contributing to the severity of rains like those over Texas in recent days and Louisiana last year.

One possibility is that future extreme downpours or snows could be more severe, the authors wrote.

While there's evidence that increasing greenhouse heating of the planet is exacerbating hot spells and extreme downpours, and may be related to hurricane intensity (but not frequency), a combination of imprecise records and deep complexity in the mix of forces that generate killer tornadoes has clouded any link to global warming.

He offered these thoughts and studies, which, in the aggregate, point to no robust trend either in extreme downpours or extreme stream flows:

You'll find similar evidence regarding flooding, extreme downpours, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, Antarctic ice loss, Arctic ice loss, etc..

Not exact matches

This month the IPCC releases its second report, which focuses on global warming's impacts, ranging from intensifying droughts to heavier downpours and other extreme weather events.

«The wrong weather at the wrong time» But one fact that bee experts all agree on is that while bees, particularly honeybees, are very adaptable creatures in normal circumstances, they are highly vulnerable to extremes of weather, particularly downpours and flooding.

To attribute any specific extreme weather event — such as the downpours that caused flooding in Pakistan or Australia, for example — requires running such computer models thousands of times to detect any possible human impact amidst all the natural influences on a given day's weather.

Researchers have been trying for some time to determine how much of a connection exists between climate change and extreme events like downpours.

Looking at extremes, consider the stark contrast between the severe droughts in California in recent years and the torrential downpours, mudslides and flooding this past winter.

From heat waves to downpours, a number of extreme weather phenomena have become more common or severe due to climate change.

More vulnerable infrastructure due to sea - level rise, bigger storm surges, heavy downpours and extreme heat;

Yes, global warming increases absolute humidity so more extreme weather incidents are expected — as in more downpours and fewer drizzles.

Ljungqvist said many existing scientific models of climate change over-estimated assumptions that rising temperatures would make dry areas drier and wet areas wetter, with more extreme heatwaves, droughts, downpours and droughts.

A couple of years ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established a «Climate Scene Investigation» strike team tasked with quickly assessing the causes of extreme events — mega downpours, off - the - chart heat waves and the like.

Other changes flow from this warming, including melting of snow and ice, rising sea level, and increases in some types of extreme weather, such as extreme heat and heavy downpours.

Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, heavy downpours, floods, and other extreme weather events are projected to become more frequent and intense, with serious consequences for human health and well - being.

Regardless, record - breaking high temperatures, droughts, wildfires, and heavy downpours are all signs of new extreme weather patterns that we can expect to see more of in a warming world, both domestically and abroad.

The United States has not been spared from weather extremes, notably deluges like the disastrous downpour in Tennessee that led to extensive flooding in May.

From increasingly frequent and severe types of extreme events that include heatwaves, coastal flooding and heavier downpours, the costs of climate change are becoming tangible throughout the country.

Certain types of extreme weather events with links to climate change have become more frequent and / or intense, including prolonged periods of heat, heavy downpours, and, in some regions, floods and droughts.

And with our weather patterns becoming stronger and less predictable, the spring showers of the past are turning into extreme storms, leading to sudden downpours, rushing waters, and flooded roads.

Infrastructure across the U.S. is being adversely affected by phenomena associated with climate change, including sea level rise, storm surge, heavy downpours, and extreme heat... Floods along the nation's rivers, inside cities, and on lakes following heavy downpours, prolonged rains, and rapid melting of snowpack are damaging infrastructure in towns and cities, farmlands, and a variety of other places across the nation.

«Last year was the warmest on record and the UN panel of climate scientists says man - made climate change is already visible in more heat extremes, downpours and rising sea levels as ice melts from the Alps to the Andes,» the paper declared.

The IPCC scientists predict that because of global warming the future will bring more and deadlier extreme weather of all kinds: more hurricanes, tornadoes, downpours, heat waves, droughts and blizzards.

Though the report still says, rightly, that any specific weather event can not be solely tied to climate change — be it the totally unseasonable snowfall that hit the Northeast this past weekend, the devastating flooding in Thailand, etc. — but that scientists now are 99 % certain that climate change will cause more extreme heat waves, fewer extreme spells of cold weather, and more intense downpours.

And cities everywhere face risks including more frequent and more extreme heat waves and increasing heavy downpours.