Sentences with phrase «extreme snow events»

Farming practice, localizing food production, flood management, extreme snow events, water management, sewage handling are all important infrastructure areas of consideration.

What's more, O'Gorman found that there's a narrow daily temperature range, just below the freezing point, in which extreme snow events tend to occur — a sweet spot that does not change with global warming.

Not exact matches

Cuomo said his decision to exercise extreme caution with this event was informed by a snowstorm in Buffalo a few months ago that, despite a relatively modest forecast, ended up dumping 7 feet of snow on the city and stranding people on roads for hours.

Baseball parks that host tournaments to ski slopes for extreme snow sports, Chautauqua County offers perfect locations for group sporting events... more

What goes up, must come down and, more and more, that water vapor is coming down in extreme precipitation events — defined in North America as more than 100 millimeters of rainfall (or the equivalent in snow or freezing rain) falling in 24 hours — according to new research also published February 17 in Nature that examines such events in the Northern Hemisphere.

When it comes to extreme weather events, last year's Oct. 3 - 5 blizzard that dumped anywhere from 20 to 55 inches of snow on western South Dakota was devastating.

Better resource availability for infrastructure repair required due to extreme weather (e.g., human and physical resources for water main breaks and road repair due to extended freezes, and better stockpiled availability of salt and de-icing chemicals for previously unpredictable extended snow and ice events).

His examination of these extreme events — snow, storms, rainfall — shows an absence of evidence to indicate marked change over recent decades.»

2017 gave us a world where truly extreme weather events appear to be the new normal — wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, a «bomb cyclone» snow storm, and 82 degree days in February.

The dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice and snow is one of the most profound signs of global warming and has coincided with «a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters,» according to the conference organizers, who are posting updates under the #arctic17 hashtag on Twitter.

Among recent extreme lake - effect snow events was a February 2007 10 - day storm total of over 10 feet of snow in western New York state.12

«So you end up with the conclusion that human influence made a particular winter snow event worse, even though it is also — at the same time — reducing the risk of extreme winter snow events.»

Like last year's event, this one is extreme; it is bringing unusually cold temperatures and deluges of autumn snow.

In addition, climate change is very likely to lead to more frequent extreme heat events and daily precipitation extremes over most areas of North America, more frequent low snow years, and shifts towards earlier snowmelt runoff over much of the western US and Canada (high confidence).

This Section places particular emphasis on current knowledge of past changes in key climate variables: temperature, precipitation and atmospheric moisture, snow cover, extent of land and sea ice, sea level, patterns in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, extreme weather and climate events, and overall features of the climate variability.

Heavy snowstorms are not inconsistent with a warming planet... In fact, as the Earth gets warmer and more moisture gets absorbed into the atmosphere, we are steadily loading the dice in favor of more extreme storms in all seasons, capable of causing greater impacts on society... If the climate continues to warm, we should expect an increase in heavy snow events for a few decades, until the climate grows so warm that we pass the point where it's too warm for it to snow heavily.

Extreme weather events, even extreme cold and snow, will still happen in a warmer world.

In 2016, record - breaking ice and snow loss is clearly linked with record warm air temperatures, and evidence suggests the Arctic meltdown is also contributing to extreme weather events around the Northern Hemisphere.

These trends in extreme weather events are accompanied by longer - term changes as well, including surface and ocean temperature increase over recent decades, snow and ice cover decrease and sea level rise.

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

Records in air temperature, ice melt, spring snow cover loss, and extreme weather events are interconnected.

A new study for the first time found links between the rapid loss of snow and sea ice cover in the Arctic and a recent spate of exceptional extreme heat events in North America, Europe, and Asia.

The study adds to the evidence showing that the free - fall in summer sea ice extent and even sharper decline in spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere is reverberating throughout the atmosphere, making extreme events more likely to occur.

On one side of the issue are some meteorologists and climate scientists who in their studies have found correlations between the vanishing Arctic sea ice and snow cover (collectively known as the cryosphere) and weather patterns that can lead to extreme weather events.

More snow in some regions in some years, less snow in other regions, on top of the other extreme events and shifting attractors of AGW, not uniformly more reliable water supply.

It is clear that in terms of weather, environmental health, extreme events, snow, rain drought and flood, the impact of a global average is trivial or less.

Global warming is causing more intense rain and snowstorms in the United States, and making extreme events such as the January 2016 snow storm that crippled most of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast more likely.

Climate change is already causing more extreme weather events and rapid snow melt — two events known to trigger flooding in the Columbia River system.

When driving during major inclement weather such as snow, ice, heavy rain, etc., you should increase your safe following distance to a minimum of 6 seconds (during extreme icing events, as much as 10 seconds is recommended).