Sentences with phrase «extreme snowfall events»

He looked at both average seasonal snowfall and extreme snowfall events under current climate conditions, and also following projected future warming.

Not exact matches

Every time you have an extreme precipitation event, whether it's rain or snowfall or whatever, look at the cost of cleaning up.

In recent years, extreme winter weather events such as heavy snowfalls and severe winters have been occurring frequently in regions such as East Asia, North America and Europe.

I think that's a far better approach than labeling every account of an extreme rain or snowfall a «global warming type» event, as some bloggers insist.

The decadal scenarios are not time series, but rather frequencies of extreme events (including clusters) and worst case scenarios over the target time interval: floods, droughts, heat waves, tropical cyclones, heavy snowfalls, etc..

In 2010, the heat wave in Russia, fires in Israel, flooding in Pakistan and Australia, landslides in China, record snowfall across the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, and 12 Atlantic Ocean hurricanes were among the extreme weather events.

The researchers say that with more solar energy going into the Arctic Ocean because of lost ice, there is reason to expect more extreme weather events, such as heavy snowfall, heat waves, and flooding in North America and Europe but these will vary in location, intensity, and timescales.

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.