Sentences with phrase «extreme wet years»

What extreme wet years offer, biologists suggest, is a window of opportunity.

Not exact matches

What's more, the authors found that these relationships between LAI and surface biophysics were amplified up to five times under extreme warm - dry and cold - wet years.

During each of these periods the local climate of East Africa varied over a 20,000 - year cycle, from extreme aridity to very wet conditions.

Daniel Swain and colleagues model how the frequency of these rapid, year - to - year transitions from extreme dry to wet conditions — which they dub «precipitation whiplash events» — may change in California's future as a consequence of man - made warming.

The focus of the new study is how researchers pieced together a record of extreme wet and dry periods across the northern hemisphere for the past 1,200 years.

He's a male Hispanic, 40 years old, brown eyes, curly black hair, light - skinn, 7 & 1/2 inch cock with a nice mushroom head he's into doggy, missionary, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl, turns offs: ghetto girls», loud people, extreme bbws, chubby girls, anal, Asians, middle eastern, balls wet.

Worked all year round even in very cold or wet conditions, their coats are generally thick, warm and waterproof to deal with the most extreme climates.

Although the extremes appear to balance out, making for a near - average year, in fact a record 58 percent of the contiguous United States was either extremely wet or extremely dry in 2011.

In 1988 — the same year Nasa's James Hansen warned Congress about the threats posed by human - caused global warming — water expert Peter Gleick wrote about the wet and dry extremes that it would create for California:

«Even though California historically has periods of dry and wet years, there isn't an analog for climate extremes like the ones we've observed in recent years, such as those record - breaking prolonged periods of drought following by periods of intense precipitation pulses that cause flooding,» Woodburn said.

What is pretty clear, though, is that this year's extreme wetness on the seasonal scale has pushed parts of California's aging water infrastructure to the brink — and had even a single additional warm, wet atmospheric river come ashore during the peak of winter, the overall flood situation might have been considerably more serious.

Although not preceded by an extreme wet spell, 2010/11 were wet years followed by an extreme heatwave in Jan, 2013.

A new study suggests the frequency of rapid, year - to - year swings from extreme dry to wet conditions may become more common in California as a consequence of man - made global warming.

In other words, the scientists said, moderate California weather may be a thing of the past, with weather trending toward extremely warm and dry years, with intermittent extremes of warm and wet weather.

While the years with warm and wet weather extremes have also become more common in the state, increased temperatures accompanying the precipitation tend to lead to quicker evaporation, Diffenbaugh said.

In this year, an extreme negative value of the SAM is associated with the wettest winter in SWWA during the period 1948 — 2007.

These impacts are part of a wider trend of more extreme weather (for example: California had the second wettest year on record in 2016 - 2017), for which we will need to plan and adapt.

In 1988 — the same year Nasa's James Hansen warned Congress about the threats posed by human - caused global warming — water expert Peter Gleick wrote about the wet and dry extremes that it would create for California: «California will get the worst of all possible worlds — more flooding in the winter, less available water in the summer.»

PCIC's Trevor Murdock delivered a talk about the 200 - year flooding event in Bella Coola, discussing the results of climate downscaling approaches and future projections, which call for greater changes in more extreme events and wetter winters.

The strength and resilience of garden nature and wildlife is often pushed to the limits during winter months in the UK, but this year's cold season proved more extreme than usual, with extended periods of wet weather and low temperatures.