Sentences with phrase «extremely wet year»

1890 was wet and was followed by 1893 (also an extremely wet year).

Not exact matches

The scenario was simulated thousands of times in order to calculate the odds of getting a bout of extremely wet weather at that particular time of year.

Shimon Wdowinski, a seismologist at the University of Miami, Florida, says that he has found a strong correlation between extremely wet tropical cyclones striking Taiwan and big earthquakes that occur up to three years later.

In the UK, the probability of seeing an extremely wet winter like we did this year is 25 per cent higher than it was before humans started influencing the climate, scientists announced at the European Geosciences Union conference today.

The team included a parameterization to represent irrigation in the Noah land surface model applied in WRF, and conducted a series of simulations with and without irrigation over the SGP for an extremely dry year (2006) and wet year (2007).

This year's record - breaking wet season coupled with significant rainfall from Hurricane Irma created extremely high water levels in the Central Everglades.

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.

Oh, and don't look now, but Southern California is currently on fire has had an extremely dry start to its wet season, raising the specter of a return to drought just a year after one of the worst droughts in state history.

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.

Despite the early fire season in the northeast, much of the spring and summer was wet and daytime high temperatures weren't extremely warm, so it may not have «felt» like a record year.