Sentences with phrase «extremes existed in the past»

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While strong seasonal hurricanes have devastated many of the Caribbean and Bahamian islands this year, geologic studies on several of these islands illustrate that more extreme conditions existed in the past.

Fig. 6 illustrates that +3 σ anomalies practically did not exist in 1951 — 1980, but in the past several years these extreme anomalies have covered of the order of 10 % of the land area.