Sentences with phrase «flash floods on»

This is what the devastating flash floods on the Little Missouri and Caddo rivers in southwestern Arkansas looked like on stream gauges:

«It was essentially a winter flash flood on a continental - scale river,» Criss said.

A helicopter flies above the rugged terrain along the banks of the East Verde River during a search and rescue operation for victims of a flash flood on Sunday in Payson, Ariz..

A recent flash flood on 16 - 17 June, affected over 50,000 people in the mountain state of Uttarakhand, while it is estimated that over 5000 [continue reading...]

Not exact matches

Prosecco Blamed for Italy Flood Deaths The tragic deaths of four people swept away by flash floods in northern Italy have been blamed by critics on the regions burgeoning Prosecco industry accused of over-planting and damaging the lands ability to deal with rainwater...

wolf's «magic map» at cnn is no match for snow's «swingometer» on bbc... and frankly i'm getting a bit of a headache from all the flashing images and moving text they have flooding the screen (though in terms of election night broadcasting embarrassment, the holograms are still no match for jeremy vine's antics earlier this year...)

On Friday afternoon, the National Weather Service reported that the Guajataca Dam in the northwest is «failing,» causing flash flooding.

O'Keefe said the flood in the village shows the limits of flash flood forecasting, which relies on Doppler radar; rainfall measurements from ground stations, like the New York State Mesonet, a network of more than 120 weather stations across the state; and reports from ground observers.

«NWS research efforts are focused on doing a better job of assimilating our radar data with our observational data to improve our flash flood warning service.»

The flash flooding brought on by the heavy rains of June 27 and 28 devastated many communities across Central New York.

Jerolmack and his co-author, Colin Phillips of the University of Minnesota, placed radio - tracking tags on stones in a river prone to flash floods.

A national flood warning system based on radar, established two years ago by Britain's Meteorological Office, is failing to predict major downpours and flash floods.

Mudslides and flash floods that raged through Southern California mountains following heavy rains killed one man, damaged homes and cut off a foothill community, leaving rescuers clearing blocked roads and residents cleaning up on Monday.

Perhaps methane flows through after flash floods, like water in a desert on Earth.

Instead they will be able to issue tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash - flood warnings based on highly accurate model forecasts produced well in advance, giving the public 30 to 60 minutes to take safety precautions.

More than 3 billion people in the world depend on rice as their primary food, and nearly one - fourth of the world's crop is grown in rain - fed lowland plots prone to seasonal and sustained flash floods.

Vulnerable Haiti is braced for flash floods and violent winds from extremely dangerous Hurricane Matthew as the powerful storm remains on a path aiming at the hemisphere's poorest country.

The result, Malin added, could resemble the sort of mudflows seen on Earth after torrential rains or flash floods.

Add to your check list of reality the fact that Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate (see RC threads on tropical glacier melt); enough so that flash flooding, from overflowing glacier - melt lakes, is a serious and life - threatening concern of downstream populations.

This season's 20 brand spankin» new episodes will flash images across your retinas and flood your brains with an overabundance of mind - melting pop culture spoofery that will most likely cause your head to explode and leave a stain on the couch that will never come out (sorry Mom)!

Hence, on putting his hand on Cowles» shoulder, the viewer gets a flash - frame of Abbie Cornish with red blood seeming to flood from a spot above her forehead.

In that time, Gilliam has faced a Job - like series of setbacks on the film, from flash floods to sick actors to dead actors to some «Portuguese chap» who...

But the city is also located on the southern edge of America's «tornado alley,» and has the dubious honor of being in a central Texas area known as «flash flood alley.»

And it's little wonder why: Today's consumer is bombarded with more stimulus to shop than ever before with flash sales, retailers putting deals on social media platforms, and sales and coupons flooding email inboxes all day and all night long.

Sometimes the arid conditions make the ground too hard to soak up much water, so flash floods can wreak havoc on the area.

Alaska Air Stops at Nothing to Find Lost Cat, Pregnant Dog saves girl from drowning in Philippines flash floods tragedy, Screaming Baby Squirrel Caught After 40 Foot Fall, Cat survives four - hour, 200 - mile journey sitting on engine of car.

Driss and Khalid had bickered endlessly over trivial matters; gritty desert winds had pushed the temperature at times to more than 100 degrees; Berber tribals had taken us for insurgents and threatened us; and a flash flood — the summer bane, often lethal, of the High Atlas — had trapped us for a night on a mountain ledge.

My mind wanders to thoughts of the 2008 flash flood at this campground when everyone had to be evacuated and people were stuck on the other side of the raging, muddy river.

A fierce rain had descended on the island, leaving the trail susceptible to flash floods and mud slides.

Stay safe: Residents of Dompu, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), struggle to reach higher ground as flash floods hit areas across the regency on March 5.

In the ongoing flood of games, one that we've neglected to report on is the port of the very popular Bloons flash game.

The Marfa crowd was unfazed, so bottles of wine were salvaged, glasses were shared, cheese and sausage plate were annihilated while this flash flood reigned on.

As Texans cleaned up, searched for those still missing, examined why so many died despite early warnings and prepared for more flooding rains, I explored aspects of the disaster on the Texas Standard public radio show, focusing on the clash of political and meteorological forces creating big dangers in «Flash Flood Alley.»

The research focus was more on drought risk than flash floods, but in developing the model of the river and surrounding basin, Curran developed an intimate sense of the dynamics of the system.

Turning up your AC, learning how to get out of your car quickly in case of a flash flood; stacking up on canned goods when crops fail; getting to a shelter quickly when that tornado strikes in places where it's never struck before?

These include CO2 concentrations (which generally mediate a positive influence), temperature increases (beneficial to some crops in some regions and harmful elsewhere), increases in droughts, flash floods, weeds, and insect infestations (all harmful), as well as drains on the availability of soil nitrogen needed for the protein content of food crops.

The warnings, from two studies and the UK's PRECIS regional climate modelling system, are unanimous on one conclusion: the Himalayan region, which includes the two most recent sufferers of devastating flash floods, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand, is receiving more rainfall than ever before and it's only getting worse.

In July, thunderstorms dumped more than six inches of rain on Elicott City, Maryland in roughly two hours, causing flash floods that upended cars and lives.

Of these, 4,615 were due to flash floods and floods, according to the International Disaster Database Centre for research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which have cost the country an estimated USD 396 million in economic losses.

Droughts, heat waves, cloudbursts, flash floods are all on the rise, especially in India.

Only a few days ago New Yorkers received a flash flood alert on their cell phones through the emergency broadcast...

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On June 21, the Pakistan Meteorological Department's monsoon forecast cautioned that urban and flash flooding could occur from July to September in the north parts of the country.

Can we quantify the expected change in flash flood rainfall per 1 degC of warming based on such observations?

More help will be needed in the near future, as the Washington Post and Guardian have reported that Hurricane Maria caused devastating damage to Puerto Rico on Wednesday, with flash flooding and 100 percent of residents without power.

Fortunately, for example, you're unlikely to encounter a blowout on the highway or a flash flood during your practice sessions, but it's important your child knows how to prepare for whatever may happen to them on the road.

The reality is that all Sheboygan residents are going to want to read up on flood insurance costs, since Sheboygan tends to get some pretty serious flash floods.

This is particularly true in the spring, when the winter's heavy snows begin to melt and can not be absorbed by the still - frozen ground, and in the summer, when heavy rainfall on already saturated ground leads to flash - flooding.

People in large patches of the Midwest and the South had to contend with flash floods and hail the size of softballs as the storm that has been described as «hell on earth» pushed through their communities.

You know, like the damage in Charlotte from Hurricane Hugo in 1989, or the Blizzard of 1993 that dropped 50 inches on Mount Mitchell in three days, or the tropical storms that hit every few years, or the more than 50 days of thunderstorms per year that carry hail, strong winds, and flash floods.