Sentences with phrase «heavier precipitation»

High levels of water vapor in the atmosphere in turn create conditions more favorable for heavier precipitation in the form of intense rain and snow storms.

Hertsgaard lays out other projected and potential impacts: harsher heat waves; stronger storms; more disease and pestilence; increased drought and less frequent but more intense heavier precipitation events; more wildfires; lower crop yields; and mass extinctions.

This translates into heavier precipitation in the form of more intense rain or snow, simply because more moisture is available to storms.

Increasing temperature and heavier precipitation events, along with sea level rise, are projected by the report to accelerate in the coming decades, increasing risks for the people, economy and infrastructure of New York City.

Hence, even as the potential for heavier precipitation results from increased water vapour amounts, the duration and frequency of events may be curtailed, as it takes longer to recharge the atmosphere with water vapour.

This is especially true of record heat and heavier precipitation events.

In a comment which could have been directed at several European countries, he said: «It is probably a good idea to invest in infrastructure that helps in dealing with heavier precipitation, in particular if you are not yet used to those events.»

Heavier precipitation caused episodic collapses of coastal Highway 1 at Devil's Side at the south end of Pacifica.

However, it also leads to heavier precipitation in the storms that form.

As that moisture climbs the western side of the Sierras, the upwards motion causes additional cooling and condensation and leads to the heavier precipitation.

It is a reminder that in a warming world, there is also more evaporation to drive storms, which corresponds to heavier precipitation.

But we know that in nature, stronger vertical motions carry heavier precipitation loads,» said lead researcher Dr. Mikhail Ovchinnikov, atmospheric scientist at PNNL.

In 2012, a controversial study challenged previously accepted ideas about the mechanisms through which climate change will affect our weather: Warmer temperatures will result in more heat waves, hotter summers will bring worse droughts, the warmer atmosphere will hold more water, resulting in heavier precipitation and flooding.

Heavier precipitation is a signature of climate change.

This is because a warmer atmosphere evaporates more water from the ground, making it available for heavier precipitation within individual storms.

One thing is already clear: A warmer global atmosphere currently holds about 3 to 5 percent more water vapor than it did at the beginning of the 20th century, and that can contribute to heavier precipitation.

Lower latitudes will likely experience more heat waves, heavier precipitation, and stronger (but perhaps less frequent) hurricanes and typhoons.

According to the Climate Science Special Report released on Nov. 2, heavy precipitation events are becoming more frequent and intense in most regions of the world.

The drought may ease this winter, with warm Pacific El Niño waters expected to trigger heavy precipitation in parts of the West.

«Of course, weather is naturally chaotic, and extremes are a normal part of our highly variable UK climate, but globally there has recently been an increase in the incidence of high temperature and heavy precipitation extremes.

The flooding continued the heavy precipitation trend of 2010, which was the wettest year on record.

Another advantage to a shared sewer is that such systems are usually built to withstand heavy loads and can better accommodate periods of heavy precipitation or storm surges that might overwhelm smaller, poorly conceived or maintained home - based septic tanks, which are by virtue of their size and the laws of physics more prone to overflow and send contaminants into nearby surface and ground waters.

Another aspect is dealing with heavy precipitation and the inundation of heavy rain that can accompany a storm like Harvey.

The Midwest has seen a 37 percent increase in the amount of rain falling in heavy precipitation events since the late 1950s, the second - highest increase in the U.S. over that period.

Hundreds have occurred in the park, yet 15 % didn't have any obvious trigger: no earthquakes, no heavy precipitation, no freeze - thaw cycles that can cause water trapped in a fissure to freeze, expand, and gradually wedge open a crack.

«We expect the first heavy precipitation events with a clear global warming signal will appear during winters in Russia, Canada and northern Europe over the next 10 - 30 years,» said co-author Dr Ed Hawkins from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading, UK.

Extremely heavy precipitation was projected to become even more extreme in a warmer world.

Gilbert and colleagues with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are collaborating with Panama City to use tomography to evaluate the health and property risks of Panama's urban trees that may be decayed and vulnerable to snapping in high winds and heavy precipitation.

Not only that, the researchers say, in five of the 17 port cities the link between storm surge and heavy precipitation has grown stronger in recent decades.

Higher temperatures, more heavy precipitation, and drought.

Still, he says, «One of the clearest signals we see is that an increase in global temperatures leads to an increase in extreme or heavy precipitation events.»

«To simply tell a water resource manager that, «Oh, yeah, climate change is making heavy precipitation events more likely,» is not particularly helpful information,» she said.

«We expect a widespread increase in heavy precipitation due to greenhouse gas warming leading to a moister atmosphere,» explains climatologist Gabriele Hegerl of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Over Christmas and New Year's Day, heavy precipitation fell over the U.S. Southeast, particularly in Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Alabama, which experienced flash flooding.

The panel finds that humans have already contributed to an increase in the frequency and duration of heat waves and an intensification of heavy precipitation events.

And more water vapor worldwide is related to the atmosphere being warmer — we have about 7 percent more water vapor in the atmosphere now than we did in the 1950s, which is directly linked to the increase in heavy precipitation events.

The number of heavy precipitation events will continue to increase in the assessment area, and impacts from flooding and soil erosion may also become more damaging.

Although Everest is about 1,500 miles to the north and not at sea level, these storms can greatly impact the mountain, bringing heavy precipitation.

«Heavy precipitation speeds carbon exchange in tropics.»

A new report released Friday by the National Academy of Sciences has found that such extreme event attribution studies can be done reliably for certain types of weather extremes, including heavy precipitation.

Flooding both from coastal surge and heavy precipitation has been catastrophic from Harvey and Irma.

This expands our nationwide - averaged heavy precipitation analysis from earlier this year, complementing the 2017 Climate Science

As the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report notes, models predict that increasing temperature ought to cause greater precipitation extremes in both directions — both drought and flooding, though there are likely more areas of heavy precipitation.

With flooding in parts of the Mississippi Valley and a strong Pacific storm coming into the Northwest, we examined the trend in the number of days each year with heavy precipitation at 244 individual sites in the U.S..

However, in the Southern Plains, the heavy precipitation helped to end multi-year drought conditions.

Also heavy precipitation has been associated with the lows, and higher elevations have seen heavy snowfalls as a result — especially in the mountain regions and Alps.

It focused on instances of unusual heat or heavy precipitation.

Why It Matters: On average, atmospheric rivers hit the western United States only a few times each winter, but they transport significant amounts of moisture that converges in the mountains producing heavy precipitation.

A storm Nov 1 - 3 brought heavy precipitation to central California.

Obviously the heaviest precipitation and strongest updrafts are on the northern side of the storm evidenced by the radar signature at the surface and strong in - cloud echoes extending to or through the tropopause.»