Sentences with phrase «heaviest of downpours»

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In the Dodgers» half of the fifth with two runners on base, none out and Brooklyn leading, 2 to 1, a still heavier downpour drove everybody to cover.

Some were heavy and emphatic defeats but the bright side of this very heavy downpour is that Rovers now approach some very winnable fixtures in the month of November that could not only bolster their poor league tally of point but also lift the spirit of the Blackburn camp.

Heavy downpour in the Brong Ahafo regional capital has stalled activities and preparations ahead of the NDC manifesto launch.

The Abuja - Okene highway was on Thursday flooded due to the heavy downpour that happened in the early hours of the day.

Residents of Owerri the Imo State capital have been displaced following a heavy downpour that lasted over 12 hours, leaving the city flooded.

The Assembly member for the Barekuma Electoral Area Hon. Kwaku Appiah Kubi Saalia, noted that many cocoa farmers in the surrounding communities become stranded anytime there is heavy downpour of rain in an attempt to bring their commodities to Barekekuma, to be transported the harbor in Takoradi.

A section of the building's perimeter fencing reportedly collapsed after two hours of heavy downpour, pushing in muddy waters that inundated vehicles, files, computers and card reading machines, according to PREMIUM TIMES.

«So that the next time we have a heavy downpour, the creek, rather than rising up, will actually collect the water and hold the water for the period of the weather event and stop it from flooding businesses and homes,» Cuomo said.

The heavy downpour that was experienced in Otta area of Ogun state on Sunday has left four communities and their entire road networks submerged in flood...

Low rate of hurricane landfalls may not last Researchers say heavier downpours are already occurring in the United States.

Wallace plans to continue exploring the topic to see whether certain categories of rain, like heavy downpours, are more susceptible to the phases of the moon, and whether the frequency of rainstorms shows any lunar connection.

Hotter temperatures, an increase in heavy downpours and rising sea levels are among the effects of «unequivocal» warming, that analysis found.

In heavy downpours, the rain gauge in the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) under - reports the amount of rain.

Heavy downpours can overwhelm New York's antiquated 19th - century sewer systems, the miles of pipes and tunnels that carry away wastewater and, when overtaxed, divert billions of gallons of raw sewage and contaminated urban runoff into the rivers, lakes and the ocean.

Criss published research in 2015 suggesting that the Army Corps of Engineers is underestimating flood levels in the Midwest by failing to fully incorporate changes like new levees, expanding development and heavier downpours.

In general, it is expected that heavy downpours will increase as the world warms due to the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, because a warmer atmosphere contains more moisture.

In general, climate scientists expect heavy downpours to increase over the U.S. and elsewhere, as a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, making more of it available to fall as rain.

The relationship between warmer air and the greater amounts of moisture it contains is one of the most well - accepted tenets of climate science, and underpins one of the more solid projections, that warming will lead to more heavy downpours in general across the globe.

Strong but scattered thunderstorms with heavy downpours are possible for much of Northern and central North Carolina on Monday, May 21, 2018, according to the National Weather Service in Raleigh.

Even in occasional heavy downpours — hell, even in a brief smattering of hail — the Lusso kept me pinned to the seat back and working hard for breath in the turns.

It has a sunroof, but I do not use it often, because it sometimes during a heavy downpour of rain will leak.

The rainy season runs from November to April, which normally takes the form of brief heavy downpours over all - out rain.

Here in San Francisco we don't get a lot of heavy downpours, so whenever we do, I can't help but grab the camera and run outside as soon as the rain stops.

October and November are the months with the heaviest downpours in this zone of Costa Rica.

June marks the beginning of the wet season, which signals high humidity and heavy downpours become common, plus there is a risk of hurricanes.

More rain fell on April 11th, with a 40 % chance of rain predicted for the morning and a 55 % chance of heavy downpours predicted for the afternoon and evening.

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The colors build and subside across the heavy downpours of paint, which often erupt in thick patches of splashes and splatters, or dissipate into exposed bits of canvas.»

This rapid urbanization and development changes the face of the land, increasing flood risk at a time when, at least for the eastern half of the state, the risk of heavy downpours is also on the rise.

Given that studies of past climate patterns have found evidence of super-deluges in the Northeast, and that scientists have observed a century - long trend toward more rainfall coming in heavy downpours in the world's temperate zones (a pattern matching what's expected in a greenhouse - heated world), the logic in planning for the worst case in designing everything from a dam to a basement to a rural road is growing ever stronger.

Among the clearest outcomes of global warming are hotter heat waves and having more of a season's rain come in heavy downpours.

«The amount of rain falling in the heaviest downpours has increased approximately 20 percent on average in the past century, and this trend is very likely to continue, with the largest increases in the wettest places.»

This finding is consistent with the expected effect of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations and with other observed evidence of a changing climate such as reductions in Arctic sea ice extent, melting permafrost, rising sea levels, and increases in heavy downpours and heat waves.

Indeed, the same growth in the percentage of heavy downpours has been noted across the US — is this information that your would prefer that those who plan and maintain drainage systems not have?

I would note that since growing cities also enhance the urban heat island effect, not all of the increase in heavy downpours can be attributed to climate change.

The United States has experienced increases in heat waves, wildfires, heavy downpours, and in some regions, droughts, all of which are disrupting our lives.

Our analysis examines the heaviest downpours — the days where total precipitation exceeded the top 1 percent of all rain and snow days — at over 3,000 rain gauges distributed across the country over the period 1950 - 2014.

Consistent with earlier research, six of the top 10 states with the biggest increases in number of days with heavy downpours are in the Northeast, including Rhode Island, Maine, and New Hampshire, which have seen the number of heavy rain events in the last decade increase by at least 50 percent compared to the 1950s.

An example of this phenomenon is Boston, where the local trend is flat but at the state level, Massachusetts has seen a relatively steady increase in heavy downpours since 1950.

The city's climate — like that of other communities across the Midwest — has changed measurably over the past half - century.2 Heavy downpours now occur about twice as often as they did a century ago.3

With more - frequent heavy downpours comes greater risk of flooding.4 Missouri has already suffered two record - breaking floods in the past two decades.

Given the evidence base and uncertainties, confidence is high that heavy downpours are increasing in most regions of the U.S., with especially large increases in the Midwest and Northeast.

Other changes flow from this warming, including melting of snow and ice, rising sea level, and increases in some types of extreme weather, such as extreme heat and heavy downpours.

At the very tail end of the event, colder air aloft will move in, destabilizing the atmosphere over interior NorCal and perhaps resulting in a line of two of extremely heavy convective downpours enhanced by the existing subtropical moisture (not unlike what happened during the last event in the Sierra Nevada foothills).

Regardless, record - breaking high temperatures, droughts, wildfires, and heavy downpours are all signs of new extreme weather patterns that we can expect to see more of in a warming world, both domestically and abroad.

Urbanization creates large areas of impervious surfaces (such as roads, pavement, parking lots, and buildings) that increased immediate runoff, and heavy downpours can exceed the capacity of storm drains and cause urban flooding.

Other risks could be compounded by climate change, with projections of more heavy downpours in a warming climate increasing the odds of the city's vital Catskills reservoirs being muddied more frequently — a condition that could require the construction of billions of dollars in filtration equipment that the city had avoided through environmental cleanups around the watersheds feeding into the system.

• «Average autumn precipitation has increased by 30 percent for the region since 1901; heavy downpours have increased in many parts of the region, and the percentage of the region experiencing moderate to severe drought has risen over the past three decades.»

The widespread trend of increasing heavy downpours is expected to continue, with precipitation becoming less frequent but more intense.13, 14,15,16 The patterns of the projected changes of precipitation do not contain the spatial details that characterize observed precipitation, especially in mountainous terrain, because the projections are averages from multiple models and because the effective resolution of global climate models is roughly 100 - 200 miles.

Heat waves, heavy downpours, and sea level rise pose growing challenges to many aspects of life in the Northeast.