Sentences with phrase «heavy downpours»

Maine has its occurrences of hurricanes, tropical storms, hail and heavy downpours.

Also frequent heavy downpours over a short period of time can saturate the ground and overwhelm sewage and drainage systems, and this can cause flooding anywhere in the state.

Strong winds, heavy downpours and hurricanes are not uncommon occurrences in South Carolina.

Frequently, this is caused by the heavy downpours that accompany a tropical storm.

Furious winds, heavy downpours and tornados are not uncommon occurrences in Indiana.

In the spring and summer, heavy downpours can lead to hazardous roadways and limited visibility.

While Flagstaff may not experience horrendous snow storms or ice damage, it does experience heavy downpours during monsoonal season among several other natural disasters.

Student housing and Florida senior citizen centers have fallen victim to the winds and heavy downpours of hurricanes and bad weather, so there is no reason why your rental property could do any better.

If cities do not start acting now, many of the world's vulnerable cities and populations will endure significant impacts from heat waves, heavy downpours and coastal flooding due to sea level rise.

And cities everywhere face risks including more frequent and more extreme heat waves and increasing heavy downpours.

As for heavy downpours, by the end of the century intense rainfall events that now statistically occur once every 20 years will happen once every 5 years.

Forests, farms, and cities will face troublesome new pests, heat waves, heavy downpours, and increased flooding.

Therefore, intense and heavy downpours would be interspersed with longer relatively dry periods.

A strong national preparedness initiative for dealing with climate impacts could require oil, fuel, and chemical storage tanks to be built differently to be able to withstand the heavy downpours that accompanied Harvey.

One would be to get the state to routinely incorporate projections of increased sea levels and heavy downpours when building big infrastructure projects.

According to the 2009 National Climate Assessment, heavy downpours have increased in frequency and intensity during the last 50 years.

Infrastructure across the U.S. is being adversely affected by phenomena associated with climate change, including sea level rise, storm surge, heavy downpours, and extreme heat... Floods along the nation's rivers, inside cities, and on lakes following heavy downpours, prolonged rains, and rapid melting of snowpack are damaging infrastructure in towns and cities, farmlands, and a variety of other places across the nation.

Those effects include more rainfall that occurs in heavy downpours, meaning less is absorbed into the earth and more becomes runoff; more rain and less snowfall in the mountains, which means less melting snow to feed rivers in the spring and summer; and higher temperatures causing more evaporation.

«The impacts of climate change — including an increase in prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures, more heavy downpours, an increase in wildfires, more severe droughts, permafrost thawing, ocean acidification and sea - level rise — are already affecting communities, natural resources, ecosystems, economies and public health across the Nation,» reads an executive order signed this morning by President Obama.

Water quality is also diminishing in many areas, particularly due to sediment and contaminant concentrations after heavy downpours.

Certain types of extreme weather events with links to climate change have become more frequent and / or intense, including prolonged periods of heat, heavy downpours, and, in some regions, floods and droughts.

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

Increases in ocean and freshwater temperatures, frost - free days, and heavy downpours have all been documented.

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.

While severe flooding is already an issue in the region — in 2008, floods caused 24 deaths and $ 8 billion in agricultural losses — likely increases in precipitation in winter and spring and more heavy downpours mean it is expected to become more commonplace.

• «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.»

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.

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.

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.

Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, heavy downpours, floods, and other extreme weather events are projected to become more frequent and intense, with serious consequences for human health and well - being.

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.

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.

Extreme heat, heavy downpours, and flooding will affect infrastructure, health, agriculture, forestry, transportation, air and water quality, and more.

Heavy downpours are increasing nationally, especially over the last three to five decades, with the largest increases in the Midwest and Northeast.

Heavy downpours are increasing nationally, especially over the last three to five decades.

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

That is the clear message from a new report that finds climate change is likely to bring more record - breaking temperatures, heat waves, and heavy downpours.

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

The Northeast now sees 31 percent more heavy downpours than it did in 1950.

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.

Climate scientists predict that the recent trends toward more heavy downpours will continue throughout this century.

Extreme heavy downpours are consistent with what climate scientists expect in a warming world.

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.

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

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.

It also describes a glaring problem, and opportunity, in how federal agencies are locked in to static standards for girding against weather - related hazards even as climate forecasts foresee more rain coming in heavy downpours:

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?

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.

Among these physical changes are increases in heavy downpours, rising temperature and sea level, rapidly retreating glaciers, thawing permafrost, lengthening growing seasons, lengthening ice - free seasons in the oceans and on lakes and rivers, earlier snowmelt and alterations in river flows.

Below you can read an excerpt from Masters» latest post, in which he cites a study that I wrote about in 2006 that detected a long - term shift in the monsoon toward more rain coming in heavy downpours.