Sentences with phrase «heavy snowmelt»

South Dakota is primed for flooding each spring, with heavy snowmelt, thunderstorms and a swollen Missouri River.

Flood insurance will cover damage from heavy snowmelts and rainwater runoffs.

Not exact matches

But when we experience heavy rains or snowmelts, the sanitary sewer system becomes overwhelmed with clean stormwater, which causes overflows into the Mohawk River.

But heavy rains or snowmelts can cause stormwater to overwhelm the system and result in overflows into the Mohawk River.

Guy Steffy, 24, found himself rowing along Riverside Drive in Wayne, New Jersey, after heavy rains and snowmelt caused the Passaic River to overflow last March.

Floods are the number one natural disaster in the U.S. Within the last five years, all 50 states have experienced flooding from a variety of causes including hurricanes, snowmelts, heavy rains and altered geography that changed natural runoff paths.

In fact, within the last five years, all 50 states have experienced flooding from a variety of causes including, tropical storm surges, heavy rains, snowmelts and alterations in geography that change the path of runoffs.

These include increases in heavy downpours, rising temperature and sea level, rapidly retreating glaciers, thawing permafrost, lengthening growing seasons, lengthening ice - free seasons in the ocean and on lakes and rivers, earlier snowmelt, and alterations in river flows.

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.

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

Likely aggravating factors included snowmelt from the warm temperatures of the event and already - saturated soils from heavy rains several weeks earlier.

Late snowmelt over the region in late April / early May, followed by heavy rains in late May / early June, resulted in extremely high water levels in the Danube, Elbe, and Rhine, with coastal flooding in early / middle June there (49).

You know this last year, snowmelt never stopped in the Cascades because of very heavy winter snowfall.

Sometimes, heavy rains, coupled with snowmelts, can cause the Ohio River to overflow its banks and flood this area, as many residents remember happening in 2011.

With snowmelts and heavy rains in the spring, the water levels in Lake Michigan and area rivers can rise and lead to flood damage in area homes.

Floods are the number one natural disaster in the U.S. Within the last five years, all 50 states have experienced flooding from a variety of causes including hurricanes, snowmelts, heavy rains and altered geography that changed natural runoff paths.

The frequency of heavy snows and snowmelt, and storms can cause rivers and streams to overflow quickly.