Sentences with phrase «include more rainfall»

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.

Not exact matches

According to National Centers for Environmental Information and NOAA, more than 30 inches of rainfall fell on 6.9 million people while 1.25 million experienced over 45 inches and 11,000 people (including many in Southeast Texas) had over 50 inches based on seven - day rainfall totals ending Aug. 31.

In addition to the massaging nozzles, this shower panel also includes a rainfall overhead shower and a more powerful hand held one.

But the new study accounts for more climate variables, not just temperature, that could come into play, including atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and rainfall patterns.

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There are more features including but not limited to the keyless ignition, a rearview camera, and front wipers with sensors that adjust their speed according to the amount of rainfall.

SINGAPORE, March 25 (Reuters)-- Global warming is more than a third to blame for a major drop in rainfall that includes a decade - long drought in Australia and a lengthy dry spell in the United States, a scientist [Peter Baines] said on Wednesday.

Scientists agree that the effects of climate change will include more sporadic and irregular precipitation, with longer periods of drought separated by more intense rainfall; and increasing average temperatures.

In June 2008, a record flood event exceeded the once - in -500-year flood level by more than 5 feet, causing $ 5 to $ 6 billion in damages from flooding, or more than $ 40,000 per resident of the city of Cedar Rapids.85 The flood inundated much of the downtown, damaging more than 4,000 structures, including 80 % of government offices, and displacing 25,000 people.86 The record flood at Cedar Rapids was the result of low reservoir capacity and extreme rainfall on soil already saturated from unusually wet conditions.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

The dramatic decline in Arctic sea ice and snow is one of the most profound signs of global warming and has coincided with «a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters,» according to the conference organizers, who are posting updates under the #arctic17 hashtag on Twitter.

These profound changes to the Arctic system have coincided with a period of ostensibly more frequent events of extreme weather across the mid-latitudes, including extreme heat and rainfall events and recent severe winters.

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.

For example, responses to recent historical climate variability and change in four locations in southern Africa demonstrated that people were highly aware of changes in the climate, including longer dry seasons and more uncertain rainfall, and were adjusting to change through collective and individual actions that included both short - term coping through switching crops and long - term adaptations such as planting trees, and commercialising and diversifying livelihoods (Thomas and Twyman, 2005; Thomas et al., 2005).

The region locks up more than 100 billion tons of carbon — more than 11 years» worth of total greenhouse gas emissions from human activities; plays an important role in global weather circulation patterns, including delivering rainfall to Central America, the United States, and southern South America; supports perhaps a third of terrestrial biodiversity; and is home to the bulk of the world's remaining indigenous people still living in traditional ways.

[7][8] A warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, feeding more precipitation into all storms including hurricanes, significantly amplifying extreme rainfall and increasing the risk of flooding.

These include potential flood damages from more extreme rainfall in most parts of Australia and New Zealand; constraints on water resources from reducing rainfall in southern Australia; increased health risks and infrastructure damages from heat waves in Australia; and, increased economic losses, risks to human life and ecosystem damage from wildfires in southern Australia and many parts of New Zealand.

Several major watersheds are predicted to have more days of extreme rainfall by the middle of the century, including the Pacific Northwest, the Ohio River Basin, the Great Lakes, and parts of the Great River and Missouri River Basin.

The virtually certain impacts include increasing temperatures, more frequent extreme heat events, changes in the distribution of rainfall, rising seas, and the oceans becoming more acidic.

Warmer air holds more moisture, feeding more precipitation from all storms including hurricanes, significantly amplifying extreme rainfall and increasing the risk of flooding.

This would mean an eastward shift of extratropical rainfall teleconnections, the phenomenon responsible for weather changes in North America, including more rain in the West.