Sentences with phrase «including heatwave»

From increasingly frequent and severe types of extreme events that include heatwaves, coastal flooding and heavier downpours, the costs of climate change are becoming tangible throughout the country.

Climate change makes a variety of extreme weather events more likely and more intense, including heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and superstorms.

Not exact matches

Wider areas, including the Netherlands, Germany, northern Italy and central Europe, were also hit by a severe heatwave in June that affected crop production.

These impacts include increased flooding, heatwaves, water shortages, new pests and diseases and other risks.

Several western cities set new all - time June temperature records, due in part to an intense heatwave the second half of the month, including Boise, Idaho where the temperature soared to 110 °F.

Harsh weather like heatwaves and cold snaps, which cause your stamina to deplete faster, add another level of strategy to an already wonderfully challenging game, and a level system that includes select - able perks allows you to customize and adapt your character to your play style.

All of the same content offered in the recent closed beta is available this time around including Team Deathmatch and Warpath game modes playable on the multiplayer maps Heatwave and Infernal.

She has also made numerous significant additions to the High Museum of Art's respected collection, including Paul Frankl's Dressing Table, Marcel Wander's Crochet Chair, Joris Laarman's Heatwave Radiator, Jaime Hayon's Green Chicken, and Molly Hatch's two - story installation Physic Garden.

A remark to the question of anthropogenic influence of the Moscow heatwave: All discussions and the papers I have seen until now (including Dole et al. and the paper discussed here) have concentrated on the influence of the increase of mean temperature change.

[12] Extreme and unprecedented heatwaves have occurred in recent years worldwide, including Europe in 2003, Russia in 2010 and several regions in the south and central US in 2011 and 2012.

My own guesstimate starts with events that have either been formally attributed (in a probabilistic way) to climate change — an example is the 2003 European heatwave — or which have a demonstrable link to physical processes consistent with a climate influence — examples include Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, both of which were observed to rapidly intensify over unusually warm waters.

Researchers, including Australian climate scientist Dr Sarah Perkins - Kirkpatrick, are trying to standardise the definitions of «heatwaves» and «hot days» and create a framework that allows for more in - depth studies of these events.

Detail for the UK included deterministic forecasts for heatwave conditions from ~ 22/23 July, cooler and wetter through the middle third of August, and a very warm signal from ~ 2 Sept lasting most of the month.

DarkMath @ 45, the highest values in the US Heatwave Index are found in (in decreasing order of intensity) 1936, 1934, 1931 and 1930, with the values of 1936 and 1934 in particular, being significantly greater than any other including recent years:

Mr Joshi's post includes a graph showing that the average output of SE Australia's wind farms, which all feed into the same power grid, generated an average of around 800MW for the week of the heatwaves.

The stark report states that climate change has already increased the risk of severe heatwaves and other extreme weather and warns of worse to come, including food shortages and violent conflicts.

The heatwave in 2003 has led to the development of heat health - watch warning systems in several European countries including France (Pascal et al., 2006), Spain (Simón et al., 2005), Portugal (Nogueira, 2005), Italy (Michelozzi et al., 2005), the UK (NHS, 2006) and Hungary (Kosatsky and Menne, 2005).

Examples include events like heatwaves or maintenance outages.

«This includes record numbers and record intensity of hurricanes and typhoons, record widespread heavy rains and flooding — think Houston, Louisiana, the Carolinas (Hurricane Matthew) and now California — record drought, heatwaves and wild fires, and increasing inundations in coastal regions from rising sea level.»

Primary adaptation measures to heatwaves include the development of health early warning systems and preventive emergency plans (Garssen et al., 2005; Nogueira et al., 2005; Pirard et al., 2005).

Of course, heatwaves have happened in the past, including before humans started altering the climate.

The 2010 Russia heatwave had devastating impacts, including loss of life, wildfire and drought.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released its provisional Statement on the State of the Climate this week, estimating that 2017 is likely to be one of the warmest years for global average surface temperature, with many high - impact events including catastrophic hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and droughts.

One group warns that, if humans go on burning fossil fuels at an ever increasing rate, heatwave temperatures could reach an intolerable 55 °C in many parts of the globe, including some parts of continental Europe.

Action that addresses the interlinked challenges of disaster risk, sustainable development and climate change is a core priority given that 90 % of recorded major disasters caused by natural hazards from 1995 to 2015 were linked to climate and weather including floods, storms, heatwaves and droughts.

The BoM's Special Climate Statement includes a breakdown of each state's heatwave including 7 January, and the BoM's area - averaged estimate can be compared with the actual average maximum of all stations:

More on Climate Ride «Biggest Loser» Winner Joins TreeHugger For Climate Ride Bike Trip Climate Awareness Bike Trip Climate Ride Includes Beer and Redwood Forest 300 - Mile Brita Climate Ride Aims to Inspire, Educate Brita Climate Ride Benefit Held During NYC Heatwave More on Biking Rush Hour Looks Better By Bike - VIDEO 300 Riders Cover 31,000 Miles in the Name of Affordable Housing Want to Save a Tree?

More on Climate Ride Climate Awareness Bike Trip Climate Ride Includes Beer and Redwood Forest 300 - Mile Brita Climate Ride Aims to Inspire, Educate Brita Climate Ride Benefit Held During NYC Heatwave More on Biking Rush Hour Looks Better By Bike - VIDEO 300 Riders Cover 31,000 Miles in the Name of Affordable Housing Want to Save a Tree?

Three - sigma events were, by definition, rare and include the French heatwaves, Texas drought and Russian fires.

a The global mean surface temperature impact is also a proxy for the many additional climate impacts that occur alongside global mean temperature change, including changes in sea - level, rainfall, heatwaves, etc