Sentences with phrase «increase rain and snow»

Particles blown into the air in Africa and Asia cross the Pacific and increase rain and snow in the Sunshine State

Not exact matches

The sun will be out in full force briefly Friday morning, before clouds increase and rain and snow showers kick off this afternoon.

The excessive heat increased the rate of water loss by evaporation and caused precipitation to shift from snow to rain, leaving a meager snowpack and parched reservoirs.

Rain falling on snow in fall or winter months can melt the snow and produce particularly sudden increases in stream flow.

More worryingly, the actual increase in rain, snow and sleet were larger than predicted by the computer models.

Climate change can affect mountain streams in two major ways: By raising the overall temperature, increasing evapotranspiration, and by shifting the precipitation from snow to rain.

Seasonal forecasters expect California (and the southern portion of the country) to have increased odds for more rain and snow for the rest of the winter, as was the case during the blockbuster El Niño of 1997 - 1998, which saw numerous floods and mudslides from deluges that hit the state.

Increases in snow and rain falling onto the ocean contribute to the freshening of the ocean surface in the high latitudes of the Southern Ocean.

The increase in rain and snow will be on average about 10 - 20 percent, Meehl said.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

Since more rain and snow can't be ordered, it's difficult to increase electricity production from the hydroelectric plants.

With more rain instead of snow, fall and winter flood risk is expected to increase in most river basins.

The increases in acidity appear to result from acid fallout in rain and snow.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

In weather systems, convergence of increased water vapor leads to more intense precipitation and the risk of heavy rain and snow events, but may also lead to reductions in duration and / or frequency of rain events, given that total amounts do not change much.

The desire for control over fickle patterns of rain or snow has only increased in a world wracked by climate change — and spawned technologically wild ideas for how people can bend even the most powerful storms to their will.

Alpine runoff throughout the Pacific Northwest is increasing in the winter (Nov. - March), as more frequent rain on snow events enhance melting and reduce snow storage.

A declining ratio indicates that greater percentages of precipitation occur as rain instead of snow and / or that melt of winter snowpack is increasing.

Warmer temperatures evaporate critically important snowpack, convert snow to rain, and dry out soils, which increases the frequency and severity of arid conditions in California.

There has also been an inch increase in rain and snow for the 1900s from 1900 to 2000.

AGW climate scientists seem to ignore that while the earth's surface may be warming, our atmosphere above 10,000 ft. above MSL is a refrigerator that can take water vapor scavenged from the vast oceans on earth (which are also a formidable heat sink), lift it to cold zones in the atmosphere by convective physical processes, chill it (removing vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) or freeze it, (removing even more vast amounts of heat from the atmosphere) drop it on land and oceans as rain, sleet or snow, moisturizing and cooling the soil, cooling the oceans and building polar ice caps and even more importantly, increasing the albedo of the earth, with a critical negative feedback determining how much of the sun's energy is reflected back into space, changing the moment of inertia of the earth by removing water mass from equatorial latitudes and transporting this water vapor mass to the poles, reducing the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and speeding up its spin rate, etc..

If warming continues, and snow increases during winters, locking up more moisture regionally until spring or summer floods release the reservoir with more energy and intensity in those snow - pack zones (while former recipients of rain go wanting in drought) than in prior regimes?

Warmer temperatures would alter the rain / snow ratio during the cold season, further increasing the chance for more extreme winter floods and summer droughts [15].

Rain, snow melt, and reservoir releases increase river water flow.

If we were to increase the level of water vapor in the atmosphere and leave everything else unchanged, the water vapor would fairly quickly condense out as rain, snow, frost or dew and there would be no lasting effect on global temperatures Carbon dioxide comes second after water vapor and its concentration in the atmosphere is heavily affected by burning of fossil fuels.

A recent report from Climate Central shows that there will be an increase in the continuing trend of more rain and less snow during US winters, which will impact the Pacific Northwest, California and other parts of the United States as well.

Those who do come to the Northwest will be faced with an unpleasant reality, she adds, reciting a list of problems expected to strike the region before the turn of the century: regional temperature increases between 5.5 and 9.1 degrees Fahrenheit; drier summers making the Northwest's forests more susceptible to fire; declining snowpack, as more precipitation falls as rain instead of snow at higher elevations, straining regional water supplies and increasing the risk of flooding downstream.

Studies have shown that heavy precipitation events — both rain and snow — have been increasing in frequency and severity in the Northeast region in the past few decades.

It is also changing rain and snow patterns and increasing the risk of intense storms and droughts.

Dept. of Energy: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: As climate changes, more rain and snow could increase U.S. crop damage

As temperatures rise, the likelihood of precipitation falling as rain rather than snow increases, especially in autumn and spring at the beginning and end of the snow season, and in areas where temperatures are near freezing.

Because precipitation comes mainly from weather systems that feed on the water vapour stored in the atmosphere, this has generally increased precipitation intensity and the risk of heavy rain and snow events.

Cold temperatures, darkening days of wind, rain, and, in the winter, snow, ever increasing energy costs, are the messages that resonate with the electorate and our hope for a better, rationale, and humane future.

The retreat has been most noticeable at high elevations, driven in large part by warming temperatures contributing directly to melting and indirectly to more precipitation falling as rain rather than snow, in turn increasing the rate at which the glaciers move and increasing the size of glacial lakes, both decreasing ice cover.

-- First we increase the greenhouse gases — then that causes warming in the atmosphere and oceans — as the oceans warm up, they evaporate more H2O — more moisture in the air means more precipitation (rain, snow)-- the southern hemisphere is essentially lots of water and a really big ice cube in the middle called Antarctica — land ice is different than sea ice — climate models indicated that more snowfall would cause increases in the frozen H2O — climate models indicated that there would be initial increases in sea ice extent — observations confirm the indications and expectations that precipitation is increasing, calving rates are accelerating and sea ice extent is increasing.

Turbulence alterations induced in land rematerialing will infact keep suspended water vapor and so increased mass is transported, which will result in heavier rain or SNOW in those places that GRAVITY can overcome the intrinsic kinetic energy «lift».

In the US, the amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest one percent of storms has increased nationally over the last half century — with the largest increases in the Northeast, Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast.

The Third National Climate Assessment shows that some regions of the country have seen as much as a 71 percent increase in the amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest storms between 1958 and 2012.

The combination of the warming with increased greenhouse gases and the increased precipitation falling as rain rather than snow is a double whammy for the region.

As the Earth warms, the amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest one percent of storms has risen nearly 20 percent on average in the United States — almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation between 1958 and 2007.

The increase in rain and snow will be on average about 10 - 20 percent, Meehl said.

Further, the rate of carbon release from mires is mainly influenced by high water flow; carbon export, for example, increases substantially when rains arrive in the fall and in response to melting snow during spring.

In addition, inclement weather conditions such as rain, sleet and snow can increase your chances of being involved in a crash.

Rain, snow, and ice create slippage instead of rolling traction, causing skidding, loss of directional steering, and increased stopping distances.

Marine weather statements bring attention to significant rapidly changing conditions on the water including increase in winds, thunderstorms, development of dense fog and even snow squalls or strong and gusty rain showers.