Sentences with phrase «increased snow in winter»

Warming leads to increased evaporation and precipitation, which falls as increased snow in winter.

Not exact matches

Other weather related problems like dead batteries and cars stuck in snow banks have also increased this winter.

Extreme weather phenomena — winters in which snowfall is sometimes quite heavy, and others with little snow, will increase in the future.

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

Winter temperatures are also expected to increase in the area, leading to changes in snow cover and soil frost.

Oregon has only one station above 5,000 feet, but it too reported a strong increase in rain vs snow as winter precipitation.

Risk for snow - induced forest damage will increase in eastern and northern Finland while winters become milder

In locations that are accustomed to getting snow during the winter, the total amount of snow each year is already decreasing as the planet warms from increasing greenhouse gases; the percentage of precipitation falling as snow is on the decline, with more of it falling as rain.

One reason is because an increasing percentage of winter precipitation is falling as rain instead of snow in many locations.

Many automatic cars have a «winter mode» which intentionally increases the gear car starts rolling in to reduce torque and prevent getting stuck in snow / ice.

I enjoy the increased height that this vehicle provides, and it is great for driving in different weather conditions, especially in the winter snow.

The very increase in absolute humidity that reinforced the warming trend through infrared absorption might lead to increased cloudiness (or indeed to increased precipitation and winter snow cover) and thus, through reflection of insolation, to a considerable buffering of the warming trend.

Will less ice and snow in the Arctic during winter increase, decrease or be about the same radiation loss as years with thick multiyear ice?

Wili: As ice volume decreases, the fraction of volume which is new ice increases, and hence the year to year variability in new ice becomes a larger fraction of the total ice volume variability, so I don't think the smoothed downward slope will stay as smooth, i.e. you should expect bigger surprises to the upside on a given winter if it is cold and has heavy snow fall.

Re 9 wili — I know of a paper suggesting, as I recall, that enhanced «backradiation» (downward radiation reaching the surface emitted by the air / clouds) contributed more to Arctic amplification specifically in the cold part of the year (just to be clear, backradiation should generally increase with any warming (aside from greenhouse feedbacks) and more so with a warming due to an increase in the greenhouse effect (including feedbacks like water vapor and, if positive, clouds, though regional changes in water vapor and clouds can go against the global trend); otherwise it was always my understanding that the albedo feedback was key (while sea ice decreases so far have been more a summer phenomenon (when it would be warmer to begin with), the heat capacity of the sea prevents much temperature response, but there is a greater build up of heat from the albedo feedback, and this is released in the cold part of the year when ice forms later or would have formed or would have been thicker; the seasonal effect of reduced winter snow cover decreasing at those latitudes which still recieve sunlight in the winter would not be so delayed).

Preliminary results of an analysis of rising temperature effects on three major river systems in the western United States — the Columbia, the Sacramento, and the Colorado — indicate that the winter snow pack in the mountains feeding them will be dramatically reduced and that winter rainfall and flooding will increase.

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

At higher elevations, an increase in winter snow accumulation has partially offset the melt.

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.

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.

MILANKOVITCH CYCLES overall favor N.H. cooling and an increase in snow cover over N.H high latitudes during the N.H summers due to the fact that perihelion occurs during the N.H. winter (highly favorable for increase summer snow cover), obliquity is 23.44 degrees which is at least neutral for an increase summer N.H. snow cover, while eccentricity of the earth's orbit is currently at 0.0167 which is still circular enough to favor reduced summertime solar insolation in the N.H. and thus promote more snow cover.

During the winter, you get a beneficial reflection from the snow on the ground to the south of the collectors which provides a «free» increase in collected solar energy.

Whether it's a killer winter in South America, increased snow cover globally, record Arctic sea ice recovery, recovering glaciers in the Alps, record high sea ice extent in Antarctica, extreme cold in southeast Europe, or 5 consecutive colder than normal European winters, just to name a few, the ominous signs of global cooling are compounding rapidly.

** The UHI effect there was due to continual snow removal during the winter at French airports where all of the «official» thermometers are located (whereas, all of the surrounding countryside remained blanketed in snow and showed no increase in winter temperatures).

Cohen and co-workers set out their hypothesis as to what might be causing this flat trend in boreal DJF temperatures in a separate study, also published this year, entitled Arctic warming, increasing snow cover and widespread boreal winter cooling:

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?

More than one - sixth of the world's population live in glacier - or snowmelt - fed river basins and will be affected by the seasonal shift in streamflow, an increase in the ratio of winter to annual flows, and possibly the reduction in low flows caused by decreased glacier extent or snow water storage (high confidence)[3.4.1, 3.4.3].

Inundation by Sea Floods due to increased prectpitation Drought due to reduced precitptation Pestilence of every conceiveable variety Failure of crops Disappearnce of teh North Pole Cultivation of Greenland Snow being unknown in UK Terminal failure of European Winter Sports Industry More pestielnce 50 million climate refugees Tsunamis (yep..

Bouraoui et al. (2004) showed, for southern Finland, that the observed increase in precipitation and temperature was responsible for a decrease in snow cover and increase in winter runoff, which resulted in an increase in modelled suspended sediment loads.

Warmer winters and less snow cover in recent years have contributed to increased deer populations62 that degrade forest understory vegetation.82

How is global warming responsible for record freezing winters with mountains of snow and two decades without any increase in warming?

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.

It has been said the winter temperatures went up in the years 1975 - 2005 (despite the somewhat increased snow cover), while summer temperatures did not.

The study found that, on average, temperatures during winter and spring had increased during the study period and the amount of the snow - water equivalent (or the water in the snowpack) decreased by 25 percent.

Or Arctic sea ice loss could lead to an increase of snow on high - latitude land, which in turn impacts the jet stream resulting in cold Eurasian and North American winters.

Reduced energy demand for heating; increased demand for cooling; declining air quality in cities; reduced disruption to transport due to snow, ice; effects on winter tourism

Risk for snow - induced forest damage will increase in eastern and northern Finland while winters become milder

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pashan, Pune, in a research paper published in Climate Dynamics last May, had dwelt upon the increase in frequency of winter precipitation (snow or rain) owing to the western disturbances (WDs).

In some regions where winter precipitation is projected to increase, the increased snowfall can more than make up for the shorter snow season and yield increased snow accumulation.

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.

Therefore, we suggest that a significant portion of the wintertime temperature trend is driven by dynamical interactions between October Eurasian snow cover, which has increased over the last two decades, and the large - scale NH extratropical circulation in the late autumn and winter.

CL at # 45 wrote: «As ice volume decreases, the fraction of volume which is new ice increases, and hence the year to year variability in new ice becomes a larger fraction of the total ice volume variability, so I don't think the smoothed downward slope will stay as smooth, i.e. you should expect bigger surprises to the upside on a given winter if it is cold and has heavy snow fall.»

Alarmists have eventually evolved to crediting warming with producing greater snowfall, because of increased moisture but the snow events in recent years have usually occurred in colder winters with high snow water equivalent ratios in frigid arctic air.

Critique 1) I have no idea about any cleansing, homogenisation or aggregation performed on this data prior to its presentation by Rutgers 2) Snow extent is only 1 part of the issue, thickness and mass would need to be considered for a full picture 3) I haven't taken care to provide exactly similar sample sizes, however the F and t methods do not require it 4) I haven't taken care to ensure that the same number of winter periods are present in each sample batch; this would increase the risk of a false positive and would have required further investigation if a weak indication of significance had been detected.

One reason is because an increasing percentage of winter precipitation is falling as rain instead of snow in many locations.

Hypothesis that needs testing: A negative feedback mechanism has been triggered to an increased variability in «winter» (dec to feb) snow output, howsever caused....

With this being the «warmest winter on record» per the warmers and this now doccumented record snow extent, there is certainly enough observational evidence to further research my theory that the rise of man made CO2 in the atmosphere has increased the freezing point of water by about 5degrees F.

«In previous tests, we found snow melt runoff was positively correlated with average air temperatures [increases] throughout the winter, but correlations don't always necessarily mean that one thing causes another,» Dudley told LiveScience.