Sentences with phrase «intense extreme rainfall»

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Even at the time of the last IPCC report in 2007, the trends for extreme heat, droughts and intense rainfall were already clearly upward.

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

For example, the extreme drought that gripped Indonesia during summer and fall (leading to an intense wildfire season) was caused by a dearth of rainfall linked to El Niño and higher temperatures linked to climate change, one study in the report found.

Such extreme rainfall events are likely to get even more intense as our climate warms.

Instead of a single global climate emergency, a state of emergency just goes on as floods, fires, extreme storms, intense rainfall are pushed higher and higher by climate heating.

«The recent study suggests that the extreme rainfall component of Hurricane Harvey was made 15 % more intense due to climate change, which is broadly in agreement with the atmospheric theory that has been developed in this area.

We are already seeing more intense storms and more heatwaves and higher extreme rainfall events, all at damaging levels so it can only get worse over the next 30 years imho.

Projections suggest an increase in extreme weather events, such as heavy rainfall, more intense storms and heat - waves.

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

«Intense rainfall, flash floods, extreme winds and a life - threatening storm surge will severely affect communities over a wide area.»

Changes in extreme episodes included positive trends in warm nights, and a positive tendency for intense rainfall events and consecutive dry days.

In concert with the results for increased extremes of intense precipitation, even if the wind strength of storms in a future climate did not change, there would be an increase in extreme rainfall intensity.

The assessment of future weather extremes finds the role of human influence is «detectable» in summer heatwaves and in intense rainfall.