Sentences with phrase «intense rain»

When storms occur, this added moisture can fuel heavier precipitation in the form of more intense rain or snow.

This pattern of intense rain and snow storms and periods of drought is becoming the new normal in our everyday weather as levels of heat - trapping gases in the atmosphere continue to rise.

Heat waves, droughts, and intense rain events have increased in frequency during the last 50 years, and human - induced global warming more likely than not contributed to the trend.

They were in less agreement about how intense rain or snow will be when it does fall, although there is general consensus among models that the most extreme precipitation will become more frequent.

This translates into heavier precipitation in the form of more intense rain or snow, simply because more moisture is available to storms.

We've had several days of intense rain and wind here on the south coast.

«We're going to be see more of these periods of intense droughts followed by intense rain,» which is the situation predicted for East Africa this year.

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

Contrary to what you might expect, more intense rain doesn't necessarily mean wetter soils.

The most likely results from this heat transfer (during a positive PDO) will be warmer atmospheric temperatures, more floods, more intense rain storms and thus more infrastructure damage in areas where appropriate infrastructure hardening has not been implemented.

Islands closer to the Equator such as Kiribati and Tuvalu had intense rain causing flooding, as well as higher sea levels due to warmer waters and weaker trade winds.

«Other changes in climate - driven aspects of the water cycle, such as intense rain events, less snow or shorter periods of ice cover on lakes, may have a much larger effect on groundwater, stream flow and lake levels.»

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Hurricane Harvey plodded toward a wet exit Friday, leaving more misery in its wake with intense rain and flooding predicted far north as Kentucky.

All the freshly exposed glacial till is being mobilized by increasingly intense rain storms.

The cold, strong storm from the Gulf of Alaska combined with warmer, moister, subtropical air over L.A., which caused hail around the region and heavy, intense rain on the south L.A. County coast.

A little more than a year earlier, in June 2013, intense rain battered Uttaranchal, causing landslides and exacerbating glacier melt, leaving thousands dead.

The dust, soot and additional particulates can produce intense rain, snowfall and severe storms, while further reducing rain in drier areas.

Flooding usually occurs after short but very intense rains.

Contrary to what you might expect, more intense rain doesn't necessarily mean wetter or healthier soils.

Intense rain in Detroit in August 2014 killed two, caused an estimated $ 1.1 billion of damage, and affected 118,000 homes and businesses.

«Recently, we've been getting fewer rain events but more intense rain events.»

If the planetary temperatures rise beyond the 1.5 °C to 2 °C limit proposed by the Paris agreement signed by 197 nations in 2015, then climate change could arrive in Mali, Niger and Chad in the shape of intense rains of the kind identified as seasonal monsoons.

While the eye of Hurricane Maria has left Puerto Rico, powerful winds and intense rains are still pounding the island and further damaging its already crippled infrastructure.

This means more rain or snow overall, and more intense rain or snowfall on average

«Here in the Corn Belt, it is predicted that climate change will bring more intense rains, longer dry periods and higher heat, and a number of other impacts,» said Arbuckle.

The West Coast's rocky, steep terrain, combined with periods of intense rain and drought, makes it intrinsically different from the coastline along the Mid-Atlantic, which receives steadier rain and slopes more shallowly to the ocean, he says.

Some supercell thunderstorms have a descending core of intense rain and hail wrapping around the west side of the storm.

Instead, climate models project more intense rains and tropical cyclones, although cyclones are expected to happen less frequently.

Studies have suggested that intense rain can not provide the lubrication needed for this to happen, so Tormey concludes that glacier melt must have been to blame.

While flooding is a normal occurrence in Texas, examining the frequency of heavy downpours in Texas indicates that these periods of more intense rain have become more frequent in recent decades.

The recurring wave pattern of intense rain and thunderstorms, followed by a dry phase as the force moves across the cooler Pacific Ocean occurs every 30 - 60 days, giving this atmospheric wave its unique stamp on the climate.

«Higher sea surface temperatures are continually reinforced by the extra sub-surface heat, and hence the ocean influences surface weather and climate especially through more intense rains,» the study said.

Both women live in the East Village and frequently take their dogs to East River Park, where the canines play in the soggy fields and puddles of still water left by the intense rains, the story noted.

These sacks kept our camera gear dry even through intense rain.

It is very rare for a tropical cyclone to make landfall from the south in the state, although the remnants have sometimes brought intense rain to the region as the storms break up and move into the southwest U.S.

Forza Motorsport 7 is designed with an attention to detail; you'll notice the small specks of dirt on your car's hood as you drive through a dynamic weather system of intense rains and puddles that could cause you to hydroplane.

Some extremes will likely increase (number of days above 90 F, intense rain, possibly droughts etc.).

Projected changes in climate, including an increase of droughts and less frequent, more intense rain events, imply that this phenomenon may make peat bogs into larger sources of methylmercury to downstream water resources and ecosystems.

More intense rains and hurricanes and rising sea levels will lead to more severe flooding and potential loss of property and life.

«Higher sea surface temperatures are continually reinforced by the extra sub-surface heat, and hence the ocean influences surface weather and climate especially through more intense rains,» the study said.

Many places have seen changes in rainfall, resulting in more floods, droughts, or intense rain, as well as more frequent and severe heat waves.

Climate Change Could Alter Them A recent study led by Christine Shields of the National Center for Atmospheric Research suggests that climate change could push atmospheric rivers in the Pacific toward the equator and bring more intense rains to southern California.

Higher spatial resolution is essential to discriminate convective versus stratoform features and to measure the intense rain that often comes from small rain cells.

Global warming is causing more intense rain and snowstorms in the United States, and making extreme events such as the January 2016 snow storm that crippled most of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast more likely.

High levels of water vapor in the atmosphere in turn create conditions more favorable for heavier precipitation in the form of intense rain and snow storms.