Sentences with phrase «intense rain on»

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.

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Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were forced off the road because they could not see in front of them.

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

But on the first morning of the storm, when the rain and flooding were most intense, I did actually laugh out loud when I learned via Facebook that the Houston Chronicle had chosen that particular day to publish a school food opinion piece I'd submitted a few weeks before.

But on the first morning of the storm, when the rain and flooding were most intense, I did actually laugh out loud when I learned... [Continue reading]

Hurricane Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were forced off the road.

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.

The Indian monsoon is a period of intense rainfall that more than a billion people rely on to bring rains to farmland.

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.

Her group went on an intense five - week tour of the whole country, from the Andes to the Amazon rain forest, and took three weeks of classes while living with Venezuelan families.

And it's the same reason why, locked in an intense ship - to - ship battle that was more Master & Commander than Pirates of the Caribbean, sailing through the wind, rain, and a booming thunderstorm overhead, that a member of your crew might stand on the bow and play a merry tune on any one of this game's musical instruments, rather than lend a hand that could swing the tide of battle: because you can, and it's bloody brilliant.

The first thorough federal review of research on how global warming may affect extreme climate events in North America forecasts more drenching rains, parching droughts (especially in the Southwest), intense heat waves and stronger hurricanes if long - lived greenhouse gases continue building in the atmosphere.

It is a broad storm front with intense pockets of rain that is calculated to happen on average once every thousand years.

On January 3 and 4, the first of two back - to - back atmospheric river storms (wide paths of moisture in the atmosphere composed of condensed water vapor), brought heavy rain and mountain snow to central California, ahead of an even more intense round of heavy precipitation brought by a powerful, long - duration atmospheric river storm pulling warm and moist air to California from the subtropical and equatorial region southeast of Hawaii.

I remember those days as full of fun, inspiration, ideas and intense experiences in nature: walking together to Schumacher college in Dartington for lectures in the gentle Devon rain, intense discussions with various eco-luminaries around Helena Norberg - Hodges's kitchen table, visiting farm project volunteers in remote Ladakhi villages, reading Joanna Macy, and hiking on Dartmoor in the snow.

In continental fluvial and coastal sections, changes in siliciclastic depositional facies reflect on increased frequency of high - energy events (e.g., extreme flooding), possibly from monsoon - like seasonal rains, and / or from unusually intense and / or sustained extra-tropical storms.