Sentences with phrase «intense rain storms»

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

Not exact matches

But this year's intense Atlantic storm season had another element tying its biggest events together: a monstrous, and sometimes deadly, amount of rain.

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]

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

«Even though it's raining more overall, each storm is less intense and drops less water,» Singer said.

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.

As Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put it in a email not long ago: «One has to recognize that the human toll from hurricanes results from the most intense wind and rain events; the vast majority of storms do little or no damage.

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.

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

The article and a subsequent one did examine the claim that a warming climate made storms more intense and might be responsible for the heavy rain that caused devastating floods in Texas.

Hurricane Harvey had intense wind and rain because unique wind patterns prevented the storm from moving quickly out of the region.

But this year's intense Atlantic storm season had another element tying its biggest events together: a monstrous, and sometimes deadly, amount of rain.

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.

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

He says, «In our own cities, the storm run - off systems are not geared to intense, heavy rains.

Storms have already become more intense because of global warming, leading to heavier rain.

A hurricane is violent storm comprised of intense winds and, heavy rain, potentially causing a storm surge, floods, coastal erosion or landslides.

This will result in storms being more intense — but the rain will tend to fall prematurely — more quickly where the most water is evaporated — which is over sea.

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

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.

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.

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.

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