Sentences with phrase «intense rainfall»

According to him, in the past 30 years — with a couple of exceptions — we've had mostly mild winters, and we're seeing more intense rainfall events.

So to, are the more intense rainfall events likely to result from climate change — and note that these can occur in the same places as droughts.

The fact remains that there is 4 percent more water vapor — and associated additional moist energy — available both to power individual storms and to produce intense rainfall from them.

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

The storm fits the current pattern experienced in the warming world in which higher temperatures are driving more intense rainfall events.

«In reality, we also experience much more intense rainfalls in less time.

For instance, Dr Westra says, the devastating Queensland floods of 2011 superficially appeared to be caused by intense rainfall, but the flood wouldn't have had been so large if the catchments hadn't already been waterlogged from a very wet spring.

The other big cause is climate change, which has led to fewer rainy days this monsoon, but more intense rainfall on those days.

They include utility managers who want more information about how to handle runoff from intense rainfall fueled by global temperature increases, reservoir managers trying to adjust to drought conditions, and ski resorts assessing snowpack and other climate - related changes.

Intense rainfall followed by long dry periods is wreaking havoc with pitches.

Research conducted so far suggests that MTR mining can contribute to greater flooding during intense rainfall events, but some studies actually found less severe flooding in watersheds with mining.

In regions where intense rainfall is expected to increase, pollutants (pesticides, organic matter, heavy metals, etc.) will be increasingly washed from soils to water bodies (Fisher, 2000; Boorman, 2003b; Environment Canada, 2004).

The plan sets out many options to protect against storm surge, sea level rise and intense rainfall like that which swamped Houston during Hurricane Harvey.

On the other side of the spectrum, intense rainfall led to severe flooding in South Asia and in countries across South and Central America.

As for heavy downpours, by the end of the century intense rainfall events that now statistically occur once every 20 years will happen once every 5 years.

Houston also saw intense rainfall, with 11 inches falling overnight in some areas on Monday.

The frequency and intensity of extreme events within the monsoon are important, as periods of intense rainfall can lead to floods, while periods of extreme dryness can lead to crop failures, particularly at certain growth states when crops are particularly vulnerable.

High soil moisture values in eastern Spain in the ERA - Interim record come from a few very intense rainfall events and do not necessarily reflect the local situation for soil moisture during this period.

They are typically initiated by intense rainfall and / or rapid snowmelt.

«The combination of more intense rainfall and the spreading of heavy rainfall over larger areas means that we will face a higher flood risk than previously predicted,» said the study team, led by Andreas Prein (National Center for Atmospheric Research).

He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

«This was very, very intense rainfall, when you've got 5in in 24 hours, even some of the best defences are going to be overwhelmed,» Mr Benn told BBC News 24.

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

Sebastian said focusing on 100 - year events is also problematic because short, intense rainfall events that don't meet the 100 - year threshold can still cause serious flooding.

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

That signal is translating into all sorts of events — droughts, intense rainfall, more intense tropical cyclone activity, crop stress, heat waves, and so on.

Surprisingly, the researchers found there was a strengthening of the monsoon during global cooling, instead of the intense rainfall normally associated with warmer climates.

The another most important climate variation is El Niño — Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, which impact the global oceanic and atmospheric circulations which thereby produce droughts, floods and intense rainfall in certain regions.

However, lingering near the coast where it has been, Hurricane Harvey maintained a healthy energy supply and has been able to continue picking up moisture and dumping it over land through sustained and intense rainfall.

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.

He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

Even though the sea is certainly warm enough for swimming at this time of year, the intense rainfall might make the sunshine less enjoyable.

Although the sea is warm enough to go swimming at this time of year, the limited sunshine hours and intense rainfall might make it a bit difficult to spend a day at the beach.

He noted that, across Australia, climate change is fueling drought, heat waves, wildfires and intense rainfall.

As described in the previous blogpost, the ITCZ is a band of intense rainfall that circles the Earth (Fig. 1), moving north and south across the equator over the course of a year following the seasonal cycle of solar insolation.

With a rapidly changing climate, warmer weather, more intense rainfall, and pollution caused by human activity, we are perpetuating optimal conditions for harmful algal blooms.

Second, warmer air can hold more moisture, producing more intense rainfall.

The intense rainfall was due to a complicated interplay between the intensity of the hurricane, its path, and the fact that it stalled over the coast with part of it still over the water so the storm dynamics could access the heat and moisture of the Gulf.

Scientists agree that the effects of climate change will include more sporadic and irregular precipitation, with longer periods of drought separated by more intense rainfall; and increasing average temperatures.

While urban encroachment on the river floodplains definitely made the damage and death toll worse, the intense rainfall events and the glacier retreat were perhaps made worse by global warming.