Sentences with phrase «intense rains in»

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.

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

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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.

First off, yes: There's consensus that the science of climate change predicts that in a warming world, hurricanes will become more intense, carry more rain, and cause worse coastal flooding linked in part to sea level rise.

Along Interstate 45 leaving Galveston, the rain was so intense that drivers stopped under bridges because they could not see in front of them.

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.

Birch trees not performing as expected That means a shorter period for snow to accumulate in winter and a bigger gap between snowmelt and summer rains, two factors that work together to produce more intense dry spells.

That means more fuel for clouds and rain, which results in more intense downpours.

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.

In Indonesia, meanwhile, the annual monsoon rains are becoming more intense over shorter periods, often knocking the flowers off the cacao trees, thereby preventing pod formation.

Overall, consistent with the findings of Huntington (2006), the evidence for increases in both severe droughts and heavy rains (Section 3.8.2) in many regions of the world makes it likely that hydrologic conditions have become more intense.

Future precipitation trends in both areas aren't as clear, though there are indications that rain will come in more intense, episodic bursts, leaving more time between them for trees to experience drought stress.

I saw wild monkeys in Granada which has a rain - forest — and eleven types of bananas, all bursting with intense flavor.

Jaguar bills the F - Type as an all - weather supercar, as good in snow (thanks to its all - wheel drive and Snow drive mode setting) as in rain or intense sun.

Thought it's in an intense rivalry with Portland, OR, for the title of «Hipster Capital of the World,» Seattle is more than just skinny jeans, rain, and Microsoft.

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.

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.

Residents and emergency workers in Houston are struggling to cope with intense flooding and rains brought by Hurricane Harvey.

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.

Abundant rains in the summer, mixed with intense sunshine, regularly take temperatures beyond 30 °C (86 °F).

The natural scarcity of water (6 month dry season) has caused wildlife to evolve and thrive in an environment with fewer nutrients than other tropical forests while also maintaining the ability endure six months of intense tropical rain.

The weather conditions in Salamanca are quite intense with frozen winter, hot summer, and rain.

When rain does fall in Cancun during the hurricane season, it's very intense and is over as quickly as it begun.

During these months, we get more rain than in the winter season, but the rain is often just a short but intense downpour, and then the sun comes out again.

This isn't anything new, in truth, as Quantic Dream offered some similarly intense moments back in Heavy Rain.

Combat also employs the use of Quick Time Events, but these are not as intense as say the ones in Heavy Rain.

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.

Andrews notes, by contrast, that the High Line's physical design offers visitors a chance to develop awareness of the body in relation to extreme natural weather conditions including intense winds, rain, snow, and sun.

We know that precipitation intensity has been increasing (the amount of rain that falls in the most intense events) across the northern hemisphere — this was clear in the literature even before the Pall et al paper.

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 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.

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.

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.

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«Rains have become more intense and fall in a shorter period,» and warmer temperatures are leading to faster melting of the Himalayan glaciers, compounding the risks of flooding.

Extreme drought grips the South and Midwest; in Memphis, which suffered intense flooding earlier this year, just one - hundredth of an inch of rain has fallen this month.

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.

Which forms the basis for the IPCC claim of high climate sensitivity (mean value of 3.2 C), resulting in significant global warming (up to 6.4 C warming by 2100), «extreme high sea levels», increased «heat waves», increased «heavy rains» and floods, increased «droughts», increased «intense tropical cyclones» — which, in turn, lead to crop failures, disappearance of glaciers now supplying drinking water to millions, increased vector borne diseases, etc. (for short, potentially catastrophic AGW — or «CAGW»).

Extreme rain events, meanwhile, are projected to become more intense — as are periods of severe drought, with the report predicting drought periods would increase over southern Australia, and possibly elsewhere in the country, with a greater frequency of severe droughts.

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.

The frequency of floods in small river basins is very likely to increase, but that may not be true of larger watersheds because intense rain is usually confined to more limited areas.

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

But in the last few years, coffee yields have plummeted here and in many of Latin America's other premier coffee regions as a result of rising temperatures and more intense and unpredictable rains, phenomena that many scientists link partly to global warming.

Extra heat of this kind would also tend to enhance precipitation extremes — more rain when it does rain and far more intense drought in areas affected by heat and atmospheric ridging.

Unfortunately when rain falls in short, intense bursts it does not have time to soak into the ground.

This is the regime of the monsoon (rain - bearing winds), which is associated with the heating of the Asian landmass in summer and its intense cooling in winter.

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.

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

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