Sentences with phrase «large rain storm»

A great time to compare this is when a high speed wind storm comes through or a large rain storm that causes flooding through the location.

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The fresh hit comes five days after the monster storm slammed onshore as a Category Four hurricane, pummeling the US Gulf Coast with torrential rains that turned neighborhoods into lakes in America's fourth largest city, Houston.

The worst storm to hit the U.S. since 2004 and by some estimates the largest rain - storm in U.S. history, Harvey has had a profound impact on the nation's largest oil - producing and oil - refining region.

And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for days and unload more than 40 inches (100 centimeters) of rain on cities, including dangerously flood - prone Houston, the nation's fourth - largest.

Because even if the predictions don't turn out to be correct — if hurricanes don't grow larger and carry more rain — if there's sea level rise due to climate change, these storms become more devastating.

The Category 1 storm will whip up large waves and life - threatening rip currents off Long Island and New Jersey from Tuesday into Wednesday, while pummeling the city with rain and fierce winds, the National Weather Service predicted.

The radars provide estimates of rain and snow rates, accurate identification of the regions where rain transitions to snow during winter storms, and detection of large hail in summer thunderstorms.

Even if the storm veers east in the Atlantic Ocean, an unusually large atmospheric pressure gradient near the storm is destined to push strong winds onshore for many hours, bringing an extended period of high surf and heavy rain, forecasters say.

On the other hand, a shallow rain garden will need a lot of surface area to provide enough water storage to filtrate runoff from larger storms.

It's a great way to wait out a rain storm on your way to wherever and I still buy paper if the experience warrants it... Large format / coffee table presentations, etc..

Heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey has encumbered the fourth - largest city in the US, and new concerns are mounting from ongoing rain and flood damage.

To help cope with the monsoon rains there is a vast open storm drain system in which live a large colony of feral cats in the dry season.

Most rain comes from large storms that last for several days.

The rise in elevation is a large factor that then leads to stalling storms in the area and the rain falls for long time periods.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

How human influence affected other types of events such as droughts, heavy rain events, and storms was less clear, indicating that natural variability likely played a much larger role in these extremes.

In the US, the amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest one percent of storms has increased nationally over the last half century — with the largest increases in the Northeast, Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast.

From the beginning, there were serious concerns within the scientific community (both research and operational) about the viability of passive microwave measurements of ocean surface vector winds, especially in storms and in other areas of rain and large amounts of cloud liquid water.

In another recent study, NCAR researcher Jeffrey Yin used computer climate simulations to show that large - scale rain and snow storms known as frontal storms are moving polewards, driven also by global warming.

Because of this these towns are more exposed to large storms and even hurricanes that work their way up the eastern seaboard bringing with them damaging wind and rain.