Sentences with phrase «larger than rain»

Cisterns are often larger than rain barrels and can be located underground, at ground level, or on an elevated stand.

Not exact matches

When Hurricane Harvey blew into Texas last weekend, it dumped more than 30 inches of rain, flooding Houston and large areas of southeastern Texas, while leaving thousands homeless or without power.

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.

Texas officials warned of «catastrophic» and potentially historic flooding in Houston, the nation's fourth - largest city, as Harvey continued to pummel the state, dropping more than two feet of rain and causing dire, and deadly, flash floods.

The large amount of rain in recent weeks has hampered more than just my lawn mowing efforts.

Rain shower heads usually have a larger diameter than traditional heads to provide a larger coverage area.

The researchers built large shelters over plots and irrigated them with rainwater so they received either more or less rain than the 100 - year regional average.

NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory captures video of superheated plasma loops far larger than Earth as they rain down on solar surface

Imagine a world where the average daytime temperature is -179 °C, and torrential rains of liquid methane fall from the skies, forming vast but shallow pools that cover an area larger than the Great Lakes.

More worryingly, the actual increase in rain, snow and sleet were larger than predicted by the computer models.

One such valley, Margaritifer Sinus, would have received less rain than some other areas due to the Tharsis bulge causing drier air to flow over that region, yet shows evidence of large amounts of water having flowed there.

A Climate Central report found that at least 58 percent of more than 2,000 weather stations reported a trend toward a smaller percentage of all winter precipitation falling as rain instead of snow, with the Northwest and Upper Midwest registering the largest decreases.

Last of the Amazon In the time it takes to read this article, an area of Brazil's rain forest larger than 200 football fields will have been destroyed.

That suggests to me that something is happening here that's way bigger than the largely made - up tiff between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner (D) about whether Houston should have been evacuated before Harvey dumped trillions of gallons of rain on the nation's fourth - largest city.

By the way, if you're looking for rain boot alternative to the ubiquitous Hunters, especially if you have larger - than - average calves, I can highly recommend Kamik boots.

They do seem to run a bit larger than expected but that's fine since you usually wear something under rain gear.

I traveled to London and rural Scotland last summer and went to the theater, museums, the Edinburgh Festival / Fringe and lots of rough hiking in the highlands out of a suitcase just larger than a carry - on (had to bring boots and specialized rain gear, so no carry - on this time).

«The film will offer the viewer a unique look into two larger - than - life figures who served as the catalysts for one of the most defining moments in our history, the end of the Cold War,» said Scott Free prexy Ridley Scott («Black Rain»), who serves as one of the producers.

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The optional all - wheel drive not only improves traction in snow and rain, but also helps with dry - road cornering, which is important because the Traverse is larger and less agile than competitors such as the Nissan Pathfinder.

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Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary is a great place for hiking in the rain forest and is less than an hour drive away Cockscomb boasts the world's largest concentration of jaguars, pumas, ocelots and margays and myriad of other animals.

Due to the mountainous interiors of many of the larger islands, the windward sides of these slopes tend to see more rain than the leeward sides.

The Corcovado National Park is the largest tract of virgin rain forest in Costa Rica and covers more than half of the Osa Peninsula.

Her monumental wall - relief, Acid Rain, 2001, is larger - than life (9 x 16 feet) yet incredibly intricate.

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.

It is reasonably likely that SO2 climate engineering would have unacceptable costs because many more people would be precipitation losers than winners, since a very large fraction of people are farmers in India and China who rely on rain.

Note that the statistics of rain frequency inherently depend on the size of the area being monitored, since it rains more often somewhere within a large area than somewhere within a much smaller area.

Rain (especially after a long dry spell) and spring thaw are periods when larger than average amounts of N2O are emitted, Goodroad et al. (1984); Hutchinson (1995).

Large droplets in rain clouds scattering light much more effectively than small droplets — it's why thunderclouds are very dark underneath and why Venus has high albedo.

Even if you have a bad day during a visit, say you get rained on and everyone gets soaked, the total benefit of that ritual for the family becomes larger than just individual, short - term benefits.

The retreat has been most noticeable at high elevations, driven in large part by warming temperatures contributing directly to melting and indirectly to more precipitation falling as rain rather than snow, in turn increasing the rate at which the glaciers move and increasing the size of glacial lakes, both decreasing ice cover.

In mountain regions that are warming, as most are, a larger fraction of precipitation falls as rain rather than as snow, which means lower stream flows in spring and summer.