Sentences with phrase «less rainfall»

Worse, there was much less rainfall in many places, together with high winds and severe dust storms.

This should melt the glaciers even faster, and might bring the additional problem of less rainfall because of climatic changes.

My understanding is it gets less rainfall than other places during the rainy season but that mightn't make a difference; rainy is rainy!

Today's dry regions — both urban and rural — are both water - limited, the researchers found, because of less rainfall overall.

Climate scientist Mr. Mitchell said the Mediterranean and Middle East were likely to receive less rainfall as a consequence of climate change, adding to existing tensions over water.

Asia and Australia will see less rainfall as a result of El Niño, leading to drought and wildfires.

As well as this, increased average temperatures and more erratic rainfall could become be the «new normal» according to the report — with significantly less rainfall in the Mediterranean, Madagascar and the Cerrado - Pantanal in Argentina.

Since 2011, California has also been suffering its worst drought on record Climate models do not predict less rainfall for the state, but do forecast that years of naturally low rainfall will be more likely to be unusually warm, say Noah Diffenbaugh and colleagues at Stanford University.

In 40 years, for instance, Montana will likely see 5ºF warmer summers on average but receive 10 percent less rainfall, he said.

Less rainfall during the driest times of the year would exacerbate die - offs, heightening the risk of fire and releasing more carbon into the atmosphere.

The winter has been remarkably dry through much of the UK, with less rainfall than in the months preceding the severe drought of 1976, which triggered water rationing and wild fires.

Since Ambergris Caye is in northern Belize, it receives much less rainfall than southern locations such as Placencia and Punta Gorda.

Indeed, although the 2012 summer experienced less rainfall over the central Great Plains than in either 1934 or 1936, those years were about 0.5 °C warmer.»

It was an interesting programme, educative and inspiring», said MacCarthy Doh, adding that he had been able to learn a new skill on how to manage and raise the cocoa seedlings during the dry season and when there is less rainfall by applying the method called Drip Irrigation System.

Matching the models with stalagmites There was a much clearer correlation between less rainfall in the region and the Heinrich events, Carolin said.

As the logic — and science — goes, a cooler, geoengineered planet means less evaporation, and thus less rainfall.

«You get less evaporation, less moisture in the atmosphere, and less rainfall again.

Higher temperatures and less rainfall suggest that the region's trees face an uncertain future

One received normal rainwater; two were sprayed with a solution containing either 50 percent more nitrogen or phosphorus; another received both nutrients; and the last branch was partially covered to mimic less rainfall.

The particles could have acted like a shield, blocking out the sun and preventing some radiation from evaporating water on the planet's surface, resulting in even less rainfall.

Interestingly, the study shows that there is a long - term decline in heavy rainfall events (greater than 25 mm / h) and an associated increase in the number of smaller storms each delivering less rainfall.

The annual average rainfall on Madeira Island is greater on the northern coast than on the southern coast and increases with altitude; however Ponta Delgada generally has less rainfall compared to other north - facing areas at the same altitude.

Being in the tropics, many visitors would expect to see rainforest, but Magnetic Island, having considerably less rainfall than the wet tropics slightly further north and the Whitsundays slightly further south, is typical of the dry tropics.

Global models, which smooth out local topography, allow too much cold, dry air to travel into the region, skewing predictions toward less rainfall, they concluded.

These include an increase of rainfall in north - western Australia, and an increase of air pressure over southern Australia, which may have contributed to less rainfall there.»

Northern Africa and other places will see dramatically less rainfall.

Diveable year round, Bonaire has a dry climate, which means less rainfall and more warm, clear days and waters that are free of disturbances.

Pemuteran receives less rainfall than other island areas during rainy season and is too dry for rice cultivation.

It produces less rainfall over Borneo and the south of New Guinea.

The Gili islands have a micro-climate, experiencing significantly less rainfall than Lombok and Bali.

The chief scientist in the environment ministry, Yeshayahu Bar - Or, was quoted in The Economist in June as predicting that global warming would cause 35 percent less rainfall, contamination of underground water sources and pollution of the Sea of Galilee, this nation's largest source of fresh water.

Central India witnessed up to 30 % less rainfall during the monsoon.

About 50 years after installing the panels, India and eastern Australia, for example, get warmer because of less rainfall, and the northwestern United States gets warmer because of wind pattern changes.

Much of their ag land is in an area which is expected to receive much less rainfall.

The US Midwest and southern France would get less rainfall, while the UK and Hawaii would get wetter.

The precipitation dipole is such that higher rainfall on the west coast of Indonesia corresponds to less rainfall in East Africa, and vice versa.

Roughly speaking, a higher ratio signals warmer temperatures and less rainfall.

The weaker temperature gradient would have meant less rainfall and more evaporation in the midlatitude North Pacific.

Less rainfall to the area will mean reduced runoff into water basins that feed irrigated fields.

Nor is it clear how other, less well understood climate changes, such as more or less rainfall, could affect insects.

So apparently you're suggesting that decadal - scale precipitation patterns (more, less rainfall) and temperature changes are better explained by atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

Over the past few years, many parts of the country has had less rainfall than in the past.

The «land of smiles» has a tropical climate with rainy and dry seasons, and many consider the best time to visit between November and February, when the temperatures are not too hot, and there is less rainfall than at other times.