Sentences with phrase «likely than a storm»

Hurricane Harvey's record rainfall was three times more likely than a storm from the early 1900s and 15 percent more intense as a result of climate change, a new study in Environmental Research Letters found.

Not exact matches

The storm's exact path once it makes landfall is still unknown but flight cancellations due to Irma, currently at more than 4,000, will likely swell if the storm hits the much larger Atlanta hub.

Homeowners suffering flood damage from Harvey are more likely to be on the hook for losses than victims of prior storms — a potentially crushing blow to personal finances and neighborhoods along the Gulf Coast.

Although storms like Superstorm Sandy are incredibly rare, sea - level rise has made a Sandy - level inundation event 50 percent more likely than it was in 1950 in areas like the Battery and Sandy Hook, said William Sweet, a NOAA oceanographer.

This means that, counterintuitively, the most energetic solar storms are likely to provide a net cooling and shrinking effect on the upper atmosphere, rather than heating and expanding it as had been previously understood.

Increasing storm impacts are also likely to cause fragile branching species (responsible for most structural complexity on reefs) to decline more rapidly than the proportion of massive corals, resulting in low structural complexity on impacted reefs.

It also seems more than likely that Tye Sheridan (Cyclops), Alexandra Shipp (Storm) and Kodi Smit - McPhee (Nightcrawler) will reprise their roles from X-Men: Apocalypse as well.

The teachers are more likely than before the storm to come from an alternative certification program, such as TeachNOLA or TFA.

While it is more than likely not affordable to most of us normal people it seems to be going down a storm with celebrities.

Some people have indicated that using PodTrapper on the BlackBerry Storm is a bit clunky, but this is more than likely due to the interface changes of the Storm.

Many of us will be making trips to the beach or will curl up on the couch during an afternoon storm where we will more than likely be accompanied by a great summer read.

You're much more likely to get wet in a storm than a sprinkle.

Hurricane Maria, the sixth fastest intensifying hurricane on record, likely slammed parts of mountainous Puerto Rico with fiercer winds than previously reported, the National Hurricane Center said Monday in a final assessment of the lethal storm.

There is no explanation of what PDI is other than that it is «LIKELY a better measure of the destructive potential of the storms than previously used measures».

Emanuel found a close correlation between increases in this measure of hurricane activity (which is likely a better measure of the destructive potential of the storms than previously used measures) and rising tropical North Atlantic SST, consistent with basic theoretical expectations.

When the droplets turn to ice, they are much more likely to «blow off» into the cirrus anvil of the storm rather than fall as precipitiation.

The frequency of the most intense storms will more likely than not increase in some basins.

«Since aircraft reconnaissance into storms was routine in the Northwest Pacific during the earlier period of our record 1983 - 1987, the best track intensities during this period are likely to be more accurate than the later period 1988 - 2004 after the termination of reconnaissance.

If it gets much hotter than that, we will most likely be confronted by levels of drought and severe storms for which humanity has no precedent.

The deposits revealed that these early storms were more frequent, and in some cases were likely more intense, than the most severe hurricanes Cape Cod has seen in historical times, including Hurricane Bob in 1991 and a 1635 hurricane that generated a 20 - foot storm surge, according to Donnelly.

As a result, the air is on average warmer and moister than it was prior to about 1970 and in turn has likely led to a 5 — 10 % effect on precipitation and storms that is greatly amplified in extremes.

During the last big abrupt cooling, 12,900 years ago, Europe cooled down to Siberian temperatures within a decade (about ten-fold greater than in the Little Ice Age), the rainfall likely dropped by half, and fierce winter storms whipped a lot of dust into the atmosphere.

There is still quite a lot of uncertainty with this system, with the GFS model predicting it to be less likely than the ECMWF does that we'll be hit by this storm.

A rational public and private sector response to the threat of storm damage in a changing climate must therefore acknowledge scientific uncertainties that are likely to persist beyond the time at which decisions will need to be made, focus more on the risks and benefits of planning for the worst case scenarios, and recognize that the combination of societal trends and the most confident aspects of climate change predictions makes future economic impacts substantially more likely than does either one alone.

Lightning, however, is an order of magnitude more likely to occur in continental rainstorms than maritime storms (Fig. 2).

The air is on average warmer and moister than it was prior to about 1970 and in turn has likely led to a 5 — 10 % effect on precipitation and storms that is greatly amplified in extremes.

Meanwhile, another scientific fog arises as a result of a new paper just out in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggesting that storms like Superstorm Sandy — which has been widely linked to climate change in popular discourse — might be less likely, rather than more likely, in the future.

I've already noted in this thread (# 23) that there are differences in the database around 1950 compared to now - Atlantic storms that don't make landfall are much less likely to be rated Cat 3 or higher than they were 50 - 60 years ago.

Coastal Zones: The likely costs for protecting coastal zones from storm activity and sea level rise are probably three times greater than the UN estimate of $ 11 billion.

The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season starts Saturday, and scientists are warning that it is likely to be a doozy, with more storms than average and more major hurricanes (Category 3 intensity or stronger).

Though I have not heard any first hand accounts as of yet, those firms in Sandy's path that had engaged in some form of risk management planning were likely much better prepared for the effects of the storm and likely reestablished their business operations in a much shorter timeframe than those caught unprepared.

You can explain the situation and more than likely, if the storm was severe, the company has received other calls for damage in your area.

«If travel insurance was purchased before the storm was named, you will more than likely be covered,» said Tim Anderson, a spokesman for RoamRight, a travel insurance provider.

If you end up having your Storm Lake Iowa driving record suspended, revoked or barred, or you are convicted of a single instance of speeding by more than 25 mph, you will also likely have to participate in the Storm Lake Iowa Driver Improvement Program.

While this is more than likely a fluke than a widespread issue, Digital Storm does offer three years of tech support and warranty for free in the off chance lightning should strike twice.

We should also say that this is likely a fluke, rather than something that often happens with Digital Storm's system builds.