Sentences with phrase «lower than any storms»

Not exact matches

More than 18 months after Apple Pay took the United States by storm, the smartphone giant has made only a small dent in the global payments market, snagged by technical challenges, low consumer take - up and resistance from banks.

BERLIN — Throughout the month, countries caught in the eye of the European financial storm, including Italy, Spain and France, have repeatedly defied expectations, selling big batches of bonds to the public at interest rates significantly lower than investors demanded at the height of the euro crisis late last year.

The Russian forex has practically halved in benefit considering that the summer as it faces a «perfect storm» of lower oil rates, looming economic downturn and Western sanctions more than Ukraine.

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NHC had not yet issued a storm surge watch for the coasts of northern Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina as of 5 pm EDT Friday, but I expect the surge will be at least 3 - 5 feet in much of this region, which is lower than the 4 - 8 foot levels observed last October during Hurricane Matthew.

(Reuters)- More than 18 months after Apple Pay took the United States by storm, the smartphone giant has made only a small dent in the global payments market, snagged by technical challenges, low consumer take - up and resistance from banks.

«Catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide expects industry insured losses of $ 20 - $ 65 [billion]... based on the track as of Friday evening, and our sense is losses could be at the lower end of the range as the storm weakened faster than expected.»

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

An Investigative Post analysis of state data shows the Niagara Falls sewer system has spewed more than a half - billion gallons of raw sewage mixed with storm water into the Lower Niagara River since May 2016.

More than 20 stairwell covers have already been installed in lower Manhattan as part of the New York City subway system's Super Storm Sandy recovery efforts,» said Fortune, «With the RTP, we are capable of controlling the vastness of danger, damage and even inconvenience to the public due to flooding events.»

And the present regime has yet to stabilize: «With increasingly higher sea surface temperatures it is hard to imagine anything lower than 15 storms per year» going forward, the two conclude.

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

«The long group waves can have wavelengths of several kilometers but their height is much lower than that of the individual storm waves.

NIH faces «a perfect storm,» he said, partly driven by a flood of more than 20,000 applications for stimulus - funded grants, that could bring record - low success rates if the agency's budget doesn't rise above the current $ 30.6 billion.

In the simulations that included smoke - filled air, storm clouds were lower and thicker (and average wind speeds at 1 kilometer above ground were higher) than they were in the no - smoke models, the team reported online ahead of print in Geophysical Research Letters.

And how important is it to try to improve hydrological functioning by using low - impact development solutions rather than traditional storm - water solutions.

This means that, relative to whatever the local sea level is in the future, the risk of huge storm surges could be lower than it is today.

«These low - impact options use decentralized storm - water management methods aimed at keeping water on site rather than the traditional concrete structure that takes water away as quickly as possible,» Ando said.

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.

This big improvement has occurred even as the schools are serving a higher percentage of low - income students — 84 percent — than before the storm, and despite the fact that many of the students missed months of school.

The 8HD netted an equally low 2,032 on the 3DMark Ice Storm test, which is less than the MeMO Pad HD 7's 3,117 and Sero 7 LT's 2,886, and less than half of the 5,422 category average.

Though we had no problems gaming on the Iconia One 7, it scored a mediocre 6,042 on the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited graphics benchmark, quite a bit lower than the 9,234 tablet category average.

On the 3DMark Ice Storm benchmark, the T200's score of 16,567 is lower than those registered by the Switch 10 (17,922), the Inspiron 11 (20,361) and the Yoga 2 11 (32,053).

The Pure scored 2,881 on the 3DMark Ice Storm graphics test, which is significantly lower than the Google Nexus 10 (7,853), Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 (6,203) and category average of 5,898.

The Samsung slate scored 1,970 in 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, which is much lower than the 8,117 tablet category average and the Kindle Fire HDX's score of 16,201.

While this option costs more than standard glass, the energy savings may offset the initial outlay, especially given that a 2009 English Heritage study found that using low - E storm windows reduced the amount of heat lost through windows by 58 %.

Remember, though, that the building is not your responsibility, so your exposure from storms is somewhat lower than if you were responsible for, say, the roof.

This higher percentage is due to the fact that four out of the last five storms we examined occurred in 2004 or later, when we were in a lower interest rate environment than in the»90s or early»80s.

A more glamorous town than other more low - key hamlets, like Nature's Valley and Storms River, Plettenberg Bay serves as a seaside playground for the more affluent, and as a post-matric party destination (you'll want to avoid town during the annual Plett Rage Student Festival in early December).

Storm - bearing troughs of low pressure that move down the West Coast in spring normally make it no farther than Northern California.

Stat caps for Storm Shield Defenses were lower than intended and have been raised to their intended levels (equivalent to end - of - zone missions).

Many other Prospect.1 artists also mine New Orleans history, much of it Hurricane Katrina - related, perhaps nowhere more effectively than in the storm - ravaged Lower Ninth Ward.

Perhaps part of the reason why the poles warm more strongly than the lower latitudes (in addition to reduced sea - ice) may be an increase in storm activity along the storm tracks?

However, it's not just the absolute rise in sea level but the accompanying storm surges that would occur with any rise and the resultant flooding of all unprotected low lying lands, which are at higher elevations than the absolute rise.

A prominent (in the media, anyway) research study last year by Rutgers's Jennifer Francis and University of Wisconsin's Stephen Vavrus suggests that the declining temperature difference between the Arctic and the lower latitudes (adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere warms colder, drier regions more so than warmer, wetter ones — with the notable exception of Antarctica) has led to changes in the jet stream which result in slower moving, and potentially stronger East Coast winter storm systems.

But in the face of mild Pacific storms that brought rain instead of snow, as well as drier - than - average conditions and a record - warm winter, the snow cover stood at just 5 % of average on April 1, by far the lowest level ever recorded.

Weather records from 11 individual weather station were also correlated with annual balance, but each yielded lower correlation coefficients than the Cascade Mountain Division record, probably due to the significant local changes in precipitation for many storm events.

Its central pressure was as low as 963 milliBars — a level worthy of a hurricane — the storm stretched across much of the Central Arctic Basin, and it lasted better than five days.

For one, he said, recent storms have tracked more toward the North Pole through the Greenland Sea, drawing heat directly north from lower latitudes, rather than through a more circuitous route over the Barents Sea.

They let their cyclone model compare wind damage with either cyclone management or with hardening strategies to protect buildings — and find «if practically feasible and properly implemented, modification could reduce net losses from an intense storm more than hardening structures» [or to translate this to policy speech, do it equally good at a lower financial cost].

Sandy reached 13.88 feet... Simple arithmetic suggests the 1821 storm's high water was 2.68 feet lower than Sandy's.

As a result, vertical accelerations relative to the ground are probably stronger than would be expected from looking at the total CAPE alone, even though the storms are usually small, low - topped, and hard to detect on radar (tops < 30,000 - 35,000 ft).

Because Meranti is so large, its central pressure is even lower than would be the case for a smaller storm that had the same peak winds.

This forecast is slightly lower than the outlook issued in May, but remains above the seasonal average of 11 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes.

The frequency of track overlaps is much lower in the Western Hemisphere than in the Eastern Hemisphere, however, a related map showing storm intensity seen here shows an interesting contrast.

At a time when many, many people are already losing their lives and livelihoods to droughts and storms, our corporate state is draining the Paris agreement of any legal strength, rejecting any policy measures that carry more weight than polite recommendations, and shying away from anything lower than 2ºC as a «realistic» temperature target.

Among his predictions for this winter are a lack of strong storms along the Atlantic coast, colder than normal temperatures in the northern Plains and Great Lakes region, and abundant January precipitation from the lower Middle West to the mid-Atlantic seaboard.

I've figured out the difference in vertical scale between the two and I realize that the apparently low sensitivity in the Storms plot is owing to using 100 year response rather than equilibrium response.

Damage in Europe and South America will be less than $ 1 billion due to the low frequency of storms hitting these areas.

A sixty percent lower figure for EROI of nuclear power than the 93:1 I quoted would still give a pretty acceptable EROI for tar sands, whereas very low estimates of the order of 7:1 which some use based apparently on Storm - Smith would be a lot more doubtful.