Sentences with phrase «massive rain storms»

Sudden water input caused by short term extremes, such as massive rain storms or the draining of a surface lake, however... allows [the meltwater] to pool and lubricate the bottom of the glaciers and accelerate ice loss.

Then there was a massive rain storm on Saturday afternoon and that washed that away and the C7.R was edgy and nervous in Sunday morning warm - up.

Not exact matches

The Austin Business Journal describes SXSW as, «massive economic storm system raining down increased business throughout Central Texas.»

We had some massive storms roll through the state last night — tornadoes warnings, hail, strong winds, heavy rains.

As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the East Coast, federal forecasters are warning that the massive storm could bring «life - threatening» storm surges, flooding, hurricane - force winds, heavy rain and even blizzardlike snowfall over an area stretching from the Carolinas to Canada, and west to Ohio.

I'm currently in the USA: Texas was hit by another massive storm the day before yesterday; today Missouri continues to experience torrential rain and widespread flooding is expected, including from the Mississippi River.

The storm was heading to the north and northwest at just 23 mph, leaving massive amounts of both rain and snow in its wake.

Irene began to whip the East Coast with rain and wind early Friday and is expected to bring punishing winds, volumes of rain and massive storm surges north from the Carolinas all the way to New England as the weekend progresses.

Well, about one and a half hours into the ride, a massive storm started to brew and the hardest rains ever started coming down right as we reached our destination.

Took this shot downtown Helsinki about a half hour after a massive one - hour rain storm.

The region was recently hit by a major rain storm, which triggered massive flooding on rivers in Oregon and Washington.

Two recent events contrast existing vulnerability to extreme events: Hurricane Irene, which produced a broad swath of very heavy rain (greater than five inches in total and sometimes two to three inches per hour in some locations) from southern Maryland to northern Vermont from August 27 to 29, 2011; and Hurricane Sandy, which caused massive coastal damage from storm surge and flooding along the Northeast coast from October 28 to 30, 2012.

Ordinarily, rains pouring over the massive 1.2 million square foot building would drain into the city's storm water system.

The sun unleashed a massive solar storm today (June 7) in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vast cloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun's entire surface, NASA scientists say.

Massive floods in Alberta in 2013 and torrential rains and ice storms across Quebec, Ontario, and the Atlantic provinces have resulted in property damages of over $ 3 billion.