Sentences with phrase «more damaging storms»

The extra convection would not necessarily result in significantly more damaging storms because it would be spread across the globe and the increase in temperature between the surface and space would not need to become large before the process begins to take effect.

It would also mean investments in a hardened power grid, highways, sea walls, and other infrastructure to prepare for more damaging storms and other impacts of global warming.

This is a lowball estimate, but even at this level you're going to see increased coastal erosion, and much more damaging storm surges — even at the present frequency and severity of tropical cyclones.

Not exact matches

As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.

More than 130,000 homes were damaged in the storm; nearly 28,000 were completely destroyed or incurred major damage.

While you take notice of the boats ripped from their mooring and washing out to sea, note that the surge and storm were even more powerful at its epicenter over Big Pine Key, culminating in a 10 foot surge based upon waterlines we saw firsthand among damaged homes.

Damage and flooding was reported in some coastal communities that saw more than 500,000 people evacuate ahead of the storm.

The storm caused more than $ 100 billion in damage; some later estimates peg that number at over $ 150 billion.

It will be cheaper, they tell us, to adjust to increased storm damage, build more dikes and seawalls, relocate people and pay the costs of increased air - conditioning than it would be to take steps to slow global warming.

More than 600 men and women stormed a baptismal services of the Nachalat Yeshua congregation in Beersheba in 2005, attacking church goers and damaging property.

Real Madrid's match against Celta Vigo was postponed due to Balaidos being damaged by a storm, meaning the Catalan side have now played two games more than the current league leaders.

The storms that hit Chicago on Oct. 2 killed about 900 trees in parks, mostly on the South Side, and significantly damaged another 1,000 — and it could end up costing taxpayers more than $ 1 million.

With Trump taking the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement, New York can expect warmer temperatures, greater flooding and more damage from storms, and a whole host of other issues.

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.

State and local governments combined for more than $ 31.4 million in costs and infrastructure damage as a result of the storm, which killed three people.

A new report says Vermont is on target to close the vast majority of Irene - related cases by late summer, two years after flooding from the tropical storm damaged more than 7,000 homes.

Of the $ 5.9 billion from FEMA, $ 2.9 billion has been set aside for the New York City Housing Authority, which will improve more than 250 buildings inside 30 developments damaged by the storm.

More than 140 New York City firefighters, police officers and other workers are in Puerto Rico to help, and Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio is preparing for an expected influx of thousands of Puerto Ricans fleeing the storm's damage.

The damage from Tropical Storm Irene and the subsequent flooding has affected more than 100,000 acres of farmland in the state.

«Gov. Cuomo will spend more time traveling to the Virgin Islands than he will surveying the damage from the storm, and this will all be funded by New York's taxpayers.

The governor said that a total of 14 fatalities and six injuries were attributed to the storm, and more than 370 roofs were damaged and 38 structures completely destroyed due to the weight of the considerable snow accumulation.

The counties — Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Jefferson, Lewis, Orleans, St. Lawrence and Wyoming — together had more than $ 46.6 million in response costs and infrastructure damage verified as a result of the storm that rocked the region from Nov. 18 - 26, dumping just over seven feet of snow in some areas.

Four out of 38 applications the Trustees reviewed were damaged bluffs, bulkheads and staircases, and the board expects more emergency applications related to the storm as damage covered by drifting snow is revealed and part - time residents return, according to a letter presented to the Town Board.

A task force convened by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to assess the damage done by Superstorm Sandy has released a proposal to overhaul the city's building code with the goal of ensuring buildings are more storm - resilient, Crain's reported.

He also noted that the Adirondack Park Agency has recommended that shoreline property owners replace their existing docks with floating docks to avoid damage incurred from the storms which have occasionally dumped 10 or more inches of water on the lake's watershed.

If the popular Gibson can secure federal funding for the sinkhole, the police station and millions more to repair the storm - damaged sewage treatment plant, Kingstonians might give Gallo II another four - year engagement.

Two dozen members of the Army and Air Force National Guard joined more than 100 Erie County highway and park personnel Friday cleaning up tornado and storm - related damage to Hamburg and surrounding areas.

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.»

Those are more challenging metrics to capture, she said, but they're crucial for keeping an economy operational after a storm, and for minimizing expensive damage to roads due to sea - level rise.

Building a bulkhead or seawall along one or a few coastal properties may protect homes from damaging storm waves for a few years, but could end up doing more harm than good.

Rising seas, increased damage from storm surge and more frequent bouts of extreme heat will have «specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity,» it says.

«Climate change is not only raising the oceans and threatening foreshores, but making our coastlines much more vulnerable to storm damage.

With high winds and record - breaking storm surges in some areas, Sandy has claimed more than 100 U.S. lives, caused billions of dollars in damages and stranded travelers across the country

To more accurately predict storm tracks, landfalls and damage risks, researchers are focusing their attention on individual storms and past behavior to reduce the «cone of uncertainty»

To improve those lead times and also give more advance notice of the damage potential of an incoming CME, researchers say, they need more complete data about how the storms are produced on the sun and how they change over time.

For example, greening neighbourhoods or painting roofs lighter colours will both reduce the urban heat - island effect and reduce carbon - dioxide emissions through reduced air - conditioning costs, while making cities more resistant to storm damage would reduce emissions generated from rebuilding devastated areas.»

Showing that tweets could track a storm's path was «the main goal,» Cebrian explains, but then the team moved on to a more difficult question: Whether tweets were also associated with material storm damage.

With mean sea level rising, a storm that may not have done as much damage 20 to 40 years ago can do more damage today, he said.

After partially uprooting trees in a pattern that mimicked severe storm damage, researchers found that more than three - quarters continued to put out a full canopy of leaves the following spring.

The category 1 hurricane, later downgraded to a tropical storm as it approached New York City, made history for the numbers of people in its path — some 65 million — more than for the ferocity of its damage.

That flooding, combined with tornadoes spurred by the same storm system, killed more than 50 people and caused almost $ 2 billion in damage.

For more read «Cost of Storm Damage Will Rise Sharply, Even Without Climate Change» in the August issue of Scientific American.

Improved weather prediction, therefore, will be vital to giving communities more time to prepare for dangerous storms, saving lives and minimizing damage to infrastructure.

Tropical storms make their mark, but even more damage is caused by other organisms such as parrotfish, sponges and fungi.

Less rain, more storm damage Ireland has assiduously collected rainfall data, with amounts for the past 12 years showing huge year - to - year variations.

Since then, the term has become ubiquitous, tossed around easily as news anchors rattle off the storm's mounting toll: 13 dead, more than 2 million without power at the storm's peak and yet - untold billions of dollars in damages.

Three massive hurricanes, severe storms and wildfires across the U.S. caused more than $ 306 billion in damage last year, making 2017 the most expensive year for climate disasters on record.

The Mayfest storm was one of the costliest hailstorms in U.S history, causing more than $ 2 billion in damage and injuring at least 100 people.

Emanuel hopes that the study's results will help city planners and government officials to decide where and how to rebuild and fortify infrastructure, as well as whether to recode building standards to stand up to stronger storms and more damaging floods.

Mexico suffered its worst floods on record in mid-September when tropical storms Manuel and Ingrid converged from the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, killing more than 150 people and causing damage estimated at around $ 6 billion.