Sentences with phrase «more rainfall»

Unfortunately climate models regarding rainfall in the region have told two different stories: some models have predicted more rainfall in the region, while others have less.

As for precipitation, certain areas will be drier and others will see more rainfall, snow and storms, especially in the winter and spring seasons.

Others experience more rainfall during the summer or winter, but they never have especially dry seasons.

I have read studies what predict more rainfall and less rainfall, more snow and less snow, and so on and so on.

So much rain fell that the region saw 16 inches more rainfall than normal for the month.

However, there is definitely more rainfall during the summer months than during the winter.

The simplistic reasoning that warming will cause all forms of storms to carry more rainfall does, if you'll forgive the expression, appear to hold water however.

Last winter I got 4 times more snow (14 ft.) and somewhat more rainfall than normal.

In August, Cancun receives more rainfall than it does in July, although it's still less than the resort experiences in September, which is the wettest month of the year.

Because of the increase in moisture content, existing wind patterns carry more moisture and strengthen the atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle: storms bring more rainfall, wet regions get wetter, and dry regions get drier (Held and Soden 2006, O'Gorman and Schneider 2009).

A new NASA research says that climate change will cause more rainfall in tropical regions that are typically sunny.

Washington, March 4 (IANS) Soot falling on the snow covered Tibetan Plateau causes more rainfall over India and China, says a new study.

And more rainfall means more nutrients and higher nutrients mean more toxicity,» Timothy Davis, an ecologist at the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, said.

«We might be able to capture 10, 20, 30 percent more rainfall in some areas.»

Some regions experience slightly more rainfall in the winter and others in the summer, but there is no true «rainy season» in New Zealand.

The temperatures don't vary too much throughout the year, but there is much more rainfall on the trail between November and March.

However, the likelihood of more rainfall in the lower Missouri Valley and the Northern Plains should somewhat alleviate those areas» current drought, NOAA researchers said.

The effects could be nuanced, with more rainfall north of the main alpine crest but a tendency toward drought on the southern face of the range.

Wet springs are likely to delay planting, for example.4 And in hotter weather, plants typically require more rainfall simply to retain the same amount of moisture.

The cycle may continue as that rainwater eventually moves back into the atmosphere and causes more rainfall downwind from the original agricultural area.

In weaker winter SWAC years, there is an anticyclonic anomaly over the southern Indian Ocean resulting in weaker westerlies and northerlies, which are not favorable for more rainfall over SWWA, and the opposite combination is true in the stronger winter SWAC years.

August sees dozens of times more rainfall than all the previous months of the year combined with a total monthly precipitation that reaches 53 mm this is the first of the three rainy months in Cape Verde.

The geoengineering technique might have some unintended benefits, like more rainfall, but also consequences if ever interrupted

If you factor in that in as well, there'll be even more rainfall, and more floods.»

«While the amount of rainfall is increasing through time and the smaller storms are dumping more rainfall overall, it comes in smaller and more frequent spurts.

This change often meant a smaller catch but more rainfall inland.

More heat translates to more moisture in the air so more rainfall, more snow (melting faster though) likely larger climate momentums causing droughts and floods as well as debilitating storms and crop failures.

The rainy season from September to November remains warm with average temperatures of 27 °C, but considerably more rainfall, and the weather can be unpredictable.

The rainy season is generally characterized by increased humidity and periodic rain showers, with the southern part of Belize receiving significantly more rainfall.

Given that studies of past climate patterns have found evidence of super-deluges in the Northeast, and that scientists have observed a century - long trend toward more rainfall coming in heavy downpours in the world's temperate zones (a pattern matching what's expected in a greenhouse - heated world), the logic in planning for the worst case in designing everything from a dam to a basement to a rural road is growing ever stronger.

Guardian: Although climate change is expected to lead to slightly more rainfall at the global level, the timing and distribution of that rain is likely to change, increasing the chance of drought in some regions.

Answers for the human species often involve the global warming problem, as the water evaporates, but this can create more rainfall in a few areas.

We are anticipating more rainfall in the mountains.

Those effects include more rainfall that occurs in heavy downpours, meaning less is absorbed into the earth and more becomes runoff; more rain and less snowfall in the mountains, which means less melting snow to feed rivers in the spring and summer; and higher temperatures causing more evaporation.

However, even if East Africa will see more rainfall instead of less, it's likely to come in bigger bursts — i.e. flooding — instead of the dependable rain needed for communities.

Earlier this month, Jordan, the second most water - poor country in the world, ordered more rainfall through cloud - seeding to help alleviate water shortages.

Similarly, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts a warming world will lead to more extreme rainfall: The UK is expected to receive about 10 per cent more rainfall on average per year by 2100, compared to 1986 - 2005.

As the earth warms, we expect to see currently wet regions receiving more rainfall, and dry regions receiving less, although there will be exceptions,» Stocker said.

«Our studies show we can get a good 10 to 15 percent more rainfall produced when we do cloud seeding,» he said.

Although the sooty exhaust tended to boost lightning rates, other data suggest that the storms didn't produce more rainfall than those over areas nearby, the researchers say.

In contrast to the Pacific coast, the Caribbean beaches see more rainfall and are therefore flanked by thick vegetation and dense forestation which runs well inland covering all the lowland areas.