Sentences with phrase «much heavier rainfalls»

«Although these storms occur naturally, the storm is apt to be more intense, maybe a bit bigger, longer - lasting, and with much heavier rainfalls [because of that ocean heat],» Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, told The Atlantic.

«Although these storms occur naturally, the storm is apt to be more intense, maybe a bit bigger, longer - lasting, and with much heavier rainfalls [because of that ocean heat].»

Not exact matches

#Harvey's heavy rainfall isn't over yet - an additional 10 - 25 inches expected over the next 5 days for much of the area #houwx #glswx #txwx pic.twitter.com/4hVDdXi 2lH

But Chris Collier, head of the Met Office's Metstar consultancy service, told a conference on natural disasters in London last week that the system has failed to predict the kind of «convective» storms that have caused much of the heaviest rainfall in recent weeks.

Much of Japan received heavy rainfall from Typhoons Nakri and Halong during the first half of the month.

In 2012, a research team that included NIU's Walker Ashley, a professor of meteorology in the geography department, found that in comparison to rural areas, large cities in the Southeast had a much higher risk of experiencing heavy rainfalls associated with summertime thunderstorms.

The IBC says that much of the increase is due to extreme weather such as ice storms, severe cold snaps and heavy rainfall.

Fires in the West, droughts in the Southwest, melting snowpack in the Northwest, flooding and heavy rainfall in the Northeast, the much stronger coastal storms and hurricanes that we've seen in the Gulf: we've gotten to the point where we can all point to something that's happening and say: «This is what climate change is doing to our region.»

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

Precipitation occurs about once every seven days in the western part of the region and once every three days in the southeastern part.77 The 10 rainiest days can contribute as much as 40 % of total precipitation in a given year.77 Generally, annual precipitation increased during the past century (by up to 20 % in some locations), with much of the increase driven by intensification of the heaviest rainfalls.77, 78,79 This tendency towards more intense precipitation events is projected to continue in the future.80

Indeed, rainfall data reveal significant increases of heavy precipitation over much of Northern Hemisphere land and in the tropics (27) and attribution studies link this intensification of rainfall and floods to human - made global warming (28 ⇓ — 30).