Sentences with phrase «of average precipitation»

The Northern Sierra watersheds are currently sitting at just above 200 % of average precipitation for the season to date — a rather extraordinary statistic.

The pattern of change for the wettest day of the year is projected to roughly follow that of the average precipitation, with both increases and decreases across the U.S. Extreme hydrologic events are projected to increase over most of the U.S.

In contrast, France received less than 90 percent of its average precipitation total for 2015, making this one of the 10 driest years for the country in the past half century.

Texas had its wettest spring on record with 223 percent of average precipitation.

During May 5th — 31st, the Huanan region in the northeast received rainfall 150 percent of its average precipitation, the most in nearly 40 years.

Not exact matches

Expected La Niña... Potential impacts in the United States include an enhanced chance for below - average precipitation across much of the South, while above - average precipitation is favored for the northern Plains.

Kona is generally dry, with an average annual precipitation of 32.05 inches (814 mm).

The properties of the climate system include not just familiar concepts of averages of temperature, precipitation, and so on but also the state of the ocean and the cryosphere (sea ice, the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers, snow, frozen ground, and ice on lakes and rivers).

In some tropical and subtropical regions it is more common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season versus the dry season, as the amount of precipitation may vary more dramatically than the average temperature.

If the temperatures during the runoff season — March to July — were cooler than average, streamflow was higher than expected on the basis of winter precipitation alone, the team found.

With an average annual air temperature of -2.2 F and an average precipitation of 3 - 50 mm per year, the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are dominated by dry soils underlain by permafrost.

However, when runoff - season temperatures were above average, streamflow was less than expected on the basis of winter precipitation.

Every ten years the data center calculates new U.S. «climate normals,» or 30 - year average values, for meteorological elements such as temperature, precipitation, and heating and cooling degree days for thousands of U.S. weather stations.

The changes shown in these maps compare an average of the model projections to the average temperature and precipitation benchmarks observed from 1971 - 2000.

Maps of median TAE averaged across 23 model simulations for (a) and (b) mean surface air temperature, (c) and (d) highest daily maximum temperature, (e) and (f) lowest daily minimum temperature, (g) and (h) total precipitation, and (i), (j) maximum 1 - d precipitation for (a), (c), (e), (g) and (i) June - August and (b), (d), (f), (h) and (j) December - February.

Latvia reported its fifth wettest August on record and second wettest for the 21st century, receiving 178 percent of the country's long - term average precipitation.

In France, even with a drier than average June, total summer (June - August) precipitation was more than 140 percent of average, marking one of the 10 wettest summers since national records began in 1959.

Because the models predict little average precipitation increase nationwide over this period, the product of CAPE and precipitation gives about a 12 percent rise in cloud - to - ground lightning strikes per degree in the contiguous U.S., or a roughly 50 percent increase by 2100 if Earth sees the expected 4 - degree Celsius increase (7 degrees Fahrenheit) in temperature.

With an average annual precipitation of more than 10 meters in some locales, slopes sport temperate rainforests and shrubby ecosystems that trap soil before it can wash away to the seas, where its ability to scrub CO2 from the air would cease.

Although the rising average global surface temperature is an indicator of the degree of disruption that we have imposed on the global climate system, what's actually happening involves changes in circulation patterns, changes in precipitation patterns, and changes in extremes.

As indicated by the June precipitation percentiles map below, the eastern United States and much of India were much wetter than average, with record rainfall across portions of India.

The work, which covered 1936 - 2010, considered average monthly temperatures and total monthly precipitation for the water year (prior October to September) as possible predictors of annual streamflow.

The August CONUS precipitation total was slightly below average and ranked in the driest third of the historical record.

The end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere was a dry one for Australia, with February receiving just 49 percent of average monthly precipitation, marking the country's 11th driest February on record.

The average width of a tree ring is a function of many variables including the tree species, tree age, stored carbohydrates in the tree, nutrients in the soil, and climatic factors including sunlight, precipitation, temperature, wind speed, humidity, and even carbon dioxide availability in the atmosphere.

Despite a near - average winter precipitation total for California, Oregon, and Washington, the record warmth caused most of the precipitation to fall as rain and not snow, which had implications on the drought intensification and water resource crisis during the warm months.

Precipitation for 2015 was 22.5 mm (0.8 inch) below the 1961 — 1990 average of 1,033 mm (40.7 inches).

December rounded out the year with a precipitation total of 1.65 inches, 1.42 inch below average, the fourth driest such month on record.

Much of the precipitation that fell across the state during the season was rain and not snow, with much below average snowpack at the end of the season.

The October precipitation total was 135 percent of average and the 13th wettest on record.

Above - average precipitation fell across eastern parts of the state, but below - average precipitation across western and central parts of the state resulted in drought expanding during the season.

Regionally, CEI was much above average in the West and Northwest, due to elevated components of warm maximum and minimum temperatures, spatial extent of drought and days with precipitation.

Most of the nation had near - to below - average precipitation during the month.

Over the 121 - year period of record, precipitation across the CONUS has increased at an average rate of 0.16 inch per decade.

The 3 - month average CONUS precipitation of 6.15 inches was 0.64 inch below average and the 29th driest on record.

Northern and western parts of Alaska had near - average annual precipitation totals, while the eastern and central parts of the state were wetter and much wetter than average.

The annual precipitation total for Alaska is slightly decreasing at an average rate of 0.03 inch per decade.

By the end of the year, that pattern had flipped, with record and near - record temperatures across most of the East and near - to below - average temperatures for much of the West, associated with much needed above average precipitation across the region.

Figure 3 - 2 shows that average annual precipitation is highest west of the Continental Divide (MT DNRC 2015).

Why It Matters: On average, atmospheric rivers hit the western United States only a few times each winter, but they transport significant amounts of moisture that converges in the mountains producing heavy precipitation.

With precipitation records dating back to 1947, May 2015 was the driest May on record for the country, with total average rainfall for the month just 25 percent of normal.

Above - average November precipitation was observed across much of the Great Plains, Midwest, and Southeast.

In Montana, El Niño winters receive roughly 70 - 90 % of normal precipitation, and both winter and summer are warmer than average (Figures 2 - 5 and 2 - 6)(NWSb undated; Higgins et al. 2007).

Broadly, seasonal average temperature and precipitation patterns limit both the length of the fire season and environmental conditions during the fire season.

Average winter precipitation has decreased by 0.9 inches (2.3 cm), which can mostly be attributed to natural variability and an increase in El Niño events, especially in the western and central parts of the state.

The relationship between the following covariates and podoconiosis prevalence was explored: elevation and derived slope; long - term average of precipitation; enhanced vegetation index (EVI); clay and silt content of the top soil (0 — 15 cm), and night light - emissivity (see Supplementary File 1).

Northwestern Montana receives an average of 9.4 inches (23.9 cm) of winter precipitation, but locally, and at higher elevations within the mountains, this value can increase to greater than 20 inches (50.8 cm).

ACPI assumes a 1 percent annual increase in the rate of greenhouse gas concentrations through the year 2100, for little change in precipitation and an average temperature increase of 1.5 to 2 degrees centigrade at least through the middle of 21st century.

The majority of models suggest a slight increase in total average annual precipitation across the state, largely occurring in spring, particularly in the northwest.

Although WUE was positively correlated with CUE, NPP, and LAI, average baseline WUE was highest in grassland systems, which also had lower rates of mean annual NPP, precipitation, and LAI.