Sentences with phrase «of heavy rainfall»

This resulted in an increase (1.9 % / decade) in the frequency of heavy rainfall above 25 mm.

During the wet season there is a higher likelihood of heavy rainfall.

The human influence was found to have increased the magnitude of heavy rainfall by 30 percent.

It was the kind of heavy rainfall that could become more frequent with climate change, even though scientists say no one weather event can be tied to warming temperatures.

Long - standing assumption: rain forests are a consequence of heavy rainfall.

For instance, the models did not tie the record Colorado floods after five days of heavy rainfall in September 2013 to climate change (ClimateWire, Oct. 30, 2013).

They have also found that there is substantial variability within the monsoon season, including fluctuations between periods of heavy rainfall (wet spells) and low rainfall (dry spells).

Days of heavy rainfall will continue to increase in number in most part of the Philippines, she said, as will days of hot weather with maximum temperatures exceeding 35 degrees Celsius.

During summer, most of northern Europe experienced above average precipitation, as did the Alpine region and the north of Italy and Slovenia, with a number of heavy rainfall events heavily influencing the average for the season and leading to wide - spread flooding events.

In summary, in contrast with the simulations of extreme temperature by climate models, extreme precipitation is difficult to reproduce, especially for the intensities and patterns of heavy rainfall which are heavily affected by the local scale (see Chapter 10).

«Flooding has occurred in Lembar village, West Lombok, and Montong Ajan village, Central Lombok, since Sunday afternoon because of heavy rainfall.

Formed as a result of heavy rainfall in 1700's, the rocky lookout attracts many visitors for its spectacular views.

Not surprisingly, given that rainfall is associated with rising air, the edge of the ITCZ bounds the regions of heaviest rainfall in the tropics (compare the colours and the red line in Fig. 1).

Analysis of extreme precipitation simulated by climate models has included the daily variability of anomalous precipitation (Zwiers and Kharin, 1998; McGuffie et al., 1999; Kharin and Zwiers, 2000), patterns of heavy rainfall (Bhaskran and Mitchell, 1998; Zhao et al., 2000b), as well as wet and dry spells (Thorncroft and Rowell, 1998; McGuffie et al., 1999).

Many courses, particularly those in areas of heavy rainfall, would be seriously scarred by a fleet of carts scampering along their fairways every day.

«There is no guarantee we will not see a repeat of the heavy rainfall which led to that flooding and so it is vital we start improving our systems and defences as soon as possible.»

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today declared a State of Emergency in Oneida County as County government and all of its local municipalities are dealing with the effects of heavy rainfall.

There have been complaints the government failed to take advantage of heavy rainfall in the north - west and Scotland by adding a pipeline to the south - east, but Ms Spelman insisted water was costly to transport.

But Kääb also saw water pooling on the surface of the glacier — a sign of heavy rainfall or unusually high temperatures.

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.

After the Colorado floods in 2013, Martin Hoerling, an atmospheric scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, and his colleagues found that climate change has decreased the likelihood and strength of heavy rainfall in northern Colorado.

«All storms are 5 to 10 percent stronger in terms of heavy rainfall,» Trenberth told me recently.

If you plan to visit it during the season of heavy rainfall, be sure to carry ear plugs to tune out the deafening water waves that fall with distinct ferocity.

From June to August, temperatures can reach a sweltering 40 °C (104 °F), with the added risks of heavy rainfall and high humidity.

In a study published in Science in 2006, Goswami et al. found that the level of heavy rainfall activity in the monsoon over India had more than doubled in the 50 years since the 1950s, leading to an increased disaster potential from heavy flooding.

Detmers et al. used satellite data to study how phases of heavy rainfall and drought affect carbon uptake over Australia, a semiarid continent where grasses and shrubs tend to dominate the landscape.

Similarly, Australia has seen the odds of both heavy rainfalls and droughts increase, and similar patterns are being observed worldwide, coinciding with rising temperatures over the past 50 years.

Indeed, some climate proxies point to several periods of extended drought during the MWP in some locations, such as the Sierra Nevada mountains of North America, parts of Australia, and the Asian steppe, whereas other areas, such as northern China, experienced a mix of heavy rainfall and drought.

In contrast, comparing the likelihoods of heavy rainfall during simulated La Niña years with El Niño / neutral years reveals a substantial La Niña influence on Australian rainfall during 2010 — 2012 that is robust to changes in the attribution framework.

«The combination of more intense rainfall and the spreading of heavy rainfall over larger areas means that we will face a higher flood risk than previously predicted,» said the study team, led by Andreas Prein (National Center for Atmospheric Research).

Following two years of heavy rainfall, a dry year could wreak havoc.

The second atmospheric river storm hit late on January 7, causing a prolonged period of heavy rainfall.

There was an overall good match between the areas with increasing frequency of flood events and areas experiencing increasing frequency of heavy rainfall events,» adds Villarini, who is also assistant research engineer at IIHR — Hydroscience & Engineering.

The number of heavy rainfall events, where daily precipitation exceeds 20 mm, was close to the 1981 - 2010 average for large parts of Europe.

Because of heavy rainfall, homeowners who live in houses built on slopes should contact a geotechnical engineer, or similar expert, to identify potential settlement issues.

Overland Water is defined as fresh water from rivers, lakes or water suddenly accumulated as a result of heavy rainfall.

Subsequent evolution can produce within a day significant changes comparable in magnitude to high - impact weather events such as regions of heavy rainfall or the existence of rotating supercells.

Following a day of heavy rainfall that actually closed some outdoor booths, including Google's, the day before, the lights went out for a couple of hours in two of the main CES halls at the Las Vegas convention center.

Conclusion: A La Niña episode — long associated with wetter - than - normal conditions in Australia — in 2012 likely accounts for most, but not all, of the heavy rainfall.

«And if you look the week after a period of heavy rainfall, you still see no relationship.

Observational evidence indicates that the frequency of the heaviest rainfall events has likely increased within many land regions in general agreement with model simulations that indicate that rainfall in the heaviest events is likely to increase in line with atmospheric water vapour concentration.

VW Heritage, a car firm based in the south of England, got a taste of this first hand recently when their UK workshop was flooded on New Year's day: In the weeks leading up to New Year 2014 our home county of Sussex saw some of the heaviest rainfall in decades.

This exact situation can produce some of the heaviest rainfall rates on Earth.

In Niger, a recent analysis of hourly rainfall data (Shinoda et al., 1999) reveals that the droughts in the 1970s and 1980s were characterised primarily by a reduced frequency of heavy rainfall events (those exceeding 30 mm / day) rather than by a reduction in rainfall amount within heavy events.