Sentences with phrase «of intense rains»

If the planetary temperatures rise beyond the 1.5 °C to 2 °C limit proposed by the Paris agreement signed by 197 nations in 2015, then climate change could arrive in Mali, Niger and Chad in the shape of intense rains of the kind identified as seasonal monsoons.

We've had several days of intense rain and wind here on the south coast.

Some supercell thunderstorms have a descending core of intense rain and hail wrapping around the west side of the storm.

The recurring wave pattern of intense rain and thunderstorms, followed by a dry phase as the force moves across the cooler Pacific Ocean occurs every 30 - 60 days, giving this atmospheric wave its unique stamp on the climate.

High levels of water vapor in the atmosphere in turn create conditions more favorable for heavier precipitation in the form of intense rain and snow storms.

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He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

But this year's intense Atlantic storm season had another element tying its biggest events together: a monstrous, and sometimes deadly, amount of rain.

First off, yes: There's consensus that the science of climate change predicts that in a warming world, hurricanes will become more intense, carry more rain, and cause worse coastal flooding linked in part to sea level rise.

Along Interstate 45 leaving Galveston, the rain was so intense that drivers stopped under bridges because they could not see in front of them.

Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were forced off the road because they could not see in front of them.

The rain let up and just for a few moments while the sky was still dark, the light became this intense force of brightness.

Although we are blessed with fair temperatures most of the year and can grill often, sometimes the intense Texas heat or a rain - filled day prevents us from doing so.

But on the first morning of the storm, when the rain and flooding were most intense, I did actually laugh out loud when I learned via Facebook that the Houston Chronicle had chosen that particular day to publish a school food opinion piece I'd submitted a few weeks before.

But on the first morning of the storm, when the rain and flooding were most intense, I did actually laugh out loud when I learned... [Continue reading]

While the eye of Hurricane Maria has left Puerto Rico, powerful winds and intense rains are still pounding the island and further damaging its already crippled infrastructure.

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

A generation of extremely efficient farmers increasingly sees irrigation as a nonviable alternative while mulling over a switch from water - intense cotton and wheat to rain - fed sorghum and grains

The Indian monsoon is a period of intense rainfall that more than a billion people rely on to bring rains to farmland.

This explanation may also hold a key to Oren's obsession, to the reason he braves ridicule and the intense hardship of these expeditions: He loves the rain forest, and he loves Brazil, a country that he just joined as a naturalized citizen.

Overall, consistent with the findings of Huntington (2006), the evidence for increases in both severe droughts and heavy rains (Section 3.8.2) in many regions of the world makes it likely that hydrologic conditions have become more intense.

I saw wild monkeys in Granada which has a rain - forest — and eleven types of bananas, all bursting with intense flavor.

If you're stuck indoors because of rain or intense heat, there are plenty of fun date ideas.

Her group went on an intense five - week tour of the whole country, from the Andes to the Amazon rain forest, and took three weeks of classes while living with Venezuelan families.

Nearby stood the giant camphor tree, whose overhanging branches gave ample shelter from the rain and intense heat of the South.

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Thought it's in an intense rivalry with Portland, OR, for the title of «Hipster Capital of the World,» Seattle is more than just skinny jeans, rain, and Microsoft.

He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

Without the influence of high winds, intense cold or extreme heat, pending rain or thunderstorms, our skilled trades people can work with care and attention to every detail.

Both women live in the East Village and frequently take their dogs to East River Park, where the canines play in the soggy fields and puddles of still water left by the intense rains, the story noted.

Thunderstorms are common, drifting west from the Sonoran desert that can deliver high winds and short intense periods of rain.

Or simply that every gust of wind, intense ray of sunshine or drop of rain against the cheek is that much more accessible.

The natural scarcity of water (6 month dry season) has caused wildlife to evolve and thrive in an environment with fewer nutrients than other tropical forests while also maintaining the ability endure six months of intense tropical rain.

Combat also employs the use of Quick Time Events, but these are not as intense as say the ones in Heavy Rain.

And it's the same reason why, locked in an intense ship - to - ship battle that was more Master & Commander than Pirates of the Caribbean, sailing through the wind, rain, and a booming thunderstorm overhead, that a member of your crew might stand on the bow and play a merry tune on any one of this game's musical instruments, rather than lend a hand that could swing the tide of battle: because you can, and it's bloody brilliant.

Titles such as Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls provide intense gameplay whilst simultaneously creating this almost real sense of rapport with the characters.

Highlights include the classic masterpiece Rain, Steam and Speed and an intense representation of the House of Commons and Lords aflame.

Andrews notes, by contrast, that the High Line's physical design offers visitors a chance to develop awareness of the body in relation to extreme natural weather conditions including intense winds, rain, snow, and sun.

We know that precipitation intensity has been increasing (the amount of rain that falls in the most intense events) across the northern hemisphere — this was clear in the literature even before the Pall et al paper.

As Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put it in a email not long ago: «One has to recognize that the human toll from hurricanes results from the most intense wind and rain events; the vast majority of storms do little or no damage.

The first thorough federal review of research on how global warming may affect extreme climate events in North America forecasts more drenching rains, parching droughts (especially in the Southwest), intense heat waves and stronger hurricanes if long - lived greenhouse gases continue building in the atmosphere.

«We're going to be see more of these periods of intense droughts followed by intense rain,» which is the situation predicted for East Africa this year.

Projected changes in climate, including an increase of droughts and less frequent, more intense rain events, imply that this phenomenon may make peat bogs into larger sources of methylmercury to downstream water resources and ecosystems.

Intense rain in Detroit in August 2014 killed two, caused an estimated $ 1.1 billion of damage, and affected 118,000 homes and businesses.

The cold, strong storm from the Gulf of Alaska combined with warmer, moister, subtropical air over L.A., which caused hail around the region and heavy, intense rain on the south L.A. County coast.

In weather systems, convergence of increased water vapor leads to more intense precipitation and the risk of heavy rain and snow events, but may also lead to reductions in duration and / or frequency of rain events, given that total amounts do not change much.

It is a broad storm front with intense pockets of rain that is calculated to happen on average once every thousand years.

«Rains have become more intense and fall in a shorter period,» and warmer temperatures are leading to faster melting of the Himalayan glaciers, compounding the risks of flooding.

Extreme drought grips the South and Midwest; in Memphis, which suffered intense flooding earlier this year, just one - hundredth of an inch of rain has fallen this month.

More intense rains and hurricanes and rising sea levels will lead to more severe flooding and potential loss of property and life.

Which forms the basis for the IPCC claim of high climate sensitivity (mean value of 3.2 C), resulting in significant global warming (up to 6.4 C warming by 2100), «extreme high sea levels», increased «heat waves», increased «heavy rains» and floods, increased «droughts», increased «intense tropical cyclones» — which, in turn, lead to crop failures, disappearance of glaciers now supplying drinking water to millions, increased vector borne diseases, etc. (for short, potentially catastrophic AGW — or «CAGW»).