Sentences with phrase «of rain and snow»

Higher elevation areas could experience altered water flow in some river basins if current rates of glacial retreat continue, but shifts in the location, intensity, and variability of rain and snow due to climate change will likely have a greater impact on regional water supplies.

An excess of half a million pounds of Atrazine return to the planet each year in the form of rain and snow after it is swept up in the airstream following crop spraying.

From January to February, WDs bring heavy bursts of rain and snow.

In short, water evaporates into the atmosphere from both land and sea and returns to Earth's surface in the form of rain and snow.

One study concludes that about 60 percent of the rain and snow that falls over land comes from moisture originating from the oceans, and the other 40 percent is «recycled» over the continents.

In the past two months, weather reports in California, Oregon, and Washington have been filled with news of «atmospheric rivers» bringing copious amounts of rain and snow to the western United States.

Then a steady stream of atmospheric river events brought double the long - term average of rain and snow to the Sierra Nevada between October 2016 and April 2017.

Duh, When oceans are warmer, there is more precipitation in the form of rain and snow and that takes ocean water and dumps it on land as water and ice.

Warnings have been posted for the risk of mudslides in areas that burned in last year's wildfires, as bone - dry California looks forward to its best week of rain and snow this winter.

changing landscapes Rising temperatures and changing patterns of rain and snow are forcing trees and plants around the world to move toward polar regions and up mountain slopes.

The current study support previous findings which found that accelerated subtropical warming of the troposphere could shift the paths of rain and snow storms poleward.

About 60 % of the rain and snow over land comes straight from the oceans, and the other 40 % is «recycled» over the continents.

China, for example, gets most of its rain and snow from evaporation over Eurasia.

Our analysis examines the heaviest downpours — the days where total precipitation exceeded the top 1 percent of all rain and snow days — at over 3,000 rain gauges distributed across the country over the period 1950 - 2014.

Nevertheless, shifts in the location, intensity, and variability of both rain and snow will likely have a greater impact on regional water supplies than glacier retreat will.

The storm was heading to the north and northwest at just 23 mph, leaving massive amounts of both rain and snow in its wake.

We award a city up to six points in each of three areas: the amount of rain and snow, the number of wet days per year, and the number of days below freezing.

Ford's redone 1992 Taurus arrived with the undoing of a drought and an undeniable demonstration of Southern California's wackier ways: Five years of rain and snow... Read more

This benefit was evident while driving through an unexpected spate of rain and snow.

First, let me say that I'm wishing for Spring weather as it's a mix of rain and snow outside but since it's humid, there's no snow on the ground.

Especially with all of the rain and snow us Californians are getting!

My mood is very sensitive to the weather, and growing up in Massachusetts, you can imagine I had some seriously sad days during endless bouts of rain and snow and cold and darkness.

Whether it comes from an underground spring or from an artesian well, spring water is the product of rain and snow filtered through layers of rock, where it picks up all sorts of valuable minerals that are good for you.

It falls out in the form of rain and snow.

Windy with evening rain... then a mix of rain and snow overnight.

Methods: The researchers demonstrated that an adequate representation of strong precipitating storms in climate models is not possible without an accurate description of rain and snow transport by infrequent and vigorous upward and downdrafts.

The amount of rain and snow falling on the northern Sierras, where the drought hit hardest, wasn't actually that low — just 25 percent below average for the first half of 2015.

The radars provide estimates of rain and snow rates, accurate identification of the regions where rain transitions to snow during winter storms, and detection of large hail in summer thunderstorms.

You never know what kind of rain and snow can come when the summer days end.

The months of rain and snow melting into Lake Erie has swelled its water level to the highest level since 1998, and a new U.S. Corps of Engineers» forecast projects the lake will remain 4 to 9 inches above average through November.

Snow showers in the morning will give way to a mixture of rain and snow for the afternoon.

49ers vs. Patriots - Sunday, 8:20 P.M., NBC FORECAST - Cold, chance of rain and snow mixed.

Not exact matches

Airlines had canceled more than 2,000 flights Friday as a powerful nor'easter brought rain, snow and severe wind to much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

Hardness can also vary over seasons, as the dissolved minerals can be diluted by a flood of spring rain or amplified by road salts and melting snow.

Just two weeks ago, 13,000 tourists were stranded at the foot of the Matterhorn by heavy snow and rain.

There's plenty of snow and rain in the state as well as mCity, a 32 - acre simulated real - world urban environment at the University of Michigan used by automakers to test autonomous driving tech.

Winter is here, and it's about to get even colder in the northeastern and midwestern parts of the U.S. Winter storm Grayson has already begun delivering freezing rain and snow to states as south as Florida, coating Tallahassee with snow for the first time in 28 years.

Remember how we were here in the snow just yesterday and now we are older in the rain, and we have all these years, all of the years we spent together.

It is really cold where we live, and I've brought him clothes and cat food and blankets, but I still can't sleep at night in my warm bed while I think of him out in the 20 degree weather, sometimes in rain and snow.

The village has made an arrangement with the vernal and autumnal moods of the river: the houses and shops know how much the river rises with the spring runoff of the snow water and with the fullness of the autumn rains.

Grillo, said Fo, «is from the tradition of the wise storyteller, one who knows how to use surreal fantasy, who can turn situations around, who has the right word for the right moment, who can transfix people when he speaks, even in the rain and the snow.»

The creation that used to rejoice with us and to remind us of the beauty and bounty of God now groans with us as rain and snow do not come to feed our crops and as the earth grumbles and the waters spit out death.

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains All the cops have wooden legs And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth And the hens lay soft - boiled eggs The farmers» trees are full of fruit And the barns are full of hay Oh I'm bound to go Where there ain't no snow Where the rain don't fall The winds don't blow In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

These sand and gravel deposits created aquifers that contain large volumes of groundwater that is replenished by rain and snow.

A few days of rain, hail and almost snow had me craving a cozy chili, something we eat quite often after long ski days during the winter months.

We will get a mixture of warm spring days, rain, sunshine, the bursting of green grass and also the occasional dump of snow.

I live in (southern) California — where rain, if that, is all we get — so I find snow and the thought of cozy fires inside so magical.

The combination of melting snow and cold wet rains makes our country living messy for a few weeks.

It's the depth of winter here in Indianapolis, with lots of gray skies, snow and rain.

After a long winter of snow and cold weather, I forget how much I enjoy the sound of the rain drumming against the window panes and sloshing through the gutters.