Sentences with phrase «of rain storms»

In fact, the biggest of all rain storms, the hurricane, is something that Floridians expect and prepare for every year.

United Press International reported that the reservoir had risen 26 feet in 12 days, thanks to a succession of rain storms.

We know that these kinds of rain storms and flooding will become more frequent and severe with global warming.

Through all of the rain storms all of the wind and all of the elements and other animals raccoons, possums and an occasional Fox or two not one drop of water has ever gotten into the shelters and you can tell because the towel is never wet or even damp in any way.

As such, determining the role of climate change in increasing or decreasing the present and future likelihood of a rain storm like Harvey presents a challenge.

(One complaint I had about the 1997 paper was that it completely neglected the cooling effect that evaporation has on rain, which is strongest at the onset of a rain storm because the humidity is lowest then.

Turned out, the roof was falling apart and I remember my husband poking holes with a screwdriver to allow the water to pour out into pails on our floor in the middle of a rain storm.

Not exact matches

A trained person can look at a series of radar images and see how the storm is moving and evolving, which areas are increasing or decreasing in intensity, and where the rain is headed.

While Harvey is technically packing less of a wallop as a tropical storm, heavy rains are still drenching parts of southeastern Texas and neighboring southwestern Louisiana, complicating rescue missions and compounding the misery for millions of Americans.

The remnants of the storm which had lashed the South Pacific brought cloud cover and heavy rains to the region, cooling the ocean enough to stop bleaching that had just begun in the south.

Forecasters predict that Hurricane Harvey could slam the Texas coast right before the weekend as a Category 3 storm, bringing winds in excess of 125 mph and dumping more than 25 inches of rain.

On Tuesday, a rain gauge near Highlands, Texas registered 51.88 inches of rainfall — breaking the record for most rainfall from a single storm in the entire continental US.

Palestinian rescuers members evacuate a man from a flooded home using a fishing boat during a heavy rain storm in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 (AP Photo / Khalil Hamra) In the time since the operation, the army and government have put into practice some, but not all, of the recommendations made by Shapira in his reports.

The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday afternoon said a record 51.88 inches (131.78 cm) of rain has fallen in Texas due to Harvey, a record for any storm in the continental United States.

The idea of «shedding» rain is handy when you bike over the Golden Gate Bridge in a storm.

The storm passed just to the north of the island of Hispaniola, shared by Dominican Republic and Haiti, causing some damage to roofs, flooding and power outages as it approached the impoverished Haitian side, which is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes and rain, although it did not make landfall.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, drove toward Florida on Friday as it lashed the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, leaving behind at least 21 deaths and a swath of destruction.

But existing models of water flows don't provide the full range of possible outcomes: «A 50 - year rain can produce a 100 - year flood if it falls on a watershed that's already soaked or on snowpack or if it coincides with a storm surge.»

NPR and PBS have been reporting on the island's difficult post-Maria recovery, and have painted a picture of a «perfect storm,» mostly financial in making, that had pushed Puerto Rico to the brink long before the winds and rain swept in.

Parts of Puerto Rico are expected to receive up to 20 inches of rain and dangerous storm surges.

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.

Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, churned across northern Caribbean islands on Wednesday with a catastrophic mix of fierce winds, surf and rain, en route to a possible Florida landfall at the weekend.

As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.

Some areas in Puerto Rico are expected to see 20 inches of rain and 6 to 9 feet of dangerous storm surge (often the most deadly component of a hurricane).

Tropical Storm Amelia brought a recorded 48 inches of rain.

But don't focus so much on the category number, which is determined solely by wind speed: It's the combination of wind, storm surge, rain, flooding, and even the possibility of tornadoes that are the biggest concern for much of the Florida peninsula.

The remnants of Hurricane Harvey (once a Category 4 storm) have dumped feet of rain on the city.

When Hurricane Irma was advancing toward Florida in early September, weather officials were looking at a very scary scenario: an extremely powerful Category 4 or 5 storm hitting with 150 mph winds, flooding rains, and up to 15 feet of storm surge for coastal cities like Miami and Tampa.

Parts of Puerto Rico saw more than 30 inches of rain during the storm.

The Category 3 storm lashed the northern coast of the Dominican Republic with heavy rain and 115 - mph winds.

While it's hard to say if the punishing number and intensity of storms were due to climate change, climate scientists have now determined — in two separate research efforts — that Hurricane Harvey's record - blasting rains (best measured in feet for much of Houston) were likely amplified by climate change.

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

The tropical storm formerly known as Hurricane Harvey continues to dump copious amounts of rain on the Houston area.

Harvey dumped more than 4 feet of rain on Houston, setting a new record for the greatest amount of rain recorded from a single tropical storm or hurricane in the continental United States.

Kapnick noted that even individual rain storms can be overwhelming, like storm that drenched Baton Rouge last year with 31.39 inches of rain and three times the volume of water of Hurricane Katrina throughout Louisiana in 2005.

The total volume of rain is easier to calculate when a storm remains over a fixed area, but it much harder to suss out when hurricanes remain mobile and dump water over a wide swath of land and ocean.

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In Corpus Christi, the major city closest to the storm's center, wind whipped palm trees and stinging sheets of horizontal rain slapped against hotels and office buildings along the seawall as the storm made landfall.

And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for days and unload more than 40 inches (100 centimeters) of rain on cities, including dangerously flood - prone Houston, the nation's fourth - largest.

A powerful dust storm and rain swept parts of north and western India overnight, causing house collapses, toppling trees and leaving at least 91 people dead and more than 160 injured, officials said Thursday.

More than 340 people have been airlifted to safety after nearly 30 inches of rain hit the Hawaiian island of Kauai, with another storm on its way.

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[40] August, 1955 - Hurricanes Connie and Diane both cause as much as 10 inches (250 mm) of rain and tropical storm force winds.

Sometimes it's enough to have the simple, causal, often mechanical answers that the razor allows as sufficient: the river overflowed because heavy storms dropped ten inches of rain in a forty - eight hour period just as the snow was melting.

The poor that oppressed the poor is like a man trying too gather grain in a driveing rain storm, islam religion when I see these same country poor opperressing the poor by breaking up store shops turning over cars and setting cars on fire of the poor really sad

It reminds me of the line in «Sylvester and the Magic Pebble» when he wishes for the storm to stop and it says, «the rain ceased.»

If a storm negatively impacts human life it is «part of a fallen world,» but if it is just a rain storm that brings water to some thirsty plants it is just normal or a «blessing»?

The eye of the storm on Thursday morning was a short distance north of Puerto Rico where lashing rains and strong winds have already left 900,000 people without power.

But if you have built you life on Jesus Christ, and obedience to His Word, when the storm comes, no matter how severe it is, no matter how the winds rage, no matter how the torrents of rain fall, no matter how high and violent the river gets, you will stand strong.

Theology (at least as I do it) is hardly serene, self - generated, or in control; it is barely able to get the ship in before the unexpected storm, or the clothes in out of the rain — and it is always gasping for breath!