Sentences with phrase «on rain patterns»

When the scientists corrected for this La Niña effect on rain patterns in the past decade, they found that the slowdown in sea - level rise disappeared and fell in line with the 1994 - 2002 pace, coming to about 3.3 millimeters a year.

Not exact matches

Whilst the conditions outside (all grey skies and rain) are hardly conducive to the consumption of frozen desserts, it is summer here in the southern hemisphere and our fair city, infamous for her erratic weather patterns, could quite easily turn on the sunshine by the time afternoon rolls around.

In Chicago, where the Blitz has produced a crazily disparate attendance pattern, ranging from a mere 10,936 in a March rain and sleet storm to 32,182 against the Generals, the team has had four of its last five home games on TV and is averaging 19,323 at the gate.

With the effect of climate change, the irrigation dam comes in handy to enable citizens who are predominantly farmers to cultivate crops all year round without depending on the unregularly rain pattern.

The team had previously created a set of conceptual rules governing whether a pair was designated «sun» or «rain», based on the positions and combinations of the two patterns.

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.

For the most part, forecasts of its impacts on weather patterns were borne out, but forecasters fared relatively poorly in California, which relies on El Niños to deliver rains to parched areas.

«Although two degrees may not sound like a lot, the resulting deviation in temperature and rain patterns will have a significant effect on climate zones,» he adds.

The pair used data on winter rainfall collected during the 1980s and climate - predicting computer models to extrapolate future rain - on - snow patterns across the Northern Hemisphere.

They discovered that the frog eggs were picking up on the pattern of vibrations over time; rain and wind batter the egg clutches more or less continuously, but snakes have to take a break to chew.

At least over the oceans, the pre-industrial cloud conditions would have been considerably different from those of today; this implies that the aerosols we have been adding to the atmosphere may have had a significant effect on global patterns of cloud formation and rain.

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.

Gemstones might not seem so valuable if they literally rained from the sky, but that's thought to be a common weather pattern on ice giant planets.

As climate patterns become more unpredictable, rice farmers are relying on a modern way of to forecast the monsoon rains.

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If the outside temperature on the day of your accident was below 7 - 10 C, then «all - season» tires would generally be too hard at that temperature to grip properly and not have an aggressive enough grove pattern to deal with the rain.

Rain drops create concentric patterns in puddles, and sit in beads on the bodywork alongside flecks of vulcanized rubber sticking to the car's flanks.

Correlation is not causation; if you look hard enough for weird patterns, like «how's the market do when it rains on Tuesdays in the month of October» and check every day of the week, every month, etc., there will end up being some anomalies.

Although the direct heat increase is not enough to cause much climate change, the indirect influence of solar activity on cloud cover, wind and rain patterns may be large enough to have an important impact.

In 2009, in checking back on development patterns in the Amazon River basin, I examined this question: «Can Roads and Rain Forests Co-Exist?»

The unusual pattern of atmospheric high and low pressure over and around the Arctic that has contributed to the recent snow and cold from Alabama to Washington, to East Anglia, England (and rain and warmth along the west coast of Greenland) is also an important influence on the shifting sheath of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean.

I have noticed a few things, winter is greatly milder in most parts of the Arctic, dominant winds have equally changed there, rain or precipitation patterns seem out of whack pretty much everywhere else on Earth as well.

A lot of what the report covers is familiar, if grim, to people who haven't had their fingers in their ears for the past few years; ocean levels are rising, the water in those oceans is becoming more acidic, weather patterns are changing, we can expect more torrential rains in some locations and drought in others, and on and on.

Northwest: Relying on hydropower to provide 60 percent of its electricity generation means the Northwest is particularly susceptible to shifting rain, snowpack and runoff patterns.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

January 2017 was a stark exception, when a strong El Niño flipped the ridge - trough pattern, dumping record - breaking rain and snowpack on California while the east enjoyed a mild month.

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That's not a huge number, but, depending on how it effects other things like rain patterns, it could prove highly disruptive.

So the emphasis shifted to poleward shift of climate zones with particular emphasis on rain and desert belts moving such that agriculture is disrupted by great changes in precipitation patterns.

Let's look back on the past few months, to see how much February — April global temperature and rain patterns reflected those expected (temperature, rain) during La Niña!

With less energy falling on the Earth in general, the water cycle would change and as a result, rain and snowfall patterns would change and would create water winners and losers.

If they heard about the changing weather patterns affecting agriculture in India and actually cared about the livelihood of farmers there (who rely on steady rains) then would they move faster?

One storm would rain on one side of the neighborhood but not the other, but the next storm might reverse the pattern.

This is a strange pattern as there are no rains on the coast of Kerala and Karnataka,» says G Bala, a climate change expert at Indian Institute of Science's Divecha Centre for Climate Change based in Bangalore.