Sentences with phrase «powerful weather system»

This rising heat and the moisture form a powerful weather system, a natural pump that pulls up water and moves it in vast quantities hundreds of miles to the mainland.

The «perfect storm,» as awed climatologists dubbed it, was caused by the unusual alignment of three powerful weather systems that mixed over the Atlantic.

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Instead of a weather system, the title refers to the rain of space debris that Earth has endured throughout much of its history — including the powerful collision that formed the moon (SN: 4/15/17, p. 18).

The maelstrom is centered within the planet's powerful jet stream, which marks out a peculiar, hexagonal weather system large enough to swallow four Earths.

It is generally steady and strong in spring, but in summer it occasionally twists into a convection storm — a small, circular weather system that can direct brief but powerful gusts at the ground.

The largest of these eruptions cause what is known as space weather — the radiation, energetic particles and magnetic field releases from the Sun powerful enough to cause severe effects in Earth's near environment, such as the disruption of communications, power lines and navigations systems.

On October 30, 1991, a dying hurricane off the east coast of the U.S. collided with two other weather systems, resulting in «The Perfect Storm» — the most powerful storm in recorded history.

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During the Winter of 2015 - 2016, this warm air slot has also been the breeding ground for very unstable weather and a number of powerful storm systems.

What is the evidence that the growing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are changing weather systems in such a way that hurricanes become more powerful, or more frequent?

«We're very much about trying to build a strong and powerful and good economy,» Podesta said Friday, «but that will come through investments in cleaner energy systems, not in reliance on the systems that we've had in place, which are now increasingly burdening our economy through these losses in agriculture, in forestry, in extreme weather losses, in storm surges, in sea - level rise.»

This year's powerful El Niño weather system brought Northern California about 130 percent of normal precipitation, but only about 60 percent of normal in the heavily populated Southern California coastal plain.

Because the temperature contrast between the frigid Arctic and the milder mid-latitudes is what drives the powerful jet stream winds that guide weather systems, what happens in the Arctic is bound to have some sort of influence on the world's weather.

The case for a connection between Arctic warming and summertime extreme weather events rests on the Arctic's crucial role as a pacesetter and shapemaker of the jet stream, the powerful ribbon of upper level winds that steer weather systems from west to east across the Northern Hemisphere.

Its dramatic vistas are enhanced by powerful, dynamic weather systems.