Sentences with phrase «precipitation amounts occurred»

High precipitation amounts occurred in the western prairies as well as the interior ranges of southeast BC (data courtesy of Environment Canada).

Not exact matches

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found that major flooding and large amounts of precipitation occur on 500 - year cycles in central China.

In other words, there is a tendency for rarer 1 - day annual extreme precipitation amounts to occur later in the temporal record.

Susan Anderson's NYT link: «The flooding in Louisiana is the eighth event since May of last year in which the amount of rainfall in an area in a specified window of time matches or exceeds the NOAA predictions for an amount of precipitation that will occur once every five hundred years, or has a 0.2 percent chance of occurring in any given year.»

On average in the United States, the amount of rain falling during the heaviest 1 percent of rainstorms has increased nearly 20 percent during the past 50 years — almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation.4, 5 The Midwest saw an even larger average increase of 31 percent, surpassed only by the Northeast (at 67 percent).4 Scientists attribute the rise in heavy precipitation to climate change that has already occurred over the past half - century.6

Figure 9.6: Maps show the increase in frequency of extreme daily precipitation events (a daily amount that now occurs just once in 20 years) by the later part of this century (2081 - 2100) compared to the latter part of the last century (1981 - 2000).

Figure 2.19: Maps show the increase in frequency of extreme daily precipitation events (a daily amount that now occurs once in 20 years) by the later part of this century (2081 - 2100) compared to the later part of last century (1981 - 2000).

Observations show that changes are occurring in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation.