Sentences with phrase «rain and snow melt»

There are 40,000 dams over 30m all of which seasonally affect specific sea locations due mainly to them withholding specific events: rainy season flood or spring rain and snow melt.

Oneida County Executive Picente said, «We need to work on a viable, long - term solution to prevent the damage to homes and businesses that have come as a result of overbank flooding and rising groundwater coming from rain and snow melt.»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

A flood watch has been issued for the Chicagoland area from 3 a.m. to noon Thursday as forecasters are calling for possibly 1.5 inches of rain and temperatures warm enough for the snow to melt.

While the odds of flooding are lower than last week, when heavy rain fell and snow melted in 60 degree temperatures, the potential for ice jam flooding remains elevated.

All three municipalities are under consent orders to fix aged and inadequate wastewater systems that often discharge raw, or partially treated, sewage into area creeks and streams during heavy rains or rapid snow melts.

Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding -LSB-...]

Residents across New York may experience some flooding as the freezing rain and melting snow hits, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office is urging citizens to take precautions in case that occurs.

EPA Regional Director Judith Enck says every year heavy rains and heavy snow melt overwhelm the system causing nearly two billion gallons of raw sewage to flow directly into the Niagara River.

Snow melt and rain will cause many rivers and streams to rise, potentially breaking ice layers causing ice jams and localized flooding with water covered roads, especially in low lying areas and urban and poor drainage areas.

Debris left on roadsides is often washed by rain and melted snow into local waterways through storm drains or blown directly into streams and lakes.

A shorter period covered by snow, more spring rain and faster snow melt can combine to release large amounts of runoff that have the potential to stress urban hydrologic systems and cause flooding in urban areas.»

Precipitation was very important in the summer and the winter, when rains and melting snow boosted runoff and delivered nitrogen and phosphorus, which algae use as food sources, to the lake.

Researchers have evaluated different mechanisms that could account for declining snowpack in a warming world: earlier onset of snowmelt, a change in melt rates and shifts from snow to rain under certain conditions.

Rain falling on snow in fall or winter months can melt the snow and produce particularly sudden increases in stream flow.

Aquarius will be able to measure changes in salinity caused by evaporation, rain and snow, and melting sea ice.

Instead of gently percolating underground, rain water and melted snow can rush across these hardened surfaces, gaining enough power to erode loose sediments.

At a meeting of the Geological Society of America in Cincinnati, Ken Howard of the University of Toronto warned that the salt is not washed away by spring rains and melting snow as had always been assumed, but accumulates underground.

For decades, Los Angeles has guzzled far more of its water from melted snow in the Sierra Nevada mountain range and the Colorado River than from local, rain - fed rivers and aquifers.

Incessant mountain rain, snow and melting glaciers in a comparatively small region of land that hugs the southern Alaska coast and empties fresh water into the Gulf of Alaska would create the sixth largest coastal river in the world if it emerged as a single stream, a recent study shows.

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«The strong south air flow onto Greenland has produced warm air, rain instead of snow, and melting of snow that is in Nuuk,» Greenland's capital, Jason Box, a researcher with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, said by email.

The spring rains and melting snow make the earth and soil heavy, thick and damp.

Full disclaimer, I've never been a huge fan of snow — I hate getting wet, the gross slushes once it melts, and the annoyance of having to wear snow / rain boots.

The snow is FINALLY melting here in Portland (and for the next 10 days straight we'll have nothing but rain, rain, rain) and I could not be happier.

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In fact, nasty weather often makes for a better inspection - with pouring rain or melting snow we can better observe and report on active leaks and moisture penetration.

flooding can be caused not only through a strong rain and storm but also through melting snow.

What's in a typical policy: Flood insurance covers direct physical losses by flood and losses resulting from flood - related erosion caused by heavy or prolonged rain, coastal storm surge, snow melt, blocked storm drainage systems, levee dam failure or other similar causes.

The extra roof - top lounging deck acts as a generous porch roof that helps shield the doorway opening from dripping rain and melting snow.

The generous porch roof helps shield the doorway opening from dropping rain and melting snow.

Heat drives faster melts, deluge rains instead of snow, and more feedback.

«The snow has been melting because of the mild weather and last week we had several days of rain,» Nuuk Tourism manager Flemming Nicolaisen said.)

Striking how this blog talks about polar bears, hurricanes, melting glaciers, melting sea ice, disappearing frogs, intelligence estimates, the snows of Kilimanjaro, drought, famine, insect infestations, too much rain, lack of rain, and who knows what else, and links it all to AGW.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

The thickness of the sediment layer is a result of temperature, but also how much rain fell during the summer that changed the melt rate of the snow and ice.

This area has now become the cradle of Atlantic depressions, which over the past (and coming) weeks formed the one after the other, coursing for North Europe, bringing much rain, leading to a very mild month of January, melting snows and high river discharges and flooding in parts of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

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.

Similarly, the extra moisture provided incremental amounts to the heavy rains that ultimately led to flooding along the Mississippi and later, farther north, heavy rains and melting snows contributed to extensive flooding of the Missouri River.

Alpine runoff throughout the Pacific Northwest is increasing in the winter (Nov. - March), as more frequent rain on snow events enhance melting and reduce snow storage.

A declining ratio indicates that greater percentages of precipitation occur as rain instead of snow and / or that melt of winter snowpack is increasing.

the Greenland ice sheet has seen a small positive change in ice for this year, The unusual year is mainly down to heavy snow and rain in winter and a relatively short and intermittent summer melt season.

Scientists already know how climate change is impacting the Western United States — higher temperatures have translated to earlier spring snow melts, precipitation is falling more as rain instead of snow at higher elevations and there's reduced runoff and streamflow.

Hydro generation is 4.6 % of total generation and can only run when there is sufficient water from spring snow melt and rain water.

When the Earth is warm, when the oceans are warm, polar sea ice melts and provides moisture for clouds and rain and snow that does cool the Earth.

But the old roofs of houses had sections a couple or three feet wide with a crimp like ^ in the center and rounded or v crimps on the sides so that the pieces could be interlocked and (assuming they were installed correctly), would allow rain and melting snow to run off.

Winters are shorter, fewer cold records are set, more precipitation is falling as rain and less as snow — although whopper snowstorms are even more likely in some places — and snowpacks are shrinking and melting earlier.

The high temperatures and rain helped melt much of the low - elevation snow that feeds into the Columbia - Snake River system.