Sentences with phrase «rain events increases»

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The researchers also looked at other extreme events, like the southeast Australian drought of 2006 and the rain events that led to widespread flooding in Queensland in 2010, to see whether they would occur more often as global temperatures increased.

The Midwest has seen a 37 percent increase in the amount of rain falling in heavy precipitation events since the late 1950s, the second - highest increase in the U.S. over that period.

Growers can manage the potential risks linked to extreme rain events and soil degradation by using adaptive strategies such as planting cover crops, using no - till techniques, increasing the biodiversity of grasses and forage and extending crop rotations, Prokopy said.

Warmer weather may increase the frequency of an unusual climatic condition called a rain - on - snow event, says earth system scientist Jaakko Putkonen of the University of Washington, Seattle.

But overall, the simulations showed a small but significant increase in likelihood of extremely heavy rain events for the south of England.

Many people are very worried, even scared, about abrupt climate change causing extreme weather events like torrential rains with floods, droughts, high winds, etc. increasing in severity, duration, frequency and impact.

Heat waves are hotter, heavy rain events are heavier, and winter storms have increased in both frequency and intensity.

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Birds that get too hot or cold can be at risk for fatal illness if they aren't able to get to the proper shelter — add other weather events like rain, hail, and lighting... MORE to the mix and the risk is increased even further.

We know that precipitation intensity has been increasing (the amount of rain that falls in the most intense events) across the northern hemisphere — this was clear in the literature even before the Pall et al paper.

Confidence in the latter is not related to TC intensity or frequency; it comes from the probable increase in heavy rain events and the inevitable rise in sea level that will make it easier for storm surges to go inland.

The increase in rainfall intensity (shift in distribution of rain from more light events to fewer heavy events) as a consequence of global warming is a robust feature of GCMs.

References Goswami, et al., 2006,» Increasing Trend of Extreme Rain Events Over India in a Warming Environment», Science, 1 December 2006: Vol.

The authors commented, «These findings are in tune with model projections and some observations that indicate an increase in heavy rain events and a decrease in weak events under global warming scenarios.»

I suspect that although currently the probability of lethal wet bulb temperatures, or catastrophic rain events are very low, because of the shapes of the curves and «the Statistical parameters are surprisingly predictable, and weather statistics is systematically influenced by the physical conditions present» that their relative increase and risk are much higher than most people appreciate.

Projected changes in climate, including an increase of droughts and less frequent, more intense rain events, imply that this phenomenon may make peat bogs into larger sources of methylmercury to downstream water resources and ecosystems.

Consistent with earlier research, six of the top 10 states with the biggest increases in number of days with heavy downpours are in the Northeast, including Rhode Island, Maine, and New Hampshire, which have seen the number of heavy rain events in the last decade increase by at least 50 percent compared to the 1950s.

NOAA data also shows an increase in one - day precipitation events (single days of either rain or snow) since the middle of the 20th century.

The tendency towards increased magnitude of extreme rain events (documented in the historical record and projected to continue in downscaling analyses) will cause an increased risk of waterborne disease outbreaks in the absence of infrastructure overhaul.

In weather systems, convergence of increased water vapor leads to more intense precipitation and the risk of heavy rain and snow events, but may also lead to reductions in duration and / or frequency of rain events, given that total amounts do not change much.

There has also been an increase in flooding events in the Midwest and Northeast where the largest increases in heavy rain amounts have occurred.

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.

The 2010 weather shocks are associated with not only an increase in the number of dengue cases but also with a decrease in its incidence (particularly in the presence of extreme rain events).

Heat waves, droughts, and intense rain events have increased in frequency during the last 50 years, and human - induced global warming more likely than not contributed to the trend.

This warming, in turn, has melted ice, raised sea levels, and increased the frequency of extreme weather events: heat waves and heavy rains, for example.

The heaviest rainfall events have become heavier and more frequent, and the amount of rain falling on the heaviest rain days has also increased.

The tree rings showed that huge swaths of southern China, Mongolia and surrounding areas consistently dried up in the year or two following big events, while mainland southeast Asia got increased rain.

Extreme rain events, meanwhile, are projected to become more intense — as are periods of severe drought, with the report predicting drought periods would increase over southern Australia, and possibly elsewhere in the country, with a greater frequency of severe droughts.

They estimate that there has been a (roughly) 18 - percent increase in the intensity of extreme rain events along this stretch of the Gulf Coast since the late 1800s.

[18] There has also been a 40 percent increase in number of five - year rain events, extreme events that have only a 20 percent chance of occurring in any given year.

In Connecticut, the risk for contracting a stomach illness while swimming significantly increased after a one inch precipitation event, 49 and studies have found associations between diarrheal illness among children and sewage discharge in Milwaukee.50 More frequent heavy rain events could therefore increase the incidence of waterborne disease.

There are plenty of much clearer ones, from increasing surface temperature (the global warming itself), to melting of ice on land and sea, to the long - term cooling of the stratosphere, increasing intensity of heavy rain events, etc..

The Gulf Coast is historically prone to hurricanes, but climate change has contributed to a greater intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes and an increase in the amount of rain produced by those events.

[1] Friederike E.L. Otto, Karin van der Wiel, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah F Kew, Peter Uhe and Heidi Cullen: Climate change increases the probability of heavy rains in Northern England / Southern Scotland like those of storm Desmond — a real - time event attribution revisited

These include increased average land and ocean temperatures that lead to reduced snowpack levels, hydrological changes, and sea level rise; changing precipitation patterns that will create both drought and extreme rain events; and increasing atmospheric CO2 that will contribute to ocean acidification, changes in species composition, and increased risk of fires.

Studies have shown that heavy precipitation events — both rain and snow — have been increasing in frequency and severity in the Northeast region in the past few decades.

They found that severe storms become more likely in the future, with a 50 % increase in the frequency of precipitation events of.80 inch (20 mm) or more of rain.

Because precipitation comes mainly from weather systems that feed on the water vapour stored in the atmosphere, this has generally increased precipitation intensity and the risk of heavy rain and snow events.

As temperatures increase, more rain falls during the heaviest downpours, increasing the risk of flooding events.

Droughts, heatwaves, heavy rain events, cyclones, storms: they just haven't increased in the alarmists assured us they would.

We know that precipitation intensity has been increasing (the amount of rain that falls in the most intense events) across the northern hemisphere — === Really, more precip?

The frequency of heavy precipitation events (or proportion of total rainfall from heavy falls) will be very likely to increase over most areas during the 21st century, with consequences for the risk of rain - generated floods.

In continental fluvial and coastal sections, changes in siliciclastic depositional facies reflect on increased frequency of high - energy events (e.g., extreme flooding), possibly from monsoon - like seasonal rains, and / or from unusually intense and / or sustained extra-tropical storms.

When driving during major inclement weather such as snow, ice, heavy rain, etc., you should increase your safe following distance to a minimum of 6 seconds (during extreme icing events, as much as 10 seconds is recommended).