Sentences with phrase «rain storm event»

Not exact matches

But this year's intense Atlantic storm season had another element tying its biggest events together: a monstrous, and sometimes deadly, amount of rain.

Rain is an event here, and everyone stops what they're doing to watch a storm roll in like a thick blanket over a twenty mile stretch.

And don't worry about getting rained out, thanks to the included rainfly to keep you dry and warm in the event of a storm or shower.

«Using lightning data to modify the air moisture was enough to dramatically improve the short - term forecast for a strong rain, wind and storm event,» said first author Ken Dixon, a former UW graduate student who now works for The Weather Company.

As heavy rains continue today, this storm may showcase the combined effect of a heavy rain event coupled with a prolonged storm surge.

A rare storm event in March saw parts of the bone dry Atacama Desert receive a year's worth of rain in just one day.

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

There was definitely a great turn out for the event and we were able to escape the rain storms.

A number of weather events that may occur in Texas can cause flooding, such as flash floods, heavy rains, tropical storms and hurricanes.

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.

While it is true that any one particular storm or weather event can not be attributed to climate change alone, unusual rain such as this is precisely the type of «global weirding» that climate scientists have predicted would occur as the climate warmed.

As Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology put it in a email not long ago: «One has to recognize that the human toll from hurricanes results from the most intense wind and rain events; the vast majority of storms do little or no damage.

Speaking of long chains of odd weather events, if you're in the U.S. today you may have noticed the single band of snow / sleet / rain storm that is stretching pretty much uninterrupted straight from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Dallas, Texas.

If the Chinese government can routinely create snow storms out of what should have been a rain event, how much more advanced must our government and the NATO powers be at this same process?

This airmass is also expected to be incredibly warm for a California precipitation event; freezing levels could be as high as 10,000 feet or even higher during the initial part of the storm, with rain (instead of snow) expected at even very high mountain locations.

Then there's just this record - breaking precipitation that we're seeing, which is also linked to warmer baseline temperatures, because when you have warmer temperatures, you have drought, but you also have these freak precipitation events, these big dumps, whether of storm when you think about Boston and those images of cars fully submerged in snow, or what's happening right now in Texas, where you're getting 10 months worth of rain in a period of days.

The question asked by the local water managers was whether the combination of the individual events (wet soil, heavy rain, storm surge) has a causal relationship, and whether the frequency of occurrence of compound events can be expected to change in the future.

But this year's intense Atlantic storm season had another element tying its biggest events together: a monstrous, and sometimes deadly, amount of rain.

Two recent events contrast existing vulnerability to extreme events: Hurricane Irene, which produced a broad swath of very heavy rain (greater than five inches in total and sometimes two to three inches per hour in some locations) from southern Maryland to northern Vermont from August 27 to 29, 2011; and Hurricane Sandy, which caused massive coastal damage from storm surge and flooding along the Northeast coast from October 28 to 30, 2012.

He says average rainfall for Australia will decrease, but the extreme weather events will be on the rise, so while you might get less rain over the year it will come in the form of damaging storms and stronger winds which feel like so - called freak events.

How human influence affected other types of events such as droughts, heavy rain events, and storms was less clear, indicating that natural variability likely played a much larger role in these extremes.

[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

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.

A powerful storm system, which the National Weather Service called a «nearly 1 in a thousand year event» [1] brought as much as 8 to 10 inches of rain in six to eight hours in parts of West Virginia, killing at least 23 people.

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

Here is an excerpt of the research paper, «When It Rains It Pours», from Environment America, showing a statistically significant spike in flash flooding and other extreme precipitation events since 1948: «Weather records show that storms with extreme precipitation have become more frequent over the last 60 years.

Global warming is causing more intense rain and snowstorms in the United States, and making extreme events such as the January 2016 snow storm that crippled most of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast more likely.

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.

Wilmington businesses need commercial property insurance and business interruption coverage for costs related to heavy rain, severe storms and other unexpected events.

In general, these two levels of coverage will take effect in the event of a hurricane, storm, hail or wind damage, sleet, ice, snow or rain damage, damage caused by negligence of others such as fire damage, smoke damage or flooding damage as well as damage intentionally caused by other people such as theft, vandalism and riots.

While this city rarely experiences tornadoes, it has a high rate of other natural disasters, including hurricanes, storms, blizzards, heavy rains and other events that have caused extensive damage.

The city also has a higher - than - average rate of damaging weather events like heavy rains, winter storms and even hurricanes.

Mount Vernon renters insurance provides you with compensation in the event of a number of perils including volcanic ash damage, storm, wind, rain or hail damage and hurricane damage.

This city is also susceptible to damaging severe weather events like heavy rains, winter storms and even hurricanes.

Our Expertise is Cheap Homeowners Insurance In Florida From natural disasters like, rain, storm, flood to theft and fire, many homeowners rely on their homeowner insurance policy to protect their belongings and properties from damages that may occur due to these unexpected events.

Some situations that occur in flood - prone areas include: 1) the diameter of the sewer pipe is not sufficient to hold all of the water flow during a heavy storm event; 2) the gradient of the sewer pipe is not steep enough to allow water flow at the same rate as the rain; and 3) heavily paved areas do not allow water to absorb into the ground, forcing more water into sewers.

Southwest defines it as «acts of God, meteorological events, such as storms, rain, wind, fire, fog, flooding, earthquakes, haze, or volcanic eruption.»