Sentences with phrase «rain than storms»

Human - caused climate change caused the storm to drop significantly more rain than storms would have before atmospheric carbon dioxide levels spiked from the consumption of fossil fuels, according to research published yesterday.

Not exact matches

Forecasters predict that Hurricane Harvey could slam the Texas coast right before the weekend as a Category 3 storm, bringing winds in excess of 125 mph and dumping more than 25 inches of rain.

As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.

Parts of Puerto Rico saw more than 30 inches of rain during the storm.

Harvey dumped more than 4 feet of rain on Houston, setting a new record for the greatest amount of rain recorded from a single tropical storm or hurricane in the continental United States.

And they dreaded the destruction that was yet to come from a storm that could linger for days and unload more than 40 inches (100 centimeters) of rain on cities, including dangerously flood - prone Houston, the nation's fourth - largest.

A powerful dust storm and rain swept parts of north and western India overnight, causing house collapses, toppling trees and leaving at least 91 people dead and more than 160 injured, officials said Thursday.

More than 340 people have been airlifted to safety after nearly 30 inches of rain hit the Hawaiian island of Kauai, with another storm on its way.

P.S. nothing is better than sitting quiet, taking in a good rain storm (besides listening to your lover's heart beat).

A new study confirms that thunderstorms are linked to outbreaks of asthma, and researchers suggest that the storms» airflow patterns are to blame rather than other contenders such as thunder, electrical activity, or rain.

When it comes to flash flooding, the amount of rain that falls over a period of time is much more important than the total volume of rainfall that a given storm delivers.

The eight - day storm dumped more than 17 inches of rain, causing the Platte River to reach flood levels higher than ever recorded.

The results perplexed the team initially as the answers were turning out to be more complicated than they originally postulated — the storm was more violent in terms of both wind and rain.

The final totals on rainfall and damage wrought by this unprecedented storm are yet to be determined, but more than 50 inches of rain fell in parts of southeast Texas.

The storm was starting with rain, so it was darker than normal.

We did get caught in a rain storm our first afternoon which made the little white sundress less than desirable.

Sioux Falls received more than 13 inches of rain in June — almost 11 inches more than average, making the recent storm the state's third - highest one - day rainfall.

And the part of Illinois that includes Decatur has more freezing rain and ice storms than any other part of the state.

It's the wettest tropical storm ever recorded in the contiguous United States, dumping more than 40 inches of rain in just four days.

Santa Barbara — the stunning seaside enclave known as The American Riviera — has weathered its recent fire and rain storms with a community spirit that is stronger than ever.

Nothing is more exhilarating than the fury of the wind, rain and waves during a winter storm.

Intervals between hurricanes (winds greater than 65 knots, high tides, storm surges and heavy rain) vary from between 3 to 6 years.

In others, temperatures are warming up and rain storms are far more common than snow.

My experience with Microsoft's wonder console does little to change what so many people already know: The Xbox 360 is more fragile than paper - mâché in a rain storm.

Flash forward to yesterday and I'm sitting in a room with a group of friendly Nintendo reps in downtown Washington DC being told that Wii Music is a game with more depth than the Atlantic and yet also the shallowness of a puddle after a light rain storm.

Finally it is as fact of weather hurricanes for, out in the Atlantic moving from the Coast of Africa it» been that way for maybe 5 million years or so but post-Katrina any collection of clouds anywhere near North America supposedly can magically create an eye for itself begin spinning frantically and yes go from being a rain storm to a HURRICANE but luckily than God not one of them has yet become a hurricane.

In October, more than 100 people died as two storms — one from the Pacific and the other from the Caribbean — pounded Central America with rain.

The storm delivered winds up to 130 miles per hour and dumped more than 50 inches of rain on parts of Texas.

But in the face of mild Pacific storms that brought rain instead of snow, as well as drier - than - average conditions and a record - warm winter, the snow cover stood at just 5 % of average on April 1, by far the lowest level ever recorded.

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.

Changes to the NAO may be delaying the arrival of these storms over recent decades, meaning the heaviest rain arrives in December rather than October, the study says.

And even earlier, in 1909 before hurricanes were named, a storm dropped more than 96 inches of rain on Jamaica.

«The spring months have sometimes storms of wind and thunder even so early as March within these last years the Climate seems to be greatly changed the summer so backward with very little rain and even snow in winter much less than usual and the ground parched that all summer have entirely dried up...»

Storms around Houston are producing more rain than they used to.

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.

Earth and earthlings... we live life on the littoral, Earth's great continents adrift in a world awash with seas, crested waves rifting their shores, fugitive mists, winds, rain, storms we can't predict more than a day or so out, human sapiens, other critters, vegetable life, evolving in Darwinian mutating ways; Planet Earth, viewed from space, like a snapshot from the gods, a shimmering orb netted in a cloud haze.

This vacuum - cleaner effect allows the storm to pull in more material to work with than it would have without the urban aerosols, and more rain results.

[8] Rain - on - snow - producing atmospheric river storms are, on average, only 2 °C warmer than others storm types that preserve snow pack.

Scienceofdoom disagreed with me about that on the ground that the hydrological cycle is closed, but it seemed obvious to me that if the rain is cooler at the beginning of a storm than in the middle it will cool the ground, which K&T don't take into account.

These artificial rain storms allegedly covered 42 percent more land area, and the rain output was 137 percent more and produced 120,885 acre - feet of rain at a cost of less than $ 11 per acre - foot.

The I'm - not - calling - it - a-friggin-Frankenstorm (aka Hurricane Sandy) is by all accounts, from the near hysteric mainstream media to the more sober yet appropriately serious, concerned (and usually more accurate than everyone else) folks at Weather Underground, a big deal, with potential devastating rain, wind, and high storm surges made worse by the coincidence with the full moon.

In a climate such as this you do not need to do much other than keep out the rain, except of course when the storms come.

In North Attleboro, the likelihood of sustaining property damage due to a natural disaster like a winter storm or heavy rain is higher than average.

The NFIP, operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, works with more than 90 private insurance carriers to provide flood insurance to cover damage that results from flash floods, hurricanes, winter storms or heavy rains.

The flood program, which FEMA administers, works with more than 90 private insurance carriers to provide flood insurance to cover damage that results from flash floods, hurricanes, winter storms or heavy rains.

According to the Department of Insurance, now would be a good time to review your existing homeowners insurance policy to make sure you have a good understanding of what is and isn't covered when torrential rain storms cause damage other than flooding from rising waters that consume your home.

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

This city has a higher - than - average history of natural disasters like storms, heavy rains and even hurricanes.

As long as you can protect against most frost, it's better for wine quality to get ready to Harvest a few weeks early than to be «rained out» by storms in October and November.