Sentences with phrase «rainfall records»

Hidden within annual averages and expected variability are startling instances of new temperature and rainfall records in many parts of the world.

Hurricane Hiki held the previous record for 52 inches of rainfall recorded at Kanalohuluhulu Ranger Station.

With Denniston and Gonzales, Villarini examined historical rainfall records from a weather station near the cave.

A barrage of unusually intense early - autumn storm systems swept across the Pacific Northwest this weekend, bringing hurricane force winds and dumping enough rain to smash all - time monthly rainfall records from Seattle to Portland.

Several locations set new daily rainfall records for March 21 on Wednesday, including Santa Barbara.

60.54 inches in Groves, Texas (also more than the previous national Tropical Cyclone rainfall record set in 1978)

Climate Central's new analysis of 65 years of rainfall records at thousands of stations nationwide found that 40 of the lower 48 states have seen an overall increase in heavy downpours since 1950.

Hurricane Harvey has set what forecasters believe is a new rainfall record for the continental United States, officials said Tuesday.

Later, an East Coast Low in late April brought heavy rainfall to coastal New South Wales, Australia, resulting several daily and monthly rainfall records.

Ghosh and his colleagues report in their paper that by using data from fresh and archived shells, they can independently verify historical human rainfall records.

[21] All rainfalls totals from this storm are still preliminary and require review; but, if verified, this amount breaks not only the Texas state rainfall record but also the record for the remaining Lower 48 states.

[24] Bush Continental Airport broke its record for wettest calendar day by over five inches, receiving 16.07 inches of rain on August 27th, and Hobby Airport set a new two - day rainfall record with 23.06 inches August 26th - 27th, surpassing its previous record by nearly eight inches.

Hurricane Harvey broke Texas rainfall records when it hit, dumping large amounts of rain over the greater Houston area for about five days.

Local rainfall records go all the way back to 1879, so it's possible that Tuesday's storms produced the heaviest rainfall event in Pensacola in more than 130 years, even factoring in every hurricane that has hit north Florida during that time span.

Her team's continuous rainfall record shows a thousand - year period about 8,000 years ago when the Sahara became drier.

In the new study in ERL, researchers examined the observed rainfall record in the Gulf Coast region since 1880 to show that the intensity of extreme precipitation has increased substantially.

They were unable to find a complete and reliable published rainfall record for the entire watershed using ground - based measurements, so they analyzed rainfall data from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite.

The last time Fasullo thinks this may have happened was 1973 and 1974, based on an examination of Australian rainfall records.

Lamontagne (2014) analyzed California rainfall records, including the 107 year record at Oroville.

I'm in Oregon, where December has broken rainfall records east of the Cascades, and the Cascades themselves are deep in snow.

Among the other rainfall records set this month: least year - to - date precipitation (6.53 inches; historical average 16.03 inches; previous record 9.36 inches in 1917); driest consecutive 8, 9 and 10 months on record (7.25 inches 8.35 inches, and 9.17 inches respectively); and driest 12 months ending in July (15.16 inches, previous record 16.46 inches in 1925).

Daily rainfall records for February 20 were doubled in San Jose (1.87 inches) and San Francisco (2.16 inches).

These snail shells, which are made of calcium carbonate, could fill in gaps in historical rainfall records and help scientists understand the evolution of monsoons on the Indian subcontinent, he explained.

Ghosh and his colleagues report in their paper that by using data from fresh and archived shells, they can independently verify historical human rainfall records.

• Harvey lasted 117 hours as a named storm after Texas landfall, shattering the old record for named storm longevity after Texas hurricane landfall set by Fern (1971) at 54 hours • Harvey broke the tropical cyclone - generated United States rainfall record.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration & s Northwest River Forecast Center reported record - high temperatures at numerous locations and rainfall records at several locations in Washington State during the last two weeks of January.

Hidden within annual averages and expected variability are startling instances of new temperature and rainfall records in many parts of the world — weather extremes that would once be considered anomalies but that now risk becoming the new norm as the Earth heats up.

The Oct. 29 rainfall record for Central Park is 3.63 inches.

During an atmospheric river event in southern California on February 17 — 18, new rainfall records were set in Death Valley (0.65 inches) and Santa Barbara (4.16 inches).

At the UA, Tierney and Paul Zander teased out temperature and rainfall records from the organic matter preserved in the sediment layers.

Tropical Storm Harvey has set a rainfall record for tropical cyclones for the continental United States, with 49.32 inches of rain observed at a location southeast of Houston, the National Weather Service said on Tuesday.

Tierney and her colleagues also used their rainfall record to suggest ways current climate models can better replicate the Sahara's ancient climate and therefore improve projections of future climate.

Since trends in convective rainfall are not easily detected in daily rainfall records, or well - simulated by global or regional climate models, the researchers created a new tool to assess the effects of climate change on rainfall patterns and trends in dryland areas.

They matched acorn tallies with temperature and rainfall records.

If we were to argue that other events would require anomalous rainfall over Australia's interior basins comparable to that in 2010 - 11, then we could use the rainfall record to infer such sea level drops.

The researchers began their new work by reconstructing the rainfall record in Kolkata, India, an area at the edge of the core monsoon zone, during the 2009 Indian summer monsoon (ISM).

rainfall record a site Victoria.

By combining temperature and rainfall records, growth declines were found to be more common in the warmer, drier locations.