Sentences with phrase «rainfall than in winter»
In summer and autumn the CSIRO projections were for smaller decreases in rainfall than in winter and spring, but the observed change was a substantial decrease: in fact, as large a decrease between the successive 11 - year periods as CSIRO projected on the high global warming scenario over the 40 - year period from 1990 to 2030.
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The winter has been remarkably dry through much of the UK, with less rainfall than in the months preceding the severe drought of 1976, which triggered water rationing and wild fires.
But other results were contrary to expectations, such as positive effects of higher than normal rainfall in wetter parts of the range and positive responses to winter warming, especially in milder areas.
Rainfall can occur at any time of year although in winter, eastern Germany, where temperatures are generally lower than in the west of the country, is more likely to experience snow.
There is also more intense rainfall in the warm tropics than the cooler extra-tropics, and summer precipitation is often more intense than in winter due to different physical conditions.
These assumed that the largest decreases in rainfall would be in winter and spring (decreases of 5 % and 11 % between 1990 and 2030 on the low and high global warming scenarios respectively), but rainfall was fractionally HIGHER in winter / spring in the more recent period (1995 - 2006) than in the previous 11 - year period.
During the last big abrupt cooling, 12,900 years ago, Europe cooled down to Siberian temperatures within a decade (about ten-fold greater than in the Little Ice Age), the rainfall likely dropped by half, and fierce winter storms whipped a lot of dust into the atmosphere.
Finds this reduction in winter rainfall along with an absence of very wet months led to a greater reduction in streamflow across the region than would be anticipated based on the 12 % reduction in mean annual rainfall alone
Winter rainfall in scattered eastern parts could peak at more than 30 % above current levels, and is likely to fall in heavy bursts.
Coral Springs has more rainfall in the spring and summer months, than in the winter months.