All three municipalities are under consent orders to fix aged and inadequate wastewater systems that often discharge raw, or partially treated, sewage into area creeks and streams during heavy rains or
rapid snow melts.
Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said, «With increased precipitation and
rapid snow melt, record water flows through major tributaries upstream and downstream of the lake, water is high throughout the Great Lakes system.
Fortunately, the flooding from
rapid snow melt did not cause a catastrophe.
Warmer minimum temperatures can lead to more
rapid snow melt when overnight temperatures rise above the melting point.
Climate change is already causing more extreme weather events and
rapid snow melt — two events known to trigger flooding in the Columbia River system.
While some floods are caused by tropical storms and hurricanes, many more occur as a result of thunderstorms and heavy rains,
rapid snow melt and breaches of levees or dams.
Not exact matches
Scientists agree that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 levels could result in temperature increases of between 1.5 and 4.5 °C, caused by
rapid changes such as
snow and ice
melt, and the behaviour of clouds and water vapour.
However, I don't agree that Al Gore is sensationalizing hurricanes — what Gore is saying is certainly in the realm of possibilities, and although Gore's general message is dead on (and I do think is being confirmed by events such as
rapid arctic
melting), I don't expect 100 % certainty in his predictions (especially since it seems that the lessening of
snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro isn't due to global warming.
«That means that reducing emissions of these climate pollutants would provide
rapid climate benefits, especially in the Arctic where black carbon pollution accelerates the
melting of ice and
snow,» said Erika Rosenthal, the Earthjustice attorney who was part of the author team for the UNEP / WMO assessment.
Dynamics of a continental glacier are a slow build up as
snow layers accumulate, followed by a relatively
rapid melt as
snow turns to rain.
Scientists: Warming causes Antarctic ice sheet growth, and lower sea levels By Kenneth Richard While many scientists are projecting
rapid sea level rise as a result of a warmer Antarctica and consequent ice sheet
melting, other scientists are projecting that the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet will gain in mass because a warmer Antarctica means
snow and ice accumulation will outpace the -LSB-...]