Sentences with phrase «severe flooding particularly»

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However, in 2017, three episodes of severe flash floods have ravaged large agricultural areas of the country, particularly in the northern districts.

Large swathes of the city are sparsely populated, particularly in the poor neighbourhoods that suffered the most severe flood damage.

While western states, particularly California, often experience the most severe weather, including torrential rains, flooding, and mudslides, other states incur less obvious, but no less real, damage.

the continued flooding in the SW of England and Wales, particularly in Somerset (where the authorities advised 4 villages to be evacuated last night owing to severe flood risks): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26050452 http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/interesting/2013-decwind

With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.

They were particularly likely to mention changes in the weather, including increasing frequency of severe storms, droughts, floods and wildfires (45 % of those asked).

The effects of weather extremes on human health have been well documented, particularly for increased heavy precipitation, which has contributed to increases in severe flooding events in certain regions.

Examples of possible applications / users include: warnings of the likelihood of severe high impact weather (droughts, flooding, tropical and extratropical cyclones etc.) to help protect life and property; humanitarian planning and response to disasters; agriculture and disease planning / control (e.g., malaria and meningitis), particularly in developing countries; river - flow and river - discharge for flood prediction, hydroelectric power generation and reservoir management; landslides; coastal inundation; transport; power generation; insurance.

Before discussing tornadoes, it is important to note that it is scientifically uncontroversial to conclude that climate change is causing more violent weather particularly in the form of: (a) more damaging thunder storms, (b) the kind of devastating flooding we have seen this year in Australia, Pakistan, Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, along the Mississippi and the Tennessee valleys, and (c) more severe droughts such as those experienced this year in China, Brazil, and Texas.