Sentences with phrase «severe heatwave»

The most severe heatwave of this Angry Summer began around January 31 and continued until February 12, with the highest temperatures recorded from February 9 - 12.

A severe heatwave over large parts of Europe in 2003 extended from June to mid-August, raising summer temperatures by 3 to 5 °C in most of southern and central Europe (Figure 12.4).

(Predicted temperature anomalies for April through June of 2017 shows that a severe heatwave is on the way.

According to Rupp's models, such a severe heatwave is now 20 times more likely in a La Niña year than it was in the 1960s, when global temperatures were significantly cooler.

Wider areas, including the Netherlands, Germany, northern Italy and central Europe, were also hit by a severe heatwave in June that affected crop production.

A report from the World Bank, also published this week, paints a stark picture of a 4 °C warmer world riven by severe heatwaves, floods and droughts.

In recent years, Europe and North America have been hit by severe heatwaves, the effects of which are often most extreme in cities.

The stark report states that climate change has already increased the risk of severe heatwaves and other extreme weather and warns of worse to come, including food shortages and violent conflicts.

One is that, as regional climates change in response to ever - increasing combustion of fossil fuels, which then intensify the greenhouse gas ratios in the global atmosphere, cities in now - arid regions will suffer ever more severe heatwaves, even though their rural hinterlands may enjoy higher rainfall.

China also experienced one of the most severe heatwaves on record with respect to its geographical extent, duration and intensity.

Not exact matches

An underwater heatwave that bleached massive sections of the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 was so severe it immediately «cooked» some corals in the northern region, scientists say following the results of a major long - term study.

The researchers then looked at four key extreme Australian events — the Angry Summer 2012/13; the Coral Sea marine heatwave of 2016; the severe rain event in Queensland in 2010; and the 2006 drought in southeast Australia — to model how often similar events could occur under each scenario.

Several prominent marine heatwaves (MHWs)-- prolonged periods of anomalously high sea surface temperatures1 — have had severe impacts on marine ecosystems in recent years.

2017 saw record - breaking heatwaves in Chile, the Mediterranean, Southwest Asia and California, as well as continuing severe drought in East Africa and destructive floods in the Indian subcontinent, and a very active North Atlantic hurricane season.

For example, the kind of heatwaves we've seen in Europe — we had one in 2003 and 2006 — just how severe will they become and how frequent might they become?

«There have also been severe monsoon floods across South Asia, abnormally heavy rains in northern Europe, China, Sudan, Mozambique and Uruguay, extreme heatwaves in southeastern Europe and Russia, and unusual snowfall in South Africa and South America this year, the WMO said.»

It seems one of the factors was extraordinarily high food prices... Of course, there are many factors that determine food prices... On the supply side there have been some terrible weather events... floods, droughts, severe storms, wildfires, heatwaves, and??

«Climate change projections suggest that European summer heatwaves will become more frequent and severe during this century, consistent with the observed trends of past decades.»

They are: cloudburst events (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), prolonged droughts (1999 - 2002), historic river flooding (2010), tropical cyclones (1999, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011), severe urban flooding (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), heatwaves in spring (2006, 2007, 2010), snowmelt flooding (2005, 2007, 2010) and drought at sowing stage (2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011).

In the course of the last 15 years, governments and authorities the world over have been warned loudly and repeatedly that global warming could be accompanied by a greater risk of severe weather - related events: floods, heatwaves, ice storms, typhoons and droughts.

One of the key effects of climate change is that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and rainfall variations become more frequent and more severe.

Urban heat islands cause genuine warming in urban areas, and can contribute to serious health problems during the summer, as they can make heatwaves more severe.

Severe «snowmageddon» winters are very likely linked to the rapidly increasing polar temperatures, with deadly summer heatwaves and intense flooding probably also linked.

Global warming changes weather patterns, causing severe weather events, heatwaves, droughts and floods.

From increasingly frequent and severe types of extreme events that include heatwaves, coastal flooding and heavier downpours, the costs of climate change are becoming tangible throughout the country.

Professor Will Steffen from the Climate Council Of Australia said the «abnormal April» records highlights the impact climate change is having across the country, driving more severe and more frequent heatwave events that are lasting longer than ever before.

Severe extended heatwaves affected the most populous and economically developed part of China and caused substantial economic and societal impacts.

Many things like droughts, floods, severe storms, hurricanes, and even heatwaves may not change from global warming at all (and indeed, that's what the evidence indicates so far).

Other parts of the world suffered severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and droughts in 2008, while Arctic sea ice was once more observed to decline markedly, reaching during September its second - lowest historic extent.

In terms of severe weather, spring and summer are also the most significant periods of the year for Australia with increased risk for bushfire, tropical cyclones, heatwaves, and more frequent severe thunderstorms.

Aerial turbulence such as we've never seen, ice storms and heatwaves bringing severe drought whirled around the room as the potential excesses of global warming were exposed.

Severe drought plagued Europe in 2003, amplifying heatwave conditions that killed more than 30,000 people.

Allen, whose work has shown that global warming tripled the odds of the severe 2010 Russian heatwave and tripled the risk of the widespread flooding in England in 2000, says extreme weather can be linked to climate change given enough computer time.

Extreme weather events such as those which have recently devastated parts of Australia — heatwaves, floods and fires - are predicted to become more frequent and severe.

A new report by the Norwegian met office shows that precipitation in Europe has become more severe and more frequent, that winter rainfall has decreased over southern Europe and the Middle East and that there are more and longer heatwaves and fewer extremely cold days and nights.

Climate change is making hot days and heatwaves more frequent and more severe.

I'm surprised that the Bureau stopped at «severe» in their heatwave categories, and didn't jump the shark with «catastrophic» (like the bush fires), or even «calamitous», «apocalyptic» or «cataclysmic»!