Sentences with phrase «severe than the weathering»

As soon as they come up, these meteorites do begin to get weathered and oxidized, but it's much less severe than the weathering that occurs in meteorites found in hotter or wetter environments.

Not exact matches

Severe weather has slammed parts of the country, forcing some travelers to spend more holiday time in airports than planned.

Severe weather in March, dubbed the Beast from the East, sent sales plunging more than 20 per cent, offsetting encouraging gains in January and February after changes were made to stores, product range and pricing at BUKI's 227 remaining Homebase stores and 23 new - format Bunnings stores.

With bettors bailing on the Cowboys, severe weather everywhere and extremely low NFL totals, this weekend is looking more like an episode of «The Twilight Zone» than a collection of sporting events.

For the first time in more than a week, Western New York is free of any severe weather warnings and advisories.

This was driven by a combination of our consistently high operating performance and reduced impact from severe weather than in 2011.

NOAA's weather satellites supply more than 90 percent of the data that go into daily and long - range forecasts, and they are critical in providing alerts of severe weather potential multiple days in advance.

Paradoxically, the study shows that severe winter weather in the western United States is more likely when the Arctic is colder than normal.

Performing experimental weather forecasts using the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, researchers have gained a better understanding of the conditions that cause severe hail to form, and are producing predictions with far greater accuracy than those currently used operationally.

But a new analysis of more than six decades of daily temperature and snowfall data by Cohen and his team suggests arctic heat waves may actually be linked to severe cold weather at lower latitudes... perhaps through the polar vortex.

Richard Hignett, 32, from Bedfordshire shot himself through the foot with his crossbow which he had intended using to kill his mother and father before Every region in the UK was under one or more severe weather warnings as the storm brought more than a foot of snow

Captain Henry (Domhall Gleeson, Brooklyn, 2015), who respects Glass's contributions, has his men haul Glass rather than leave him to die, but the severe weather and mountainous terrain make this nearly impossible.

once the car exceeds 59.9 mph the warning light comes on and AWD disengages... returning to RWD... because its a pretentious and fragile quasi AWD system not meant for Winter or Severe weather driving... engineered as a marketing device for the uninformed rather than for function.

Flooding, in particular, has caused home insurance claims to soar, with payouts due to severe weather doubling every five to 10 years since the 1980s — from less than $ 100 million a year to over $ 3 billion a year in just three decades.

I assume that some pet owners believe that they are «just dogs» and therefore are able to handle more severe weather conditions than humans.

Because of the infrequency of the most severe Sundowners, they probably play a less significant role in fire weather on the northern Channel Islands than do Santa Ana winds.

Three of his more recent paintings depict the severe weather experienced on the coast of southern China, but rather than being immersed in a Romantic J.M.W. Turner thunderstorm, Santoro and his viewers gaze out from a high rise window in Hong Kong.

I will not declare success one month into a three month forecast, but I think that your readers will agree that since the severe weather so far this winter is consistent with my forecast, [this] makes the ideas that I expressed more compelling than if I had not made a forecast.

I'm no more a climate scientist than Lomborg, but even I begin to recognize his creative use of statistics — for example, not mentioning well - established severe weather increases, or creating a false dilemma between spending to combat global warming and spending to combat malaria.

It should be obvious that if stability and moisture were the main connections to severe convection, then summer (rather than spring) would be the season of most severe weather over the U.S..

However, the Polar sector will warm more than the Tropical sector, thus reducing the ZI and the potential for severe weather.

we do not have any more severe weather today than there was 150 years ago, or even 500 years, it is the reporting and many people living in harms way...

For the most part, Smith hasn't had to address the climate issue back home, even though polls show that a majority of his adult constituents believe human activity is causing global warming and Texas has suffered more severe climate and weather disasters since 1980 than any other state.

Well, now, IF IPCC concedes - that ECS is very likely 1.6 - 1.7 C - that expected warming by 2100 is projected to be around 1C rather than 2 - 6C, as previously estimated)- that the model - predicted changes in «severe weather» from AR4 are no longer likely to occur, as a result.

Weather seems to be quite random and chaotic although we can discern some truths, one of which is that we've seen it all before and the other that severe weather - storms etc - seemed to be much worse during the LIA than they are toda.

The weather phenomenon tends to bring higher than usual rainfall and more severe storms to the west coast, resulting in flooding.

Certainly weather patterns are more severe than they have been in the past.

But it's hard to see how an insurance company can have had more success than «the world's 2500 top climate scientists» at isolating the effect of climate change on the occurrence of severe weather events.

It's certainly hard to see how an insurance company can have had more success than «the world's 2500 top climate scientists» at isolating the effect of climate change on the occurrence of severe weather events.

Thus we might have expected any signal of such an event in the simulations to be more prominent and easier to detect than if we had investigated less severe and / or shorter lived weather phenomena.

Dangerously hot weather is already occuring more frequently than it did 60 years ago — and scientists expect heat waves to become more frequent and severe as global warming intensifies.

Admiral Locklear: «Certainly weather patterns are more severe than they have been in the past.

18 years of no significant rise in temperature while CO2 was poured into the atmosphere at an accelerating rate, the earth got greener, and severe weather didn't increase... the question has become whether CO2 causes more harm than good.

Colorado State University Prof. Roger Pielke, who studies the societal impacts of severe weather, said: «There have always been ups and downs and severe events, but as a nation, we are far more vulnerable than ever before.»

Right now it seems that: It's more likely that Summer Arctic Sea Ice extent will disappear before 2025 It's more likely that 2 C will occur nearer to 2033 than 2040 It's more likely that 4 C will occur closer to 2050 than 2100 It's more likely that more people will die from heat stress, disease, or severe clean water and food shortages than extreme weather events.

The oceans are rising; mountain glaciers are retreating; polar sea ice is melting; the very timing of the seasons is changing, and erratic and severe weather is more common than just a few years ago.

Last month, for instance, NASA partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to launch the GOES - R satellite, which will map hurricanes, blizzards, and other severe weather in far more detail than previously available.

The mid-latitude cyclones that form as wave like patterns and migrate along the Polar Front, are major storm systems that occur more frequently and can impact much larger areas than any other severe weather system.

For larger values of PCH (PCH > +1), the likelihood of severe weather increases, with correlations peaking when the PCH is greater than +1.5.

Arkansas experiences severe weather events such as tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes more often than most states.

Property insurance rates in Natick may be higher than average due to an increased risk for damaging severe weather and other natural disasters.

The only downside is the unpredictable weather than can deliver severe thunderstorms, occasional tornadoes and heavy snowfall.

Business insurance rates in Winthrop may be higher than in other cities because the area is susceptible to costly damage from severe weather and other natural disasters.

Insurance rates in Shrewsbury may be higher than in other cities because of an increased risk for property damage due to severe weather and other natural disasters.

Refund of golf course fees if a golf course on your itinerary is closed due to inclement weather with less than 24 hours» notice (excellent for sudden tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, etc..)

The set limit for insurance in MI is 20,000 / 40,000 / 10,000 and although that is the minimum drivers in the state normally get more than the minimum coverage since Michigan can have severe weather during the winter season.

2009 was Colorado's most costly severe weather season adding up to more than $ 1.4 billion in insured losses with one July storm ranking as the state's most expensive insured disaster in actual insurance claims paid out with insured losses totaling $ 767.6 million in claims ($ 850.8 million in 2015 dollars).

According to a 2012 survey from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), more than half of Americans don't have a home inventory of their possessions, putting them at risk for inadequate home insurance coverage, should severe weather strike.

For example, your vacation home may have lower contents coverage needs than your primary residence, but it may be in an area more prone to severe weather events or it may sit empty for several months out of the year.

With higher rates of crime and severe weather events, commercial property insurance rates may be higher than in other cities.