Sentences with phrase «shifted rain patterns»

The impacts of El Niño take a while to propagate around the globe, and people may continue to see effects of El Niño associated with shifted rain patterns such as droughts, floods and fires.

Explosive volcanoes such as Indonesia's Merapi (erupting here in 2006) have the potential to shift rain patterns Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

Depicting life in a not - too - distant future shaped by already present warming trends, the report warns that even 20 to 30 years from now, shifting rain patterns could leave some areas under water and others without enough water for drinking, irrigation or power generation.

Not exact matches

Weather patterns could shift, bringing drought to once fertile areas and heavy rains to fragile deserts that can not handle them.

This winter, areas across the globe experienced a shift in rain patterns due to the natural weather phenomenon known as El Niño.

The coupling between ocean and atmosphere isn't following the usual script, and the typical shifts in rain patterns haven't emerged.

However, if the rain patterns there shift as climatologists predict, torrential rains and longer - lasting floods could dramatically change the habitat, making it unsuitable for this and other monkey species.

There have been some bursts of westerlies and associated shifts in rain patterns, but the signs just haven't been strong enough to warrant an official declaration yet.

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The unusual pattern of atmospheric high and low pressure over and around the Arctic that has contributed to the recent snow and cold from Alabama to Washington, to East Anglia, England (and rain and warmth along the west coast of Greenland) is also an important influence on the shifting sheath of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean.

Shifting weather patterns bring more drought to some forests, more rain and flooding to others.

Northwest: Relying on hydropower to provide 60 percent of its electricity generation means the Northwest is particularly susceptible to shifting rain, snowpack and runoff patterns.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

There are also poleward shifts in the vast atmospheric patterns that control where rain falls.

So the emphasis shifted to poleward shift of climate zones with particular emphasis on rain and desert belts moving such that agriculture is disrupted by great changes in precipitation patterns.

This should translate into weather pattern changes, more snow and rain and more heat and seasonal shift.

If the prevailing rain pattern shifts farther to the west, that means the convection, cloud cover and precipitation all shift farther to the west.