Sentences with phrase «storm activity in»

We have experienced another year of high storm activity in Alberta.

Residents of Caribbean islands and the coastal United States — including those still recovering from last year's storms — may need to brace themselves for another intense hurricane season, as forecasts predict «above average» Atlantic storm activity in 2018.

Results indicate potential predictability of seasonal variations in storm activity in areas strongly influenced by ETCs and with origins in the investigated teleconnections.

Tropical storm activity in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico has increased during the past 20 years.

If you were to inject SO2 into the Northern Hemisphere, the models show, you would reduce storm activity in the North Atlantic — probably because the injection would put the tropical jet stream on a collision course with the Atlantic hurricane main development region.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Center, which has updated its 2015 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook, there is a 90 % chance of a below - normal hurricane season and a lower chance of expected storm activity in the United States this year.

Jackson et al (2015) found that the slowdown could lead to increased storm activity in Central Europe.

One such sequence involves a daring gambit to instantly lower the pressure within a shopping mall, creating a vacuum from a giant skylight, and another is the climactic chase, which features a trio of semi-trucks, some leaping and hanging on to the vehicles, and a wall of apocalyptic storm activity in pursuit.

Those unexpectedly warm waters were what caused some of the seasonal forecasts to slightly underestimate the amount of storm activity in the Atlantic, Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher and seasonal forecaster at Colorado State University, wrote at the Capital Weather Gang blog.

The end of November means that both the Atlantic and East Pacific hurricane seasons have drawn to a close, and storm activity in the two ocean basins was quite different, indeed, but for the same reason.

It was hoped that El Niño would fuel continued storm activity in California, but a relentless high - pressure area kept rains away.

Analyses of wind and significant wave height support reanalysis - based evidence for an increase in extratropical storm activity in the Northern Hemisphere in recent decades until the late 1990s.

The intensification of winter storm activity in Alaska and Northwestern Canada started close to 300 years ago and is unprecedented in magnitude and duration over the past millennium, according to a new study from Dartmouth College.

The research, an analysis of sea salt sodium levels in mountain ice cores, finds that warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean have intensified the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

Ice cores from Mount Hunter in Alaska's Denali National Park and Mount Logan in Canada were used in an analysis of over 1,000 years of history of the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

Not exact matches

The storm activity comes after Hurricane Harvey claimed about 60 lives and caused property damage estimated at as much as $ 180 billion in Texas and Louisiana.

It can be difficult to determine whether such pollutants were released as a result of the storm's damage to facilities, or were voluntarily released by refinery operators themselves in the course of shut - down activities.

And the next hurricane season starts in June, with above - average storm activity.

Was the May 6 «flash crash» really just a perfect storm of abnormal trading activity in three different types of products?

The Federal Reserve indicated that storm damage curtailed the change in total industrial production, as well as the change in factory sector activity, by roughly 3/4 percentage point during August.

-LRB-...) Though there have been some newly encouraging signs — such as a boost in retail sales in July for the third month running and promising economic activity data that could help rev up growth — the Ingrid and Manuel storms that battered both coastlines simultaneously will only deepen Mexico's sudden slowdown in gross domestic product growth.

We have more and more participants «engaging» in digital activities and communities that are «pulled» in by the storm.

Breaking away and storming off in a self - righteous huff remains one of the most characteristic activities of the Protestant Church.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Up until this time the activities of the gods were expected primarily in natural events, particularly the miraculous and the extraordinary, such as earthquakes, storms and famine.

The unexpected prediction from the deputy prime minister comes amid a storm of activity from Conservative eurosceptics, as the long campaigning season ahead of May's European elections begins in earnest.

But Hurricane Irma, which made landfall in the Keys and Southwest Florida little more than two weeks ago, threw a monkey - wrench into the contest, temporarily putting campaign activities on hold after the massive storm knocked out power, internet, cable and mail delivery to much of the district.

In the past three years, the Sun has gone through periods of higher and lower solar activity, and Mars also has experienced solar storms, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

Peaks in solar activity cause the city to flood more often, apparently by changing the paths of storms over Europe.

It monitors changes in Earth's magnetic field, providing data that help NOAA and the U.S. Air Force track magnetic storms due to solar activity.

«More broadly, the results suggest that from pre-industrial to the present day, human activity possibly may have changed storms in these regions in powerful ways.»

Reports blamed the conflict for changes in land use and cover — and for activities like increased military traffic over unpaved surfaces and farmers reducing irrigation or abandoning agricultural land — that created extreme amounts of dust to fuel the storm.

«We were able to show that storm and ocean wave activity in the Drake Passage, the ocean basin between the Antarctic Peninsula and South America, increases during positive phases of the Southern Annular Mode,» he explained.

The difference in lightning activity can't be explained by changes in the weather, according to the study's authors, who conclude that aerosol particles emitted in ship exhaust are changing how storm clouds form over the ocean.

The next peak cycle of sunspot activity is predicted for 2012 - 2014, bringing with it a greater risk of large geomagnetic storms that can generate powerful rogue currents in transmission lines, potentially damaging or destroying the large transformers that manage power flow over high - voltage networks.

Peak tornado activity in the central and southern Great Plains of the United States is occurring up to two weeks earlier than it did half a century ago, according to a new Montana State University study whose findings could help states in «Tornado Alley» better prepare for these violent storms.

One possibility is that some unknown activity in the planet's atmosphere may be draining energy and weakening the storm, causing it to shrink.

A computer model developed, in part, by University of Florida researchers can help coastal managers better understand the long - term effects of major storms, sea - level rise and beach restoration activities and possibly save millions of dollars.

Although it would take a truly massive space storm to cause a catastrophe, it is becoming clear that even modest solar activity poses a threat in our technology - dependent world.

The seven - day rainfall total from Harvey was as much as 40 percent higher than rainfall from a similar storm would have been decades ago, before human activity caused atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to spike, according to a study published yesterday in Geophysical Research Letters.

These cyclones are characterized by strong localized drops in sea level pressure, and as Arctic - wide decreases in sea level pressure are one of the expected results of climate change, this could increase extreme Arctic cyclone activity, including powerful storms in the spring and fall.

In May, they reported that 90 percent of the Atlantic storms followed a period of above - average lightning activity over the Ethiopian Highlands.

«Cold, hot or dry: Persistent weather extremes associated with decreased storm activity: Decrease in storm activity over large parts of the US, Europe, Russia, and China is found to influence weather extremes.»

Comprehensive analysis of satellite weather data shows that these are indeed regions where significant reductions in storm activity are detected during the rainy season.

«Regional changes are mostly due to natural variability but on top of that we see this pronounced overall weakening in summer storm activity,» says co-author Dim Coumou, «This is also something projected by climate models under future emission scenarios.

Although average summer storm activity decreases, the most intense winter storms are projected to increase in frequency under continued global warming.

We are currently within a period of decreasing solar activity, which may spell the end for severe magnetic storms in the near future,» Kataoka says.

Similar measurements are currently provided by the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS); however, this instrument is on a satellite that is in low - earth orbit, which means it is unable to track changes in lightning activity over the lifetime of a storm.

In summer, storm activity calmed down over as much as 80 percent of the land area in the mid-latitudeIn summer, storm activity calmed down over as much as 80 percent of the land area in the mid-latitudein the mid-latitudes.

In the case of Saturn, the planet's atmospheric conditions and storm activity are within the range that would generate a large polar cyclone.