Sentences with phrase «storm in about a decade»

Canadians were eager to buy insurance after hurricane Andrew devastated southern Florida in 1992, but Rivard said the concern has waned because the state hasn't experienced a big storm in about a decade.

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The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade came ashore late Friday about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi as a mammoth Category 4 storm with 130 mph (209 kph) winds.

Not one but four sheriff's deputies hid behind cars instead of storming Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla., during a school shooting, police claimed — as new records revealed the Broward County Sheriff's Office had received at least 18 calls about the troubled teen, Nikolas Cruz, over the past decade.

That shift caused warmer temperatures in the north - west US, fewer storms in the south - east, and reduced precipitation in the west — conditions that persisted for about a decade.

In 2015, the trio won about $ 6 million in NIH funding over 5 years for what was finally, a decade after the storm, a unified effort: Katrina@1In 2015, the trio won about $ 6 million in NIH funding over 5 years for what was finally, a decade after the storm, a unified effort: Katrina@1in NIH funding over 5 years for what was finally, a decade after the storm, a unified effort: Katrina@10.

It caused warmer temperatures in the north - west US, fewer storms in the south - east, and reduced precipitation in the west — conditions that persisted for about a decade.

A week after Hurricane Maria, the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico in decades, there's less immediate concern about when schools will reopen and more about when children and families will have access to food, running water, and power.

Over the last few decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the Great Barrier Reef, which has lost more than a quarter of its corals in the last three decades, due to bleaching brought on by climate change, storms and coral - munching starfish — and quite possibly even sunscreen.

Today's century levels become «decade» (having a chance of 10 % annually) or more frequent events at about a third of the study gauges, and the majority of locations see substantially higher frequency of previously rare storm - driven water heights in the future.

Has realclimate ever done (or considered doing) an entry about the immense contribution that satellite measurements have made in the past two - three decades, in helping us to understand various components of the earth system (e.g., vegetation, ozone, ice sheet mass, water vapor content, temperature, sea level height, storms, aerosols, etc.)?

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

During the last big abrupt cooling, 12,900 years ago, Europe cooled down to Siberian temperatures within a decade (about ten-fold greater than in the Little Ice Age), the rainfall likely dropped by half, and fierce winter storms whipped a lot of dust into the atmosphere.

«In the oceans, major climate warming and cooling and pH (ocean pH about 8.1) changes are a fact of life, whether it is over a few years as in an El Niño, over decades as in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or the North Atlantic Oscillation, or over a few hours as a burst of upwelling (pH about 7.59 - 7.8) appears or a storm brings acidic rainwater (pH about 4 - 6) into an estuary.&raquIn the oceans, major climate warming and cooling and pH (ocean pH about 8.1) changes are a fact of life, whether it is over a few years as in an El Niño, over decades as in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or the North Atlantic Oscillation, or over a few hours as a burst of upwelling (pH about 7.59 - 7.8) appears or a storm brings acidic rainwater (pH about 4 - 6) into an estuary.&raquin an El Niño, over decades as in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or the North Atlantic Oscillation, or over a few hours as a burst of upwelling (pH about 7.59 - 7.8) appears or a storm brings acidic rainwater (pH about 4 - 6) into an estuary.&raquin the Pacific Decadal Oscillation or the North Atlantic Oscillation, or over a few hours as a burst of upwelling (pH about 7.59 - 7.8) appears or a storm brings acidic rainwater (pH about 4 - 6) into an estuary.»