Sentences with phrase «stronger precipitation events»

But now the risk of fire is exacerbated by climate change, which heats air (stoking stronger winds) and water (leading to more evaporation and hence stronger precipitation events).

Not exact matches

There are high hopes in California that the robust El Niño event will continue through the year and bring strong winter precipitation to help put a dent into the years - long drought there.

Our state level analyses of extreme precipitation events shows a strong increasing trend since the 1950s, with 40 of 48 states showing at least some increasing incidence.

Of course, many individual locations show strong increasing trends in the heaviest precipitation events.

There are multiple studies associating extreme precipitation events with waterborne disease outbreaks and strong climatological evidence for increasing frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in the future.

Precipitation extremes, many of them associated with one of the strongest La Niña events of the past 60 years, had major impacts on the world.

Basic theory, climate model simulations and empirical evidence all confirm that warmer climates, owing to increased water vapour, lead to more intense precipitation events even when the total annual precipitation is reduced slightly, and with prospects for even stronger events when the overall precipitation amounts increase.

Strong scientific evidence shows that global warming is increasing certain types of extreme weather events, including heat waves, coastal flooding, extreme precipitation events, and more severe droughts.

Climate change contributes to increased flooding because warmer air holds more water, leading to stronger and more frequent precipitation events.

Hertsgaard lays out other projected and potential impacts: harsher heat waves; stronger storms; more disease and pestilence; increased drought and less frequent but more intense heavier precipitation events; more wildfires; lower crop yields; and mass extinctions.

Moreover, he said there are «signs that we're trending toward a strong El Nino event,» which could mean even above - normal precipitation.