Sentences with phrase «stronger storm events»

This causes the air to keep rising until even more water is wrung out, which can mean stronger storm events.

Instead, most of the widespread flooding, mudslides, and other infrastructure disruptions that have occurred stemmed primarily from the cumulative effect of unusually frequent moderate to strong storm events.

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But in an email Tuesday, Mr. Russell noted several highlights of his most recent term, including purchases of farmland development rights and environmentally fragile parcels, maintaining a strong credit rating and guiding the town through several major storm events.

But he has also been quick to point to several successes of the board during his latest term, including purchases of farmland development rights and environmentally fragile parcels, maintaining a strong credit rating, and guiding the town through several major storm events.

One of those flares was as strong as Earth's 1859 Carrington Event, among the strongest geomagnetic storms ever observed.

Long summaries of events would be stronger if leavened with more direct quotes, but Sandlin's work is still engaging in its revelation of the roots of modern meteorology in the dedication of these first storm chasers.

The proposed Carrington - L5 mission is named after the British scientist who monitored the strongest geomagnetic storm on record, the event of 1859.

«Using lightning data to modify the air moisture was enough to dramatically improve the short - term forecast for a strong rain, wind and storm event,» said first author Ken Dixon, a former UW graduate student who now works for The Weather Company.

In addition, stronger storms may also lead to greater coral damage due to increased flooding events, associated terrestrial runoff of freshwater and dissolved nutrients from coastal watersheds, and changes in sediment transport (leading to smothering of corals).

While assessing flood - control measures before Hurricane Katrina, scientists used a model storm that included data from decades of past events, but that intentionally left out data for two of the strongest storms (Hurricane Camille of 1969 and the Keys Storm of 1935) because they were not judged «reasonably characteristic of the Gulf.&rstorm that included data from decades of past events, but that intentionally left out data for two of the strongest storms (Hurricane Camille of 1969 and the Keys Storm of 1935) because they were not judged «reasonably characteristic of the Gulf.&rStorm of 1935) because they were not judged «reasonably characteristic of the Gulf.»

While increases in wind shear could offset the impact of tropical temperatures in some — maybe even the majority — of storm seasons, one might worry about what happens during those seasons where there is anomalously low shear (e.g., a very strong La Niña event).

From what I've read and heard, rare events, such as prolonged heat waves, very strong storms, and floods of record, will become less rare in a warming Earth.

The most notable event was a very strong storm centered over the central Arctic Ocean in early August.

«Future projections based on theory and high - resolution dynamical models consistently suggest that greenhouse warming will cause the globally averaged intensity of tropical cyclones to shift towards stronger storms,» Knutson et al. (2010); Grinsted et al. (2013) projected «a twofold to sevenfold increase in the frequency of Katrina magnitude events for a 1 °C rise in global temperature.»

The U.S. Global Change Research Program found that if emission rates continue unchanged the U.S. is likely to experience stronger coastal storm surges and more frequent extreme rainfall events.

Bloomberg then used this information to develop the world's most aggressive climate adaptation and infrastructure plan to protect the city's 8.4 million residents from stronger storms, rising seas, heat waves and other climate events.

However, the impact of strong individual storms may be different — the 2012 event appears to have temporarily boosted ice loss by breaking up the ice cover, with the wave action tending to mix warmer waters from below to hasten melt.

We observed changes in foF2 up to 60 % during these events, which at middle latitudes are typical rather for strong geomagnetic storms than for minor and moderate disturbances.

He says average rainfall for Australia will decrease, but the extreme weather events will be on the rise, so while you might get less rain over the year it will come in the form of damaging storms and stronger winds which feel like so - called freak events.

Masters's column then delves into specific events from around the globe: extremely low Arctic ice and rapid melting in Greenland; a radical shift from El Nino to La Nina; an Amazonian drought; a bizarre period for tropical cyclones and monsoons; floods, heat waves, record rainfalls across the world; the strongest non-coastal storm in U.S. history; and a long list of countries that set record high temperatures.

El Niño events typically occur in association with abnormal weather patterns, among which strong storms in local areas and flooding in others are some of the most common.

He also said the ongoing strong El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean may have influenced the storm track of this storm as well as the extra heat present in the Atlantic, since the Atlantic tends to have less active hurricane seasons and winter storm seasons during El Niños, allowing warm water anomalies to persist.

In reply to Steven Berg (189): the observation of two strong storms occuring 3 yrs apart on different continents does not on its own make any case that climate change is a contributary factor to either frequency or intensity when compared to conclusions of the IPCC TAR (published several yearas after these events and therefore very unlikely to have missed them)-- stating:

El Niño events can lead to stronger upper - level winds over the tropical North Atlantic, which can tear nascent storms apart before they have a chance to strengthen.

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.

While infidelity is rated as the most serious hurtful event a couple can face, many marriages and relationships can survive the storm and sometimes even make it through even stronger than before the affair occurred.