Sentences with phrase «torrential flooding rains»

After a week of torrential flooding rains in Colorado it was just the dish for yet another gray and gloomy day.

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Taylor Swift is donating $ 1 million to Louisiana flood relief after torrential rains caused massive flooding in the state and killed at least 11 people.

Images of the flooded metropolises of Houston, Jacksonville, and San Juan with overtopped dams, billowing sewage, and flooded homes show that torrential rain can be one of the most devastating consequences of hurricanes, especially in urban areas where concrete makes it harder for water to drain and where people can drown.

Trump is scheduled to visit storm - ravaged Texas tomorrow, though torrential rain and catastrophic flooding are expected to continue for several days.

Areas within these counties are experiencing record flooding because of torrential rains and storm surge.

And that track ran straight through Hoosick Falls, where repeated torrential rains turned Woods Brook, a normally gentle brook named for a local patriarch, into a raging locomotive that blasted apart the village's decrepit, 1950s - era flood protection system.

Two days after the torrential rains that hit parts of the Northern Region rendering many communities flooded, the Nanumba North and South districts still remain inaccessible with vehicles and passengers unable to access or exit the Bimbilla township.

The report was published more than eight months before Hurricane Harvey dumped torrential rain on Texas, with resulting catastrophic flooding.

Torrential rains in 1315 and 1316 flooded crops and caused the Great Famine.

One of the negative environmental conditions that will worsen with the effects of global warming is the flooding of farmland due to torrential rain.

In 2007 alone, summer flooding in Great Britain cost that nation nearly $ 6 billion, while torrential rains in China displaced more than 500,000 people, with losses to property and crops in excess of $ 1 billion.

Unprecedented summer warmth and flooding, forest fires, drought and torrential rain — extreme weather events are occurring more and more often, but now an international team of climate scientists has found a connection between many extreme weather events and the impact climate change is having on the jet stream.

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.

El Niño can lead to wetter weather in southern India, which also happened this year, with torrential rains that caused major flooding in the area around Chennai.

I'm currently in the USA: Texas was hit by another massive storm the day before yesterday; today Missouri continues to experience torrential rain and widespread flooding is expected, including from the Mississippi River.

The result, Malin added, could resemble the sort of mudflows seen on Earth after torrential rains or flash floods.

Hurricanes brought torrential rains and flooding to Florida and Puerto Rico.

But anyone who has lived through four straight days of torrential rain that may surpass 50 inches knows perfectly well that no zoning code, infrastructure improvements or flood control regulations could have done anything to deal with this much water inundating a major metropolitan area this quickly.

Many people are very worried, even scared, about abrupt climate change causing extreme weather events like torrential rains with floods, droughts, high winds, etc. increasing in severity, duration, frequency and impact.

Hot Wet Atmospheric Rivers Ravage Arctic: Part 1 of 4 / / Published on Feb 23, 2018 Ongoing abrupt climate change is causing global weather mayhem, causing huge temperature swings from icebox chills to heat records, and torrential rains with record floods.

Blackburn discussed long - term flood mitigation solutions for Houston based on SSPEED Center research on the region's torrential rains.

While western states, particularly California, often experience the most severe weather, including torrential rains, flooding, and mudslides, other states incur less obvious, but no less real, damage.

On June 16, torrential rains flooded southeast and northwest portions South Dakota.

Yesterday we had torrential rain in New York City and the flooding caused critical situations in all five boroughs.

There is torrential rain in Colorado this week — flooding everywhere; lives lost — where some desperately need it, it's too, too much all at once!

NEW ORLEANS — Climate change made the torrential rains that flooded Houston after Hurricane Harvey last summer much worse, scientists reported Wednesday.

Likewise, the torrential rains of January and February can cause local flooding, which can damage homes and lead to problems like toxic mold.

Tropical Storm Harvey is expected to become a category 3 hurricane, threatening Texas and Louisiana with torrential rains, dangerous winds, and flooding.

It began with utopian do - it - yourself collectivism, was flooded by torrential rains, and ended in mass arrests.

But it was something that unfortunately took on reality with the recent flood warnings and torrential rain, as the artwork featured ships and surfers battling the waves amidst an apocalyptic storm.

This is important because most destruction and loss of life are caused by high category storms and their attendant storm surges, and by freshwater flooding from torrential rains.

Communities throughout Louisiana are being flooded as torrential rain barreled down in southeastern Louisiana and parts of southern Mississippi.

So some parts of the world are likely to experience blazing drought, followed by catastrophic floods, while across the ocean, other nations will have torrential rain and then unseasonal drought, every 13 years or so.

A powerful El Niño is accompanied by drought and forest fire on the western side of the Pacific, and torrential rain and floods on the normally dry eastern Pacific coasts.

Towns where the sea level is creeping further inland may flood easier during the summer monsoons (seasonal reversals in the wind) that bring torrential rains from the southwest.

Images of the flooded metropolises of Houston, Jacksonville, and San Juan with overtopped dams, billowing sewage, and flooded homes show that torrential rain can be one of the most devastating consequences of hurricanes, especially in urban areas where concrete makes it harder for water to drain and where people can drown.

For example, such studies have shown that rising temperatures doubled the risk of the torrential rains behind the Louisiana floods last August and that climate change was responsible for 70 % of heat - related deaths in Paris during the 2003 heatwave.

We were at the lake, which was in flood due to the torrential rains experienced by a good chunk of the country in the last couple of weeks, and it was so warm that we turned off the heat, which was a distinctly odd thing to be doing on December 27th.

The most certain impact is major flooding from days of torrential rain and compound rain / storm surge

There are places reeling from drought, yet at the same time there are areas that have been hit by torrential rains, triggering floods and landslides in a very short span of time.

Eastern Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan have been hit by torrential rain, causing floods which have killed at least 80 people.

Hurricane Harvey is anticipated to strengthen to a category 3 storm as it reaches the Texas coast tonight through early Saturday, bringing high winds, coastal flooding, and torrential rains.

Floods Devastate Pakistan For the second straight year, torrential monsoon - driven rains have swamped portions of Pakistan.

As the torrential rains of Typhoon Hagupit flood thePhilippines, driving millions of people from their homes, the Philippine government arrived at a United Nationsclimate change summit meeting on Monday to push hard for a new international deal requiring all nations, including developing countries, to cut their use of fossil fuels.

Torrential rain in China has caused extreme flooding, affecting at least 134 million people in 28 provinces.

The Houston area alone has seen no fewer than three such events in the past three years, according to local officials: Memorial Day floods in 2015 and 2016, followed by Hurricane Harvey's torrential rains this year.

You'll need to buy separate flood insurance to cover tropical storms, torrential rain and overflowing rivers.

According to the Department of Insurance, now would be a good time to review your existing homeowners insurance policy to make sure you have a good understanding of what is and isn't covered when torrential rain storms cause damage other than flooding from rising waters that consume your home.

Massive floods in Alberta in 2013 and torrential rains and ice storms across Quebec, Ontario, and the Atlantic provinces have resulted in property damages of over $ 3 billion.

When torrential rains hit, everything floods.