Sentences with phrase «warm rains fall»

This effect can be compounded when relatively warm rains fall on and melt existing snow pack.

Not exact matches

For example, there can be considerable mineralization in the fall when soils are still warm and leaching rains occur.

Yesterday, in between two gloriously warm fall days of sunshine, we hosted a hardy group of 3rd grade Waldorf students for a fiber farm day in the cold, dark rain!

As the climate warms, researchers expect more dusts to make their way aloft, possibly having impacts on precipitation by changing where rain or snow falls.

Many clouds at mid-latitudes make rain by freezing water into ice crystals (which fall from the cloud then melt before they hit the ground), rather than by coalescing warm water droplets together.

In late 2010 and early 2011, the continent Down Under received about twice its normal complement of rain, thanks in large part to unusually warm sea - surface temperatures just north of Australia and a particularly strong La Niña — in essence, combining a source of warm humid air with the weather patterns that steered the moisture over the continent where it condensed and fell as precipitation.

Climate change models predict that the Arctic sea ice will continue to shrink in a warming world (as much as 40 % of the ice is expected to be gone by midcentury), and the resulting changes — including later formation of ice in the autumn, rain falling on the snow, and decreasing snow depths — will make it increasingly difficult for the seals to construct their snow caves, NOAA says.

«People may know the expression, «It's too cold to snow» — if it's very cold, there is too little water vapor in the air to support a very heavy snowfall, and if it's too warm, most of the precipitation will fall as rain,» O'Gorman says.

Over the next 100 years, Minnesota's iconic boreal forest and deep snow may change into a deciduous forest with winters warm enough for some precipitation to fall as rain, according to a new U.S. Forest Service assessment of the vulnerability of Minnesota forests to climate change.

In general, climate scientists expect heavy downpours to increase over the U.S. and elsewhere, as a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, making more of it available to fall as rain.

As the Earth continued to cool from Years 0.1 to 0.3 billion, a torrential rain fell that turned to steam upon hitting the still hot surface, then superheated water, and finally collected into hot or warm seas and oceans above and around cooling crustal rock leaving sediments.

And even in wet years, warmer temperatures could mean that more precipitation falls as rain, not snow, setting up the possibility that many more years will see an April 1 with very little snow.

Despite a near - average winter precipitation total for California, Oregon, and Washington, the record warmth caused most of the precipitation to fall as rain and not snow, which had implications on the drought intensification and water resource crisis during the warm months.

In locations that are accustomed to getting snow during the winter, the total amount of snow each year is already decreasing as the planet warms from increasing greenhouse gases; the percentage of precipitation falling as snow is on the decline, with more of it falling as rain.

However, the warm coastal waters could mean that any precipitation that does fall would do so as rain and not snow, which is keenly needed in the mountains to help provide a source of water in the warm months.

On top of that, temperatures have been extremely warm — the winter of 2014 - 2015 was the hottest on record for California — which meant that what precipitation did fall often did so as rain and not snow.

However, with winters overall heating up because of global warming, the precipitation that falls during the season is increasingly falling as rain rather than snow in the U.S..

After a beautiful day when we thought spring warm weather finally arrived, the weather changed and the rain fell down: S

But either way we've still had warm + sunny days in SoCal this fall season (minus the sudden rain one day this week).

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As I've mentioned in my previous post, the snow has arrived to Finland and we've been enjoying some brightness and Winter fun (read: sliding through slippery streets, making first snowman, putting on 4 - 5 layers of clothes, etc.) but as of yesterday, we're back to Fall like weather, warmer temperatures and pouring rain.

It's hard to believe that fall is finally here — it's still pretty warm here in the desert but we had a massive rain and windstorm a couple weekends ago which resulted in a nasty flood.

Rain is my favorite and even now, hearing it fall outstide while I'm writing this post, gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling.

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A new study claims that it snows in Colorado at temperatures so warm the precipitation would fall as rain elsewhere.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

Now, Spring has just about disappeared, the closest thing to it now would be the few warm spells happening during what is now, essentially, a winter, meaning both the chill and the rains, that goes from the first rains in late Fall until May, sometimes Memorial Day.

But if at some point temperatures warmed sufficiently that snow would fall as rain instead, then I think the lack of snow cover across Siberia in the fall could amplify winter warming.

But for the moment, twin trends are exacerbating the threat: the urban rush in developing countries, in which millions of poor people are settling on fragile slopes and floodplains, and rising odds of rain falling in dangerous downpours in a warming world.

The warm, open water gives off a great deal of water vapor by evaporation; the moisture is swept south and overland by the winds where it cools off and falls as rain or snow.

«Rains have become more intense and fall in a shorter period,» and warmer temperatures are leading to faster melting of the Himalayan glaciers, compounding the risks of flooding.

«We expect there will be more gas built up due to longer and warmer fall seasons and more frequent pulse events due to more rain on ice in the spring,» Raz - Yaseef said.

But the forecast also indicates temperatures will be warmer than normal, which could mean most of that precipitation falls as rain, not snow.

Declines in snowpack are projected to continue as temperatures warm and more winter precipitation falls as rain rather than snow throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Warm - cloud rain results when the droplets attain a sufficient size to fall to the ground.

Frozen precipitation, falling to levels of the atmosphere that are much warmer than 0 °C, often melts and reaches the ground as rain.

It is known that semi-salty, or anomalously warm or cool, blobs even travel from the subtropics, up and around the Greenland Seas and back around to the Labrador Sea, suggesting another failure mode for late winter downwelling; see Raymond W. Schmitt, «If rain falls on the ocean, does it make a sound?»

Lots more rain falling is now what is predicted to happen from global warming.

As the climate of the Pacific Northwest warms, more winter precipitation is falling as rain, compared with historical averages.2 With declining snowpack in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, peak stream flows are occurring earlier, and summer flows are declining.2 These changes are expected to continue as heat - trapping emissions grow, putting more stress on already endangered salmon that return to the Columbia and other rivers in the region to spawn.2

«People may know the expression, «It's too cold to snow» — if it's very cold, there is too little water vapor in the air to support a very heavy snowfall, and if it's too warm, most of the precipitation will fall as rain,» O'Gorman says.

The added effect of warming is that more rain has to fall to make up for the resulting increased rate of evaporation.

Every now and then, however, the shear is low and a cluster of thunderstorms joins up and creates a persistent updraft as warm wet air is pulled into the low pressure underneath, is lifted up (cooling), and falls back as much cooler rain.

On the flip side, as the Earth warms, more water is released into the atmosphere to fall as rain on the land, creating more ground water for better vegetation growth.

Over the past few decades, warming temperatures have been linked to changes in the percentage of precipitation falling as rain or snow, and snow melt anomalies showing a trend towards earlier and faster stream flow.

To my understanding this is not a big effect, and it could cut both ways - warm rain can fall on a cool ocean as well.

Also if it continues to get much warmer in the fall, precipitation that currently falls as snow will fall as rain instead, eliminating the winter cooling.»

This would help explain the differential vs the tropics (soot has less effect on warming when it falls on a rain forest than on snow) as well as the differential between Artic and Antarctic.

The retreat has been most noticeable at high elevations, driven in large part by warming temperatures contributing directly to melting and indirectly to more precipitation falling as rain rather than snow, in turn increasing the rate at which the glaciers move and increasing the size of glacial lakes, both decreasing ice cover.

During the salty / warm phase, rain falls abundantly in West Africa south of the Sahara, European winters are cold, and hurricane activity increases.

Dr. Trenberth clearly stated that his calculations imply ~ 1 ″ of the rain that fell on New Orleans during Katrina could be attributed to the change of sea surface temperature associated with global warming since 1970.