Sentences with phrase «weather events of the past year»

Check out this exhaustive and in - depth take by Dr. Jeff Masters on the startlingly high number of extreme weather events of the past year - and - a-half.

Not exact matches

In the past two years, warm weather disrupted the tradition of playing on the lake, so the event was moved to Lippold Park.

Due to a heavier than average number of weather events this past snow season Oneida County DPW has determined the average cost per mile was higher than the 5 year average contracted amount.

New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.

According to ClimateWise, a global network of 28 insurance industry organizations, not only is 2017 likely to be the most expensive year on record due to natural disasters and extreme weather events all over the globe, but over the past decade only 30 % of catastrophic losses were insured, leaving a climate risk protection gap of $ 1.7 trillion.

Perhaps all would be forgiven if M: i: III were competently - directed (while M: I - 2 is one of the stupidest films ever made, as John Woo is one of the best action directors of the past twenty - five years, damn if it's not beautiful, coherent, auteurist stupidity), but it's a glassy - eyed, dead thing complete with superfluous flashbacks to events we don't care about involving characters we don't recognize, an interminable party sequence in which Cruise trots out his smile like it was a weathered, beaten - down trophy wife, and a smug, self - congratulatory conclusion full of high - fives, victory arms, and shit - eating grins.

The Royal Meteorological Society is collecting memories of weather events from the past 60 years.

The weather permits the use of the outdoor areas, and the past inclusion of live music, DJs and multimedia artworks has made it a memorable event on the Summer calendar year after year.

The first paper comes from a group of scientists who have worked to rapidly analyze a number of extreme weather events over the past few years, including flooding in Europe and Louisiana last year.

«During the past year, the American people have been served up an unprecedented parade of environmental alarmism by the media and entertainment industry, which links every possible weather event to global warming.

The fact that there has on any basis been little further warming over the course of the last 10 to 15 years over and above that which had already occured by the mid / late 19902 suggests that recent extreme weather events are not the consequence of additional warming (there having been all but none these past 15 years) and therefore must be due to natural variability of weather events in an ever changing and chaotic world in which we live.

None of the best data sets from the past 200 years are exactly shouting «fire» when it comes to temp, sea level or extreme weather events.

Over the past 40 years there has been roughly a quadrupling in the number of extreme weather events.

«The meteorologist Jeff Masters wrote on his blog, «Any one of the extreme weather events of 2010» — a year whose litany of disasters reads much like last year's — «or 2011 could have occurred naturally sometime during the past 1,000 years.

That literature — coupled with the astonishing number of off - the - charts extreme weather events of the past few years — is why more and more climate scientists and meteorologists and others are making the connection.

The frequency of reported natural disasters has increased over the past 40 years.19 Three times as many extreme weather events occurred between 2000 and 2009 as occurred between 1980 and 1989.

«One out of 10 record - breaking rainfall events observed globally in the past 30 years can only be explained if the long - term warming is taken into account,» says co-author Dim Coumou, a PIK researcher into the links between atmospheric circulation and extreme weather events.

In the past the negative effect of unusual weather events was always temporary; within a year or two things would return to normal.