Sentences with phrase «weather extremes such»

The findings are limited to tornadoes, and don't delve into whether climate change could be affecting other weather extremes such as heat waves, floods or droughts.

As we face weather extremes such as drought and excessive heat, climate disruption is already on our doorstep.

Feral cats must endure weather extremes such as cold and snow, heat and rain.

Not exact matches

More customers than ever before are shopping online, and they have a tendency to do even more online purchasing during extreme weather events, such as blizzards or flooding, says Sarah Quinlan, senior vice president of market insights for MasterCard International.

Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

Recent extreme weather events, such as the flooding in Ontario and Quebec last summer and the forest fires in British Columbia and Alberta, are directly connected to climate change, McKenna says.

To address supply chain challenges posed by extremely perishable items such as bananas and by extremes in climate and weather, Class Produce maintains relationships with hundreds of growers.

To keep from becoming derailed by such external factors as higher egg and beef prices, extreme weather conditions across various parts of the country in the first quarter, and a changing labor landscape, among others, the industry continues to draw on its resilient nature as it keeps dutifully moving along.

Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.

The ability of the transport network to withstand or recover from disruptions, such as those caused by extreme weather in recent years, is also key.

«Current long term predictions indicate that these extreme weather variations will continue and situations such as the current flood events, and disruption caused, underline how adequate maintenance and funding of the network must be a fundamental part of UK transport policy.

Professor Lyons explores what the future may hold for transportation given a series of uncertainties such as falling world oil prices, extreme weather events and global security.

The panel is expected to discuss topics ranging from the impact of climate change on New Yorkers» health, the increase in extreme weather such as heightened flood risk, and recent efforts by the state to respond.

«While we can not say the (Hoosick Falls) storm was caused by climate change, incidences of severe weather and flooding such as this have a higher probability in a globally warmed climate,» said Ross Lazear, an instructor at the University at Albany who studies extreme weather and weather forecasting.

And the worst is yet to come: As the global thermostat rises, extreme weather events such as droughts and floods will become more frequent and intense in many regions, the United Nations warns.

Global warming is causing not only a general increase in temperatures, but also an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as flooding, heat waves and droughts.

Increased fluctuations in the path of the North Atlantic jet stream since the 1960s coincide with more extreme weather events in Europe such as heat waves, droughts, wildfires and flooding, reports a University of Arizona - led team.

Such a grove is naturally less resilient to climate change and extreme weather.

Further, such extreme events will affect other species in the region, which have long existed under more predictable weather regimes.

But this is the first time that any study has found that a weather event was so extreme that it was outside the bounds of natural variability — let alone three such events, Herring said.

When in January rainfall was double the expected average over wide areas, many people made cautious links between such extreme weather and global climate change.

Its core is a flurry of recent research proposing that such extreme weather events in the midlatitudes are linked through the atmosphere with the effects of rapid climate change in the Arctic, such as dwindling sea ice.

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It may soon be followed, however, by yet more flooding in coming years: climate change may increase the likelihood of extreme weather, such as excessive summer rains, that give rise to such natural disasters.

Until now such extreme weather phenomena have been very poorly understood.

«Dangerous» global warming includes consequences such as increased risk of extreme weather and climate events ranging from more intense heat waves, hurricanes, and floods, to prolonged droughts.

«Substantial proportions literally say that they believe global warming made specific extreme weather events worse, such as Harvey and Irma and Maria, such as wildfires out West, such as the extreme heat wave that grounded planes in Phoenix.»

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

Such extreme weather caused more than $ 140 billion in damages in 2012.

Fluctuations in extreme weather events, such as heavy rains and droughts, are affecting ecosystems in unexpected ways — creating «winners and losers» among plant species that humans depend upon for food.

Without more detailed satellite observations, extending the range of accurate weather forecasts — especially for such extreme events as hurricanes — would be severely restricted.

In recent years, extreme winter weather events such as heavy snowfalls and severe winters have been occurring frequently in regions such as East Asia, North America and Europe.

Climate experts have long warned that global warming could bring an increase in extreme weather, such as hurricanes and drought.

Dry places are likely to get drier; rainfall is likely to arrive in fewer but more concentrated episodes; and extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones are likely to increase in intensity.

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

It highlighted a series of global weather phenomena that resulted from this stratosphere - troposphere «coupling» — such as the cold European winters and occurrences of extreme temperatures over eastern North America.

Other threats such as extreme weather, farms turned to desert and choking smog are all exacerbated by climate change that results from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air.

The changing climate will enhance the wide variations in weather that mid-latitude regions already experience from year to year and bring an increased number of extreme events such as heat waves and hailstorms, Busalacchi says.

The report — the second such annual report — analyzes the findings from about 20 scientific studies of a dozen or so extreme weather events that occurred around the world last year, seeking to parse the relative influence of anthropogenic climate change.

Of course, he or she can always switch to more deliberative processing when necessary, such as conditions of extreme weather, heavy traffic or mechanical failure.

To attribute any specific extreme weather event — such as the downpours that caused flooding in Pakistan or Australia, for example — requires running such computer models thousands of times to detect any possible human impact amidst all the natural influences on a given day's weather.

One of the first questions asked in the wake of such an extreme weather event is: «Is this due to climate change?»

The researchers looked at real - world observations and confirmed that this temperature pattern does correspond with the double - peaked jet stream and waveguide patter associated with persistent extreme weather events in the late spring and summer such as droughts, floods and heat waves.

In an attempt to save more lives and livelihoods through improvements in forecasting extreme weather — as well to make preparations to cope with such events — the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is investing in improved radar systems, more advanced computer modeling and better satellite systems.

Such trends mean scientists and policymakers will have to factor in how synthetic climate forcers other than greenhouse gases will change temperature, rainfall and weather extremes.

Scientists, engineers and others who study extreme weather have proposed numerous ways to reduce the suffering and damage inflicted by hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, deluges, droughts and such.

With such old origins, the creature must have weathered extreme shifts in climate, researchers report online July 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

WHEN extreme weather strikes, such as the floods in Pakistan, the null hypothesis is to assume that humans have not played a role, then figure out if they did.

But such efforts are useful in communicating the changing risks of extreme weather to the public, say the scientists, who are working with Climate Central's World Weather Attribution program.

Scientists are reluctant to directly link climate change with extreme weather events such as storms and drought, saying these fluctuate according to atmospheric conditions, but green groups link the two in their calls for action.