Sentences with phrase «weather occurrence -lsb-»

A tornado is a type of weather occurrence, but weather damage does not extend to damage caused by a tornado.

Significant Decreasing Trend In Severe Weather Since 1961 Zhang et al., 2017 Based on continuous and coherent severe weather reports from over 500 manned stations, for the first time, this study shows a significant decreasing trend in severe weather occurrence -LSB-...]

Three years later, the inventor is called back into duty, when a strange weather occurrence takes over the Afghani desert and the streets of Hong Kong, leaving the American government, led by President Palma (Garcia), with no choice but to send Jake up to space to investigate, before the real threat of a gigantic weather storm hits Earth.

Jesus supposedly walking on water is in a category quite apart from rare weather occurrences, however there is some evidence that such feats are indeed possible.

Mayor Bloomberg created a taskforce to develop a long - term plan for the city based on expected future climate change, severe weather occurrences, and how to rebuild better.

And the governor says extreme weather occurrences are becoming more common.

Most people don't associate Hawai'i with having severe weather occurrences, albeit hurricanes.

Unfortunately, that is starting to change as people begin to attribute, fairly or not, weird weather occurrences to climate change.

The jury is still out, the team said, suggesting that people should be more proactive in the face of potentially chaotic winter weather occurrences.

Although inclement weather in the form of ice and snow are rarely seen in this area, other weather occurrences such as heavy rain can cause drivers to get into accidents while operating their vehicles.

Not exact matches

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Please keep in mind that all delivery times are weather permitting and sometimes ship times can be affected by occurrences that are out of our control.

Mr Brown insisted the Environment Agency had been adequately funded to provide flood defences, but admitted the government would need to reassess the issue as climate change increases the occurrences of freak weather.

Professor Fitt continued: «We know that the weather plays a big part in the development of the disease on the wheat crops — the incidence of the disease is determined by temperature and the occurrence of wet weather at the flowering or anthesis of the wheat crops.»

«By prescribing the effects of human - made climate change and observed global ocean temperatures, our model can reproduce the observed shifts in weather patterns and wildfire occurrences.»

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.

He cites a global weather phenomenon, called atmospheric blocking, as an example of a planet - wide occurrence that is has already affected his forensic micrometeorology endeavors.

Thus, it is plausible that changes to atmospheric ionization rates due to cosmic ray variability may affect the occurrence of electrical phenomena in the Venusian atmosphere (Nordheim et al. 2015) hence manifesting a relation between space weather and meteorological phenomena.

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

Inter-annual variations in mean US fire weather season length were significantly correlated with variation in annual burned area reported by the US National Interagency Fire Center44 over the full time series from 1979 to 2013 and also from 1992 to 2013, when fire occurrence data quality was highest45 (ρ = 0.679 and 0.683, respectively, P < 0.001).

But in practice this requires climate models that are able to reliably simulate the weather systems in questions over and over again to assess the likelihood of its occurrence.

Increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide do not only cause global warming, but probably also trigger increased occurrences of extreme weather events such as long - lasting droughts, heat - waves, heavy rainfall events or extreme storms.

With this weather lately, they are becoming a regular occurrence.

Not a regular occurrence, but here we are, getting some of the best weather of the year — in November.

Cuffing season, as defined by UrbanDictionary.com, is a yearly occurrence around the fall and winter months when normally promiscuous singles begin to look for serious relationships (becoming «cuffed» or tied down) due in part to colder weather creating a high propensity for canoodling indoors.

Parties & barbecues are common occurrences as the weather warms up.

Spring is finally here and the fine weather and beautiful scenery is calling people and animals alike to the outdoors making encounters with wildlife a daily occurrence.

You should also give yourself some buffer time in case your flight to or from Kathmandu is delayed because of weather (something which is a common occurrence).

Covered hazards include common occurrences like equipment failures, inclement weather, and labor strikes, but can even cover things like hijacking / skyjacking.

Looking at the forecast there was a rare stretch of ~ 5 days of beautiful weather expected for the West Coast — not a common occurrence and one we hadn't seen in our entire time in New Zealand to date!

The terms «climate event» and «extreme weather» have only recently entered common usage, yet the meteorological occurrences they refer to are as old as our planet's atmosphere.

Just like floods (where mankind has influenced their occurrences), farming has been affected by factors other than weather.

A new method based on global climate model pressure gradients was developed for identifying coastal high - wind fire weather conditions, such as the Santa Ana Occurrence (SAO).

Climate change projected fire weather sensitivity: California Santa Ana wind occurrence Norman L. Miller and Nicole J. Schlegel

Recent work suggests an increase in recent decades in the occurrence of QRA - favorable conditions and associated extreme weather, possibly linked to amplified Arctic warming and thus a climate change influence.

In increasing order of suddenness, there are what you might call «steady - state» impacts such as rising sea levels; increased separation of weather into more concentrated wet periods and dry periods; and a greater occurrence of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and droughts.

There is even a far smaller disturbance off the East Coast a very very common occurrence that TV weather» reporters» are referencing as a possible HURRICANE even as it is safely away from making landfall as much as it is not a hurricane.

[Response: Climate can be regarded as «weather statistics», of which the occurrence of record - breaking events is naturally one subject.

Before interpreting the upward trend in the occurrence of weather - related disasters as «completely unprecedented» and «due to global warming», one has to take into account the complexities of disaster occurrence, human vulnerabilities and statistical reporting and registering.

Residents of Sand Point witnessed a weather phenomenon that elders say is a first - time occurrence.

Whenever there is a new record - breaking weather event, such as record - high temperatures, it is natural to ask whether the occurrence of such an event is due to a climate change.

In particular, he cited a graph that was included in the report that showed a relationship between rising temperatures and the increasing costs of damages from weather - related occurrences.

None has done so, and there is simply no empirical evidence that the occurrence of weather - related disasters is on the increase.

Recognition has grown in the scientific community that droughts, heat - waves and other catastrophic weather and climate events are not random in occurrence, nor are they caused only by variations in remote ocean temperatures altering large - scale atmospheric circulation.

«By prescribing the effects of man - made climate change and observed global ocean temperatures, our model can reproduce the observed shifts in weather patterns and wildfire occurrences.»

Concurrent Events: Dowdy and Catto's (2017) storm / extreme weather analysis found: «The highest risk of extreme precipitation and extreme wind speeds is found to be associated with a triple storm type characterized by concurrent cyclone, front and thunderstorm occurrences.»

This should be the main priority, including at multi-decadal AMO scales, and with the regular occurrence solar minima, as these govern dominant regional climatic and weather pattern changes, regardless of relatively small increases in non-condensing GHG forcings.

Lack of winds can also block rains: a persistent high pressure system, not an uncommon occurrence, blocked weather systems that might have brought rain to the American Midwest and East in the summer of 1988.

The most extreme weather events, by definition, are relatively rare, so their occurrence is dominated by chance.

The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populations.