Sentences with phrase «when extreme weather»

(MCT)-- When extreme weather hits, often one of the first luxuries lost is electrical power.

Floods Most floods occur in floodplains, but can occur in many areas when extreme weather patterns bring several inches of rain in a short amount of time.

While the law doesn't mandate comprehensive coverage, it could protect you when extreme weather occurs.

«Where and when extreme weather events occur is still largely a matter of luck,» explains Professor Myles Allen of the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, a co-author on three of these new studies, «but science can help us understand how different factors are loading the weather dice.»

When an extreme weather event such as flooding occurs, millions of people are displaced and both freshwater supply and agricultural production are affected.

Over in Bonn, left - wing NGOs and developing nations are back to agitating for wealthy nations to pick up the tab for «loss and damage» suffered by poor countries when extreme weather strikes.

Furthermore, when extreme weather events caused by global warming occur, flooding causes plastic to escape stormwater systems and enter our rivers, lakes and oceans.

Displacement is the movement of people from their place of residence, and can occur when extreme weather events, such as flood and drought, make areas temporarily uninhabitable.

If, like me, you tend to get glued to your TV or computer screen when extreme weather strikes, then you know that 2011 was a very active year with respect to natural disasters.

The grid operator testified that «wholesale energy prices and emissions will rise when extreme weather results in natural gas pipeline constraints — driving up the price of natural gas (and wholesale energy) and forcing New England to rely on oil - and coal - fired generation for multi-day (or multi-week) periods.»

They have to cope with higher food prices at a time when extreme weather may have also killed their livestock, destroyed their home or farm, or stripped them of their livelihood.

We strongly recommend travel insurance during stays when extreme weather conditions may occur.

Take care, stay safe and keep the following tips in mind when extreme weather is expected.

Erosion can happen at a much fast rate when extreme weather events occur.

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.

Natural gas is used as the primary heating fuel in about half of U.S. households, and prices can rise rapidly when extreme weather comes.

Not exact matches

There's still a lot we don't know about why some weather is so extreme and how much climate change is to blame (especially when it comes to hurricanes).

2014.04.29 Canadian homeowners are the first line of defence when it comes to managing emergencies In advance of Emergency Preparedness Week, RBC Insurance provides advice for dealing with extreme weather...

When arranging staff housing Mount Snow makes every effort to consider location and proximity to the MOOver route, however staff should be prepared for walking moderate terrain and possible extreme weather conditions.

In a reversal of scenes from last year, when the Conservatives attacked Labour for being unprepared for the extreme weather conditions, shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle attacked her government counterpart, Philip Hammond for not organising a better government response to the snow.

«This is wrong and very unhelpful at a time when we are all working hard to minimise the impact of extreme weather.»

As any animal lover will tell you, the carriage drivers you support spew hate when anyone expresses concern for the horses they force to work in all weather extremes, and during Pride weekend it was captured on video.

They also have good traction and will help keep you safe and on your feet when the weather conditions are a little extreme.

OSHA compliant for professional work - site use, the CAT also performs well in extreme temperatures, so you don't have to worry about storing or using it when the weather acts up.

That attitude changed in October 2016, when the outgoing Obama administration issued an executive order aimed at preparing the country for extreme space weather.

Another reason for choosing it in the modeled study is winter wheat can withstand extreme winter weather conditions and provides a good option to control wind erosion during early spring, when the region commonly experiences high winds, Ale 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.

Their work, which links ancient climate and archaeological data, could help modern communities identify new crops and other adaptive strategies when threatened by drought, extreme weather and other environmental challenges.

When these airy tendrils make landfall, they can cause severe floods and other extreme weather events.

«The responses of fish species to extreme weather events will need to be considered when planning management strategies to ensure efforts are appropriately targeted to maintain key population segments and critical evacuation routes,» said Dave Secor, the study's co-author at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.

While most scientists don't dispute the link between global warming and extreme weather, the once skeptical public is now starting to come around — especially following 2011, when floods, droughts, heat waves and tornadoes took a heavy toll on the U.S..

The challenge lies in the fact that natural variability is always a part of any extreme weather event, so when scientists do attribution exercises, they are trying to discern the human signal out of the noise.

When the Nobel Prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report last November predicting more extreme weather, the organizers of collegiate and professional sports were already one step ahead of the news.

«The ice responded much more dramatically to the «extreme weather» than it would have when the ice cover was thicker and more extensive back in the 1980s and earlier,» says Meier.

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.

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When it comes to extreme weather Japan's population have more on their minds than a repeat of last summer's record - breaking temperatures, when some 170 died from heat strWhen it comes to extreme weather Japan's population have more on their minds than a repeat of last summer's record - breaking temperatures, when some 170 died from heat strwhen some 170 died from heat stroke.

Although I do want to emphasize that when we are looking at resilience of energy infrastructure it will be broader than just extreme weather events.

«We are now able to connect the dots when it comes to human - caused global warming and an array of extreme recent weather events,» said Mann.

When it comes to extreme weather events, last year's Oct. 3 - 5 blizzard that dumped anywhere from 20 to 55 inches of snow on western South Dakota was devastating.

An extreme weather event becomes a disaster when society and / or ecosystems are unable to cope with it effectively.

When you consider we are already putting record amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere now, with extreme weather as a result, fires, floods, rising seas and all that — a 30 % INCREASE as the century goes forward must be absolutely disastrous.

Wehner pointed out that while humans can (and do) perform well in identifying and tracking extreme weather events in real time, they simply can not keep up when climate models run two to five orders of magnitude faster.

Francis argued that the warming of the Arctic, at a much faster pace than the mid-latitudes, is slowing the jet stream and prompting extreme weather events when there's weak atmospheric flow.

However, when a pattern of extreme weather persists for some time, it may be classed as an extreme climate event, perhaps associated with anomalies in SSTs (such as El Niño).

That's your best friend at any time, but when the weather is unpredictable, or you're hopping between extremes of temperature, it's your pal for life (well, for some time, anyway).

Even when I lived in places with extreme weather, I used layers, but still wore same clothes year round.

Senior people over 50 will also often take their daily exercise walk at the mall, doing what is termed as «mall walking» when the weather outside is inclimate, whether it's rain, sleet, snow or extreme heat.

This movie attempts to have a broad appeal for all ages, but the extreme weather situations may have some young children running for cover when a breeze comes through their bedroom window.

When a plane crashes in the remote Alaskan wilderness, the survivors must battle extreme weather conditions, devastating injuries and a pack...