Sentences with phrase «winter precipitation amounts»

For instance, mean variance of MCA winter precipitation amounts was more variable than those of the LIA for ensemble members 3 and 5 (p < 0.05).

Not exact matches

Why It Matters: On average, atmospheric rivers hit the western United States only a few times each winter, but they transport significant amounts of moisture that converges in the mountains producing heavy precipitation.

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.

To see how winter precipitation is changing, we looked at states that all see notable amounts of snow (sorry, Florida).

The open Arctic is such a prolific producer of precipitation that the increased winter snowfall amounts to more than the oblique rays of the sun can melt away during the short northern summer.

Instrumental records have shown that hydroclimatic variability across the American Southwest is mostly structured around cool - season precipitation regimes, with a few winter storms typically contributing a disproportionately large amount of the annual precipitation across this region [15].

Northeast BC experienced a dry winter with low snow packs and these conditions are revealed as below normal to much below normal precipitation amounts in January and March (seasonal values are shown in Figure 3a).

According to data from the Salekhard weather station the recent mean air summer temperature was 0.9 °C higher and winter was 1.2 °C higher than between 1883 and 1919; and the amount of precipitation also increased by 32 mm in summer and by 46 mm in winter.

One datum that would help a lot would be the amount of precipitation, snow and rain combined, over those snowy winters.

For example, a recent study on the severe flooding in England in the winter of 2013/14 found that as well as increasing the amount of moisture the atmosphere can hold, human - caused warming had slightly increased the number of January days with the type of wind patterns that favour extreme precipitation.