News tagged with extreme rainfall


Floods to become commonplace by 2080

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (16) | comments 11

Flooding like that which devastated the North of England last year is set to become a common event across the UK in the next 75 years, new research has shown.


NASA's TRMM satellite captures rainfall from 2 typhoons that soaked Philippines

TRMM satellite captures rainfall from 2 typhoons that soaked Philippines

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created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Within a week's time, the northern Philippines were hit by two tropical cyclones that left behind more than 42 inches of rainfall to various areas, and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite ...





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Heavy rainfall on the increase

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 14, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have found that winter precipitation – such as rain and snow - became more intense in the UK during the last 100 years.


Under the weather: Early-life rainfall has lasting effect on Indonesian women

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Indonesian women born into rural communities in rainy years grow taller, stay in school longer and live in households with greater wealth than women born in years with lower rainfall, a new University of ...


Smaller storms drop larger overall rainfall in hurricane season

Smaller storms drop larger overall rainfall in hurricane season

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created Dec 10, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Researchers have found that when residents of the U.S. southeastern states look skyward for rain to alleviate a long-term drought, they should be hoping for a tropical storm over a hurricane for more reasons ...


Global Warming Computer Model

Climate change: When it rains it (really) pours

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created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (18) | comments 2

Climate models have long predicted that global warming will increase the intensity of extreme precipitation events. A new study conducted at the University of Miami and the University of Reading (U.K.) provides ...


A hard rain's gonna fall: Analysis shows climate change to yield more extreme rainfall

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created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heavier rainstorms lie in our future. That's the clear conclusion of a new MIT and Caltech study on the impact that global climate change will have on precipitation patterns.


Waterborne disease risk upped in Great Lakes

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An anticipated increased incidence of climate-related extreme rainfall events in the Great Lakes region may raise the public health risk for the 40 million people who depend on the lakes for their drinking water, according ...


Researchers Use Sun Cycle to Predict Rainfall Fluctuations

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created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The sun’s magnetic field may have a significant impact on weather and climatic parameters in Australia and other countries in the northern and southern hemispheres.


Extreme Weather Events

Extreme weather postpones the flowering time of plants

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Extreme weather events have a greater effect on flora than previously presumed. A one-month drought postpones the time of flowering of grassland and heathland plants in Central Europe by an average of 4 days. ...


TRMM Satellite sees Cyclone Cleo coming to a close

TRMM Satellite sees Cyclone Cleo coming to a close

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created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rainfall in the once-known Cyclone Cleo has really diminished over the last 24 hours, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite has confirmed it. Cleo is fading and the Joint Typhoon Warning ...


Satellite imagery confirms Ida's low is finally moving away from the east coast

Satellite imagery confirms Ida's low is finally moving away from the east coast

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created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Satellite imagery and weather ground station readings today along the Mid-Atlantic indicate "Ida the coastal low pressure area" is finally moving away from the U.S. east coast.



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