Climatologists want to know how these factors have changed in the past, and how they will change in the future. Changnon and his team studied temperature records from Chicago and 13 other sites in the Midwest. “These two changes –lower temperatures and more rainfall--- may be connected by...
Nineteen lawn and garden sprinkling rain gauges and one US standard nonrecording rain gauge were installed to monitor rainfall distribution in eight compass directions in and around the city of Nacogdoches, Texas. Based on 49 rainfalls observed between 1987 to March 1988, rainfall was greater in ...
The average speed of tropical cyclone (TC) translation has slowed since the mid 20th century. Here we report that North Atlantic (NA) TCs have become increasingly likely to “stall” near the coast, spending many hours in confined regions. The stalling i
Harvey sets rainfall, damage records in Texas and Louisiana By Jordan Benjamin Aug. 30, 2017 Harvey unleashed over 25 trillion gallons of water on Texas and Louisiana; to understand just how much water this is, consider that if this volume was placed on MIT’s campus, it would extend abou...
A In Washington.B In Texas.C.In Nebraska. 12.What is the woman's job? A, She is an artist. B. She is a banker. C, She is a computer programmer. 13. How did the woman know about fhe apartment? A From a fr...
Much of the eastern third of the United States will see near- to above-average rainfall this month. Drier-than-average conditions are forecast from the Midwest and the Plains through a good part of the West. Near- to below-average precipitation is expected across Alaska and Hawaii. In Canada...
Millions more properties than previously known in South Texas and across the U.S. are at substantial risk of flooding.
文章第二段第二句话举例说明: “For example, Ho Chi Minh City and Sydney were among the wettest anomalies, each with over 100 millimetres more rainfall than their surroundings per year.” 例如,胡志明市和悉尼是降雨量最多的反常地区,每年降雨量都比周边地区多100多毫米。 由此可知,“湿岛”指的是...
Houston, Texas It doesn’t take long for Houston to get hot.On average, Houston experiences around100 days each yearwherethe temperature is over 90 degrees Fahrenheit. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Houston is also known for havingextremely high humidity, often around 90%. ...
Concentrations of population AAE generally fall within populous US states (Fig.4b). Populations of 547,000, 345,000, 247,000 and 247,000 in Florida, California, New York and Texas, respectively, are expected to be impacted by flooding every year, on average, under current conditions. Proporti...