(1) That means floods, droughts, heatwaves and heavy rainstorms are much more likely, as global warming gathers pace.
(2) Another risk is to Wi-Fi internet access and other communications because higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables.
(3) As for the rainstorm in the US, its fatal unpredictability was shown when a Thursday morning downpour dumped 4 inches on Spartanburg, South Carolina, causing flash floods that submerged several cars.
(4) A dangerous rainstorm drenching the US east coast brought more misery on Sunday to South Carolina , cutting power to thousands, forcing hundreds of water rescues and closing scores of roads because of floodwaters.
(5) Presenting the report, the secretary of state for the environment, Caroline Spelman, said that higher temperatures can reduce the range of wireless communications, rainstorms can impact the reliability of the signal, and drier summers and wetter winters may cause greater subsidence, damaging masts and underground cables.
(6) A deadly rainstorm led to tragedy and much destruction this week in Salgar, Colombia .
(7) Weather officials said the mountains and the Antelope Valley foothills north-east of Los Angeles were under the most risk, but there was only a small chance of rainstorms like those that prompted flooding in California on Thursday.
(8) The experiments reported in this paper were designed to examine the collection efficiency of gummed paper for wet deposition of several types of soluble and insoluble radioactive contaminants under conditions similar to those found during natural rainstorms.
(9) The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) Justice Ginsburg: 'Throwing out preclearance...is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet' June 25, 2013 She appeals to Congress' right to reauthorize the legislation (as it did most recently based in 2006) on its own judgment, based on current conditions, and lists a number of recent examples of where discrimination has taken place.
(10) The pigs are prodigious diggers and tropical island's torrential rainstorms then wash the soil out to the waters that are home to renowned sharks and corals.
(11) Using surface concentration and reaction rate as the main criteria for the feasibility of condensation reactions, four types of prebiotic environments were analyzed: (1) an ocean-sediment system, (2) a dehydrated lagoon bed produced by evaporation, (3) the surface of a frozen sediment, and (4) a fluctuating system where hydration (rainstorms, tidal variations, flooding) and dehysration (evaporation) take place in a cyclic manner.
(12) Europe, overall, was warmer than usual but the heat turned quickly to massive rainstorms.
(13) The mudslides that accompany tropical rainstorms often leave thousands homeless and forced to seek shelter in informal settlements.
(14) A rainstorm an hour before kick-off had softened the ground at the Lamex Stadium.
(15) OCLP closed its final polling station at the university's student union building at 10pm local time on Sunday, amid intermittent rainstorms.
(16) At least 169 were killed by a massive rainstorm in the summer of 2012.
(17) It was almost midnight, curfew time, and a rainstorm unleashed thunder and lightning over Ferguson, the Missouri town rocked by a week of race-fuelled violence.
(18) But as Justice Ginsburg wrote in her striking dissent, ‘Throwing out pre-clearance when it has worked and is continuing to work … is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.’
(19) But Feinstein reserves great praise for a key scene in which Stone and Firth shelter from a rainstorm together: it possesses an "aching beauty" and is "pure magic".
(20) The end of the epidemic coincided with a heavy rainstorm.
Snowstorm
Definition:
(n.) A storm with falling snow.
Example Sentences:
(1) When a snowstorm not only paralyzes a community but also isolates its hospital or hospitals, contingency plans and procedures ensure the effective administration and operation of a health care facility during the emergency.
(2) So far so good,” said Baker, who was managing his first snowstorm since being sworn in earlier this month.
(3) deaths were increased for 8 days after a snowstorm, suggesting that the effect was related to activities such as snow shovelling rather than the storm itself.
(4) Record snowstorms can occur during warm years, too, one study found : while the researchers documented an increase in extreme regional snowstorms over five decades, they noted that about a third of those storms happened during years that were warmer than average.
(5) The Costa Ricans lost 1-0 in a match that was played in a snowstorm in Colorado .
(6) They inhibit adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-induced platelet aggregation, and the release of platelet factor 3 by kaolin, and VK 774 also reduces platelet adhesiveness and inhibits platelet aggregation (;snowstorm' effect) in the Chandler tube system.
(7) "It would have been nice to have talked about how to handle a snowstorm in an abstract exercise, but we didn't get to do that, we got the real thing."
(8) They held their televised press conference outside the White House in a snowstorm, a nature-made bathetic fallacy.)
(9) Climate scientists have linked the massive snowstorms and bitter spring weather now being experienced across Britain and large parts of Europe and North America to the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice.
(10) Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem, described the snowstorm as a "tsunami", for which the city council was unprepared.
(11) A snowstorm that hit along the Utah-Arizona border left hundreds of travelers stranded on Interstate 15 overnight into Sunday.
(12) The USA moved into second place after beating Costa Rica 1-0 in a snowstorm last week .
(13) The main reason was said to be that climbers who started their ascent late in the day were caught in a snowstorm in the afternoon and lost their way.
(14) And I can tramp through snowstorms late at night when no one is stirring and feel the kind of excitement John Muir (father of the US national parks) must have felt when he spent a stormy night up a tree just to embrace it and know what it endured in the absence of reportorial creatures.
(15) This winter has been harsh, with several major snowstorms, and each morning I emerge from my own little piece of hell to continue distributions.
(16) The roof leaks, and the recent snowstorm has flooded his crowded space, destroying electrical equipment.
(17) Inspired by what she said were Hamid’s “very laudable ideals”, Abdul drove through snowstorms to get to Reno from Silicon Valley.
(18) Is that dangerous – to be inebriated in a snowstorm on a very cold night on the top of a very cold mountain without a soul around?
(19) In his beautiful book The Moth Snowstorm , Michael McCarthy suggests that a capacity to love the natural world, rather than merely to exist within it, might be a uniquely human trait.
(20) A major snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow in cities across the north-east US early Friday morning, causing thousands of flight cancellations, school closures and paralysing road travel.