Predictions for 2050 suggest a 40% loss of forest, meaning significantly less rain and 35-40 less electric power.
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Ice cover loss can influence winds and precipitation on other continents, possibly leading to less rain in the western United States and creating more in Europe.
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Last year, India received less rain in the first half of the June-September monsoon season than usual, hitting western India, which has endured a two year-long dry spell, particularly hard.
Following a second quarter that was the wettest on record, the Olympics period in central London brought slightly less rain than normal, a spokeswoman for the Met Office, the U.K. weather agency, said Sunday.
On July 2, 2011, a cloud burst inundated Copenhagen with 6 inches of rain in less than three hours, flooding cellars, streets, and key roads.
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The Negev gets less than 100mm of rain per year, most of which is washed away in flash floods down mountainsides, so the use of irrigation is not necessarily new.
Data suggests Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and Galloway had 249mm of rain and 68.6 hours of sunshine - more rain and less sun than it had in the past 10 years.
In marked contrast, some places across the eastern half of England recorded less than 1 mm of rain in the whole month.
The Los Angeles area has received less than 2 inches of rain since January, making the bone-dry region "definitely ripe for these fires, " said William Patzert, a NASA climatologist.
Because one thing that's happening is that there's generally a bit more rain and a bit less snow in many places.
Ferretti, vice president at the Chicago Climate Exchange, extolled emissions trading, noting that the practice had helped bring sulfur dioxide and acid rain under control much less expensively than traditional command-and-control regulation.
As a result, since 2005 the website has called for rain when there is no measurable downpour less than one-hundredth of an inch nearly twice as often as it has shown no rain in its icons before rain occurs, according to the website Forecast Advisor, which tracks weather forecasts.
Such clouds would persist for an unusually long time because small water droplets are less likely than big ones to turn into rain.
It would arrive late more often, yield less water, become more sporadic, or dump rain in shorter, more destructive bursts (which happened two years ago in Pakistan, where the Indus basin disastrously flooded).
Well as far as the U.S. is concerned, a March 2006 NOAA study published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association reports that conditions during the twentieth century have become wetter (more precipitation), but less extreme in terms of severe flood-producing hydrological (rain storm) occurrences.
Secondly, if you make life difficult for yourself - perhaps by shooting into the light or in very difficult conditions such as heavy rain, driving snow or stormy seas - there will be less chance of you overlapping with other photographers' work and your images stand a chance of being far more striking.
The rain then returned and when it finally relented the Scots were suddenly left with less than fours overs in their innings.
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To avoid the rain: in most of the Northeast, Midwest, and Plains, it rains less in the spring than in the height of summer, but in many Southern states, it rains less in the summer than in the spring.
It is hard now to believe that in 1902 a tiger was shot under the billiard table (that the big cat emerged from a circus rather than virgin rain-forest, and was shot by a school headmaster, makes the story no less exotic).
What they found was that during a period of less than two weeks in 1996, Atlanta's heat island caused convective thunderstorms, causing it to rain on the city or to the south and southeast about 50 or 60 miles, says Dale Quattrochi of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
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