These storms alter the coastline, flush decaying vegetation from estuaries, strip weakened branches from trees, and disperse seeds, pollen, and plant material.
Fundamentally, the notion of what constitutes a powerful storm has been altered.
Relative sea-level rise, erosion, and severe storms continuously alter the landscape.
First, the background: Scientists are still figuring out how storms will be altered as global warming proceeds, but they are pretty certain about some things.
In the case of the Sichuan storms, soot had altered air circulation patterns and redistributed rainfall.
A1 Subtle shifts in conditions that altered the storm's power and path became evident only late Sunday.
Truly, Rye Gogan's storm-cloud attentions had altered the barometric pressure at their table.
Gary went to Southern Leyte and Bicol and brought messages of hope to families whose lives were forever altered by storms, floods and mudslides.
But the storm did not alter the fact that summer was slowly shading into fall.
This could alter storm tracks, rainfall patterns and food production far to the south.
