Sentence examples for weather floods from inspiring English sources

Environmentally stochastic events are random events, such as severe weather, floods, fires, and other ecological disturbances.

"The home-insurance market is very competitive, but its profitability is dependent on severe weather, floods, freezes and subsidence," he said.

It's also what an executive at a giant bank in Lower Manhattan said after Hurricane Sandy: companies like his weather floods because they've got insurance.

Now, it stands at 398ppm – not far short of the 450ppm that scientists estimate as the threshold beyond which our climate will change drastically and irrevocably, bringing extremes of weather, floods, droughts, heatwaves, and rendering swaths of the globe virtually uninhabitable.

In Orleans I met Zack Taylor from the local Forest Service office, who took me down to the banks of Klamath River just below the Orleans Bridge, an unexpectedly dramatic suspension span over the river built in 1966 to weather floods that have historically surged down the river canyon in rainy years.

In a typically understated claim, he cautioned "we have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced".

But in the last few years uncharacteristic and unpredictable weather – flooding, frosts, hail, intense heat and drought – has bombarded it.

Without action now, extreme weather, flooding and other global warming effects are projected to be a $271 billion annual drag on the economy by 2025.

Recent wet summer weather, flooding, and boulder-berm deposition in the UK (2007 2012) are related to a pronounced negative phase shift of the SNAO.

The severity of the weather flooded several campsites, the worst affected being the base of Pennard Hill, and seriously disrupted site services.

In places where extreme weather, flooding and desertification threaten agriculture -- think sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia -- farming techniques like those used by Aerofarms could take off.