Sentences with phrase «hotter than average temperatures»

Hotter than average temperatures are already the new normal, but deniers are just as certain to hijack selective evidence.

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The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average of 54.3 degrees F. «We had our fourth warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.
Last week's daily temperatures across the Darling Downs in the high 30's and sometime nudging 40 Celsius were 6 to 8 degrees hotter than the average for this time of the year.
The hottest part of the region has been drought - stricken Arizona, where average temperatures have risen some 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit — 120 percent greater than the global rise — between 2003 and 2007.
It's an area described as a climate «hot spot,» with temperatures in many parts rising faster than the global average.
These are impulsive heating bursts that individually reach incredibly hot temperatures of some 10 million Kelvins or 18 million degrees Fahrenheit - even greater than the average temperature of the corona - and provide heat to the atmosphere.
For now, 2016 still stands as the hottest year of all time, a year when no land area on Earth experienced lower - than - average temperatures.
Nevertheless, Earthlings would not mistake Gliese 581g for their home planet — in addition to its so - called super-Earth dimensions, it orbits a star far smaller and dimmer than the sun, and its average surface temperatures would vary dramatically, from well below freezing on its night side to scorching hot on the day side.
The U.S. is still cruising toward its second - hottest year on record going back more than 120 years, with every state in the Lower 48, as well as Alaska, recording well above - average temperatures through October.
This final eruption was the brightest ever recorded, and is thought to have reached temperatures much hotter than those created in the average eruption taking place back on Earth.
Phoenix has an arid climate and some of the hottest seasonal temperatures in the U.S.. Its residents see an average of 325 sunny days and less than eight inches of rain each year.
In 2013, the hottest day of the year was August 1st, when temperatures reached a staggering 35 °C — that's 10 °C hotter than the relative average for that day.
Relative to the average, the hottest day of the year was September 5th, which had a high temperature of 33 °C — that's 11 °C higher than the average.
Average daytime temperatures are slowly on the increase and March is 1 °C hotter than last month at 29 °C between average high / lows of 34 °C and 23 °C respecAverage daytime temperatures are slowly on the increase and March is 1 °C hotter than last month at 29 °C between average high / lows of 34 °C and 23 °C respecaverage high / lows of 34 °C and 23 °C respectively.
Coupled with an average humidity of 85 %, the temperature may feel hotter than it really is.
Global warming does not mean no winter, it means winter start later, summer hotter, as Gary Peters said «The global average surface temperature has risen between 0.6 °C and 0.7 °C since the start of the twentieth century, and the rate of increase since 1976 has been approximately three times faster than the century - scale trend.»
An excerpt: «However, [Thomas] Karl also stated that 2015 was not the hottest year in the lower troposphere, the lowest section of the Earth's atmosphere, despite what could be an historically strong El Nino causing warmer - than - average temperatures.
Scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa calculated that by 2047, plus or minus five years, the average temperatures in each year will be hotter across most parts of the planet than they had been at those locations in any year between 1860 and 2005.
Hotter temperatures: If emissions keep rising unchecked, then global average surface temperatures will be at least 2ºC higher (3.6 ºF) than pre-industrial levels by 2100 — and possibly 3ºC or 4ºC or more.
In 2005, during the hottest average decade on record, 8 low - wind conditions known as «the doldrums» combined with very high ocean temperatures to cause massive coral bleaching in the Virgin Islands.9 This was followed by a particularly severe outbreak of at least five coral diseases in the Virgin Islands, resulting in a decline in coral cover of about 60 percent.9 There is some indication that higher ocean temperatures — between 86 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit (30 to 35 degrees Celsius)-- promote optimal growth of several coral pathogens.9 Other research showed that elkhorn coral post-bleaching had larger disease lesions than unbleached specimens, suggesting that bleaching may increase the corals» susceptibility to disease.9, 10
Pregnant women exposed to hot average temperature have higher risk for gestational diabetes than soon - to - be mothers who are exposed to colder temperatures.
So for us people with some engineering experience, that gives us an intuitive feel for why temperatures are hotter over land than what is in the average SST data.
According to NASA GISS, September of 2014 saw global surface temperatures that were 0.77 C hotter than the 20th Century average.
Right now, annual global average temperature is about 1 ° Celsius hotter than average, and we're already locked into at least another 0.5 ° of warming.
In some regions, there is evidence that the hottest temperatures may increase at a faster rate than the average, further stacking the deck in favor of extreme heat.
In total, the global temperature in 2013 averaged 14.6 degrees Celsius (58.3 degrees Fahrenheit), or 0.6 degrees Celsius (1.1 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than the 20th Century average.
more than 115,000 years ago, when the Earth's average atmospheric temperatures rose by about 4 °C hotter than the 20
One of these, reported in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, coincided with a spell between the Ice Ages, more than 115,000 years ago, when the Earth's average atmospheric temperatures rose by about 4 °C hotter than the 20th - century average.
It's also worth noting that according to the instrumental temperature record, average surface temperatures for 1982 — 2012 have been about 0.2 °C hotter than the 1970 — 2000 average.
Well then it would be like the passive solar hot water system that does not have a defined lapse rate but does convect under a varying heat source and averages a greater temperature than the ambient local temperature (which has the GHG effect included already).
In fact, our research suggests that with 2 ℃ of global warming, the future average sea temperatures around the Great Barrier Reef would be even hotter than the extremes observed around the time of the 2016 bleaching.
Without the present atmosphere and the GHE the hottest parts of the surface would be a hotter than they are now during the day, but during the night even those parts would be cold and their average temperature over 24 hours would be moderate.
In context, the current drought emergency has taken place as global temperatures hit near 1.2 degrees Celsius hotter than 1880s averages.
Currently, human warming by Greenhouse gasses has pushed global average surface temperatures into a range about 1 degree Celsius hotter than the 1880s.
The MITS reasons that one molecule moving at ten times the average speed of air molecules at sea level must be much hotter than average, but this only shows a lack of appreciation for how something like temperature becomes meaningless without an abstraction on which to base it.
We should all be highly alarmed by the fact that throughout the Arctic above 70 degrees north latitude, January temperatures averaged between 7 and 23 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than usual for, most incredibly, the entire month.
They found out how to contain overall global temperature rise to the predicted 2020 average: some regions however became — in their computer models — hotter or cooler than the citizens might appreciate.
«There is the potential for extremely hot summertime temperatures in the future, especially during summers with less - than - average frequent rainfall,» said lead author Barry Lynn of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University, New York.
The shade of red in the Arctic hot spot means that today's temperature is 35 degrees F «hotter» than that normal average.
But the hottest region proved to be Eastern Siberia, where temperatures hit more than 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th Century average.
April temperatures were 1.5 °F (0.9 °C) warmer worldwide than the 1950 to 1980 average, NASA data released May 15 showed, extending to three a string of hot months in which temperatures were surpassed just once in history.
Notice that one way the system can avoid increasing its average temperature is by making the temperature more unevenly distributed — an extremely hot place far to the pole can radiate so effectively as to more than balance out a comparably cool place near the pole.
A hot - humid climate is defined as a region that receives more than 20 inches (50 cm) of annual precipitation with approximately 6,300 cooling degree days (50 degrees F basis)[3,500 cooling degree days (10 degrees C basis)-RSB- or greater and where the monthly average outdoor temperature remains above 45 degrees F (7 degrees C) throughout the year.
A hot - dry climate is defined as region that receives less than 20 inches (50 cm) of annual precipitation with approximately 6,300 cooling degree days (50 degrees F basis)[3,500 cooling degree days (10 degrees C basis)-RSB- or greater and where the monthly average outdoor temperature remains above 45 degrees F (7 degrees C) throughout the year.
Maximum temperatures during the hottest heat waves have in the last 30 years risen three times faster — especially in crowded cities that are home to more than 10 million — than average temperatures as a whole.
This 1938 - 39 summer was 3 °C hotter than the average - maximum summer temperature at Rutherglen for the entire period: December 1912 to February 2016.
During hot, humid summer weather, many urban areas experience heat inversions — cold air in the upper atmosphere holds much warmer air close to the ground, sustaining higher - than - average temperatures and trapping smog.
However, Karl also stated that 2015 was not the hottest year in the lower troposphere, the lowest section of the Earth's atmosphere, despite what could be an historically strong El Nino causing warmer - than - average temperatures.
«The World's Best Practice climate models predicted Australia would be hotter than normal in September, instead the maximum temperature anomaly was 1 to 5 degrees below average across most of Australia.»
Phoenix has an arid climate and some of the hottest seasonal temperatures in the U.S.. Its residents see an average of 325 sunny days and less than eight inches of rain each year.
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