Sentences with phrase «above average winters»

46 states had above average winters, with Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, all having record warm winters.

Temperatures in Alaska hit 11C above average this winter.

Not exact matches

After a tough winter, Bitcoin seems to be back on track, trading well above $ 9,000, yet meeting strong 200 - day moving average resistance around the $ 9,800 mark.

Notably, above - average rain and snowfall this winter in California has supported high levels of hydropower generation that may also be contributing to recent pricing patterns.

Winter rainfall was generally above average, and although September was unseasonably warm and dry in New South Wales and Queensland, good rainfall occurred in October.

Although considered a relatively mild winter, with late January and February temperatures above average, the devastatingly cold weather experienced from late November through to early January saw the number of deaths rise above the national average, peaking during the first week of January 2011 with almost 3500 more deaths than the five - year average for that time of year.

The model was used to analyze average summer and winter temperatures for the Pacific Southwest, Prairie and North Atlantic regions (seen in the image above)-- regions that represent three distinct climates.

However, when runoff - season temperatures were above average, streamflow was less than expected on the basis of winter precipitation.

Scientists suggest that above - average winter temperatures were correlated with La Niña events, which were ultimately a good predictor of drought that reduced available nesting cover in the spring.

However, La Nina winters tend to favor above average snowfall around the Great Lakes and in the northern Rockies and below average snowfall in the mid-Atlantic.

Slush Dogs For the first time in the Iditarod's 44 - year history, organizers imported snow for the sled dog race via the Alaska Railroad, as winter and spring temperatures climbed 9 degrees F above average, shattering a decades - old record.

Specifically, a region would experience less seasonal snow if average winter temperatures were initially above minus 14 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit).

Much of central and northern Alaska had much above average temperatures during 2015, while the Aleutians and parts of southern Alaska, including the panhandle were record warm, The 2014/15 winter temperature across Alaska was 11.6 °F, 8.0 °F above average.

The winter started warmer than average with the December temperature 4.1 °F above average, the warmest December since 1957.

In fact, the warm minimum temperature component was 590 percent above average, marking the largest warm minimum temperature component on record for autumn or any season (winter, spring, summer, autumn) on record.

The winter (Dec - Feb) USCEI was 15 percent above average.

An above - average winter wet season was needed to make a significant dent in the drought, but the year ended around normal.

Cohen has published research showing that above average fall snowfall in Siberia can lead to colder and snowier winters in the U.S..

Even though these are the same areas that tend to have above average temperatures during El Niño winters, this pattern is also consistent with the long - term trend we are seeing with global warming.

This winter, that warmth reached astounding levels, with air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean ranging from 4 °F to 11 °F (2 °C to 6 °C) above average in nearly every region.

A «heatwave» in mid-November caused some parts of the Arctic to be 15C warmer than usual, with average temperatures for November and December across the Arctic as a whole a full 5C above the long term average, according to the quickfire analysis of this year's unusual winter.

NOAA Forecasts US Likely to Have Above - Average Winter Temperatures; La Niña Arrives, Southern Drought Concerns

Unemployment sits at just above 4 %, incomes are among the highest in the country, crime rates are steadily falling, and while its winters can be skin - splittingly cold (averaging 28 days a year with a minimum temperature below -20 ˚C), there's plenty of sun all year round.

Last year's mild winter was characterized by above - average temperatures and less snowfall, encouraging fleas and ticks to «emerge from their dormant life cycles» sooner than they otherwise would have, says Dwight Holcomb, president / CEO of LifePet Organic, Inc., a Pasadena, Calif. - based company that provides all - natural, bio-based solutions for dogs and cats.

It's pretty common in the winter months to see swells that are well above the height of an average man, surfers call those size ways «over head.»

Summer highs are in the low»80s, and winters average comfortably above freezing in the 40s.

Yes, Northern Hemisphere, Eurasia and N. America have had their share of above average extents in fall and winter (/ / climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover)(check out monthly and seasonal graphs), but not an inordinate number.

1) Stabilize temperature at 5 — 9 °C above the 1986 — 2005 average over the Arctic Ocean in winter.

This would actually not be true at sufficiently high latitudes in the winter hemisphere, except that some circulation in the upper atmosphere is driven by kinetic energy generated within the troposphere (small amount of energy involved) which, so far as I know, doesn't result in much of a global time average non-radiative energy flux above the tropopause, but it does have important regional effects, and the result is that the top of the stratosphere is warmer than the tropopause at all latitudes in all seasons so far as I know.

As a result of above - normal temperatures this winter, EIA projects that households will need less natural gas for heating, consuming an average level of about 62.3 thousand cubic feet this winter.

The seasonal averages shown in time - series graphs are defined as above, with the winter of one year starting in the December of the previous year.

While generators used more natural gas for electricity generation, overall CO2 emissions from natural gas were down because of lower gas heating demand this winter when temperatures were significantly above the historical average for the season.

By Wednesday, the North Pole is expected to see temperatures in the range of 1 - 2 degrees Celsius or 41 - 42 degrees C above average (73 - 75 degrees Fahrenheit above the normal daily temperature of -40 F for a typical Winter day).

So the climate forecasters have not given up with southern Calif. getting above average rainfall this winter, even if it means it will happen in the late part of winter or into the spring

The center says it's been a warm fall and winter for the Arctic Ocean, with temperatures averaging 4 - and - a-half-degrees Fahrenheit above the norm.

So while it was a generally warmer (and drier) than usual winter it also wasn't the warmest ever, with the official NIWA statement being «The nation - wide mean temperature was 1.2 °C above the winter average, based on NIWA's seven - station temperature series, making this the warmest winter on record since 1909.»

These aspects might just mean that the effects on the climate in the southern tier of states should be as expected for a moderately strong El Nino instead of an outright strong one, so that we would still expect above - average probabilities for a wet winter in the southern tier.

There's still the chance for above average rainfall duirng the remainder of the winter, including late February, March and the first half of April.

In general terms a reversal of the PJS northward migration, with the PJS often south of the BI, a greater incidence of meridonal synoptic patterns, the ending of our regime of «barbecue summers» and mild winters, replaced with monsoon summers and cold winters, and the cessation of the almost continuous above average montly CET trend (which now appears to be cooling).

Most of the Arctic experienced above - average temperatures all winter, with temperatures occasionally reaching more than 20 °F above average.

On March 24, 2016, just four days after the end of astronomical winter [6]-- which saw temperatures from 11 to 14 °F above average in the central Arctic — sea ice in the Arctic hit 5.607 million mi ² (14.52 million km ²), its lowest annual maximum since records began in 1979.

A very warm measure for this region during winter time — representing an anomaly at least 20 degrees Celsius above average.

The U.S. state experiences one of its warmest winter periods on record during the second half of January, including some temperatures that ran 40 degrees Fahrenheit (22 degrees Celsius) above average.

Wet weather in winter usually means temperatures have been mild, and the UK mean temperature up to 28 January was 4.9 C (41F)- 1.2 C above average.

One example I like was a relatively recent explanation of why the Earth was warming and why the temperatures in winter were lower than average; the reason was apparently that an ocean warmer than the atmosphere above was taking heat out of the atmosphere resulting in cooler winter temperatures.

Chris Rapley, professor of climate science at University College London and a former director of the British Antarctic Survey, says: «Temperatures in the Arctic over the last winter have been running as much as 10 °C above the 1981 - 2010 average, and are still 2 ° -3 °C higher.

But the ice has been thinning as well as dwindling in area, and temperatures earlier in the winter were unusually high: 20 °C above the average for the time of the year.

The seasonal averages are defined as above, with the winter of one year starting in December of the previous year.

The «timeless» Farmers» Almanac says, «the Southeast will see below normal winter temperatures with an unseasonable chill reaching as far south as the Gulf Coast, with above - average precipitation.»

It will always come back to the fact that, nominally, it's all about the Sun — e.g., Farmers Almanac is predicting another cold wet winter despite the increase over the years in the amount of atmospheric CO2: No region will see prolonged spells of above - normal temperatures; only near the West and East Coasts will temperatures average close to normal.