Sentences with phrase «as average winter temperatures»

Not exact matches

Oregon and Washington experienced much higher - than - average temperatures during the 2014 - 15 winter but were not as dry overall as California.

As temperatures drop from balmy summertime averages of 14 degrees Fahrenheit to as low as minus 50 in winter, buried ice contracts, forming vertical fractures that extend down into the glacier several yards, and can be several feet wide at the toAs temperatures drop from balmy summertime averages of 14 degrees Fahrenheit to as low as minus 50 in winter, buried ice contracts, forming vertical fractures that extend down into the glacier several yards, and can be several feet wide at the toas low as minus 50 in winter, buried ice contracts, forming vertical fractures that extend down into the glacier several yards, and can be several feet wide at the toas minus 50 in winter, buried ice contracts, forming vertical fractures that extend down into the glacier several yards, and can be several feet wide at the top.

But when average temperatures rise, as is happening in many places around the world because of climate change, big blocks of ice melt more quickly than they can grow during the winter.

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.

These two competing effects cancel each other out, meaning little change in the average temperature of European winters as a consequence of sea - ice loss».

The Gulf of Thailand changes from an atmospheric CO2 sink during the boreal winter to a CO2 source in summer due to higher water temperatures, while other sub-regions as well as the entire averaged Sunda Shelf act as a continuous source of CO2 for the atmosphere.

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.

For cold - weather testing, Jaguar turned to its test facility in Arjeplog, Sweden, where the average winter temperatures rarely exceed 5 - degrees Fahrenheit and can drop to as low as -40.

The average temperature of a toy dog, or teacup dog for that matter, is around 100 degrees Fahrenheit, so many kings and lords would have these tiny dogs as a means to stay warm in the winter.

If you think you've got it bad for snow this winter, take a moment to consider the people of Oymyakon, the world's coldest inhabited place where average winter temperatures dip to as low as − 50 °C (− 58 °F) and people risk frostbite, even if they step outside for just a few minutes.

If temperatures are at or below freezing (which is true even during this warmer - than - average winter in Colorado), that moisture will precipitate as snow, not rain.

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.»

4) Autumn and winter temperatures will increase by a regional average of 4 °C over the next 30 years — twice the warming projected for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole --

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.

However, between 1950 and 2010, the average temperature increased twice as quickly, and between 1980 and 2010, it increased three times as quickly as it did from 1900 to 2010.14 Warming has been more rapid at night and during winter.

As can be easily seen in this chart, the Earth is rapidly warming up from the NH winter, but the difference from the average temperature is very small.

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.

Kattel notes: «The average temperature in winter (11.55 deg C) and summer (23.780 deg C) was found maximum at the Airport as compared to other stations.»

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.»

Global solar irradiance reconstruction [48 — 50] and ice - core based sulfate (SO4) influx in the Northern Hemisphere [51] from volcanic activity (a); mean annual temperature (MAT) reconstructions for the Northern Hemisphere [52], North America [29], and the American Southwest * expressed as anomalies based on 1961 — 1990 temperature averages (b); changes in ENSO - related variability based on El Junco diatom record [41], oxygen isotopes records from Palmyra [42], and the unified ENSO proxy [UEP; 23](c); changes in PDSI variability for the American Southwest (d), and changes in winter precipitation variability as simulated by CESM model ensembles 2 to 5 [43].

And as go south past the Tropic of Cancer, Average temperature may get above 0 C, but during winter it can still snow and have freezing days during the winter [not be tropical - tropical plants die and will not grow.

However, much of the world had temperatures that winter that were well above their average, such as Siberia, China, Europe, Africa and Australia.

Over the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as rapidly as the rest of the United States, with state - wide average annual air temperature increasing by 3 °F and average winter temperature by 6 °F, with substantial year - to - year and regional variability.1 Most of the warming occurred around 1976 during a shift in a long - lived climate pattern (the Pacific Decadal Oscillation [PDO]-RRB- from a cooler pattern to a warmer one.

For example, the increase in average temperature from 1975 to 1998 was due to either no change in summer temps in temperate zones, or a drop in temperatures in the summer temporate zones, coupled with winters not getting as cold.

For example, during the 1920s warming in Greenland, at five coastal weather stations, the average annual temperature rose between 2 and 4 degrees Celsius [and by as much as 6 degrees Celsius in winter] in less than ten years.

Mongolia has been hit especially hard by global warming, with temperatures rising, on average, twice as fast as the global average - winter temperatures have jumped 3.6 °C over the last 60 years.

Many continental interiors warm approximately twice as fast as the global average, with this being particularly accentuated in boreal summer, and the winter - time Arctic Ocean temperatures rise more than three times faster than the global average.

Winter Visual inspection of the Global average temperature graph in GISS Hansen, J et al 2006 suggests that the period 1966 to 1980 was relatively stable with little net change in average global temperature and we will use this as a baseline against which we will assess later decades.

Mixed - Humid - A mixed - humid and warm - humid climate is defined as a region that receives more than 20 inches of annual precipitation with approximately 4,500 cooling degree days (50 °F basis) or greater and less than approximately 6,300 cooling degree days (50 °F basis) and less than approximately 5,400 heating degree days (65 °F basis) and where the average monthly outdoor temperature drops below 45 °F during the winter months.

A warm - dry and mixed - dry climate is defined as a region that receives less than 20 inches of annual precipitation with approximately 4,500 cooling degree days (50 °F basis) or greater and less than approximately 6,300 cooling degree days (50 °F basis) and less than approximately 5,400 heating degree days (65 °F basis) and where the average monthly outdoor temperature drops below 45 °F during the winter months.