Climate
The average weather in an area over a period of time.
It is
the average weather in a place over more than thirty years.
Regional climate is often described as
the average weather in a place over more than 30 years.
«Despite colder than
average weather in any one part of the world,» said GISS Director Gavin Schmidt, «temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we have seen over the last 40 years.»
Not exact matches
The startup began by creating a Shazam - like song recognition app called Midomi; now, the newly released Hound app is capable of answering complex voice prompts like, «Show me all below -
average - priced restaurants within a five - mile radius that are open past 10 p.m. but don't include Chinese or pizza places,» or «What's the
weather like
in the capital of the biggest state
in the U.S.?»
Average home prices hover just under $ 1.6 - million
in this community, but this also buys you «exceptional schools, amazing
weather and a deep sense of community,» explains Morely Myron, realtor with Re / Max Colonial Pacific Realty.
Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's
weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth
in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194
in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year
average at March - end, the biggest
in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.
The lower lows and lower highs, along with the break below the 200 - day moving
average, presently situated at 1.3645, Domestic focus for the pound is now on today's release of the April services PMI, where we expect a 53.5 headline after a weak,
weather - impacted 51.7 reading
in March.
Cocoa prices are now trading below their 20 - day but still far above their 100 - day moving
average as the trend is mixed as prices topped out on April 2nd around 2647 as the hot and dry
weather conditions still do persist
in West Africa, but the commodity markets,
in general, are drifting lower due to the fact of the possible trade war with China.
Now if you go back ten years, a period that includes the bubble, the Group of Fifteen did better,
averaging a positive 8.13 % per year.Even for that ten year period, however, they underperformed the value group, on
average, by more than 5 % per year.6 With a good tailwind, those large cap funds were not great — underperforming the index by almost 2 % per year — and
in stormy
weather their boats leaked badly.
Additionally, investors looking to invest
in this space should seek out companies with a long track record and a healthy balance sheet that would be capable of
weathering a sustained period of above -
average catastrophe claims.
According to the Environment America Research and Policy Center, more than 15 million Americans live
in counties that have
averaged one or more
weather - related disasters per year since the beginning of 2006.
He has not really addressed the fact that the notion of climate, as distinct from the notion of
weather, is not concerned with particular features of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds of time and system
averages over many trajectories - and that these
average features tend to show certain kinds of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent
in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one of «not religious»).
You prepare for them by YEAR ROUND sending out teams, evaluating the environment and
weather trends, comparing past trends (firestorms
in Cali come about every 3 to 4 years on
average), future projections, and physical efforts to stop new burns from going out of control.
Thankfully, we're still
averaging the high 60s here
in the South, but cooler
weather and darker days have finally set
in across the country.
The Agency reminds us that small changes
in the
average temperature of the planet can translate to large and potentially dangerous shifts
in climate and
weather.
In the grain - growing areas we've had an
average winter crop but some of the more western regions missed out through a combination of dry
weather and frost,» he said.
In winter, the weather becomes coldest in July when the minimum averages 3.4 °C (38.1 °F) and the maximum gets to 13.2 °C (55.8 °F
In winter, the
weather becomes coldest
in July when the minimum averages 3.4 °C (38.1 °F) and the maximum gets to 13.2 °C (55.8 °F
in July when the minimum
averages 3.4 °C (38.1 °F) and the maximum gets to 13.2 °C (55.8 °F).
with local
weather patterns, but the consistent rise
in average global temperatures.
Most scientists and climatologists agree that weird
weather is at least
in part the result of global warming — a steady increase
in the
average temperature of the surface of the Earth thought to be caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses produced by human activity.
Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting
weather in every part of the United States, causing
average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.
Extreme
weather conditions can affect wage growth, which is the increase
in average county wages.
The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures
in the Arctic which have
averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme
weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.
When
in January rainfall was double the expected
average over wide areas, many people made cautious links between such extreme
weather and global climate change.
Wondering how that cold spell compares to recent times, atmospheric scientists Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aeronomy Laboratory
in Boulder, Colorado, and Chuck Stearns of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, tracked the
average monthly temperatures over the last 15 years at a series of four automated
weather stations located, by coincidence, along Scott's return route.
If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on —
weather events now considered extreme, like the one
in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people
in Africa were displaced, and the one
in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires
in Australia's history, will become
average by 2050.
The second simulation overlaid that same
weather data with a «pseudo global warming» technique using an accepted scenario that assumes a 2 - to 3 - degree increase
in average temperature, and a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Texas experienced blackouts
in February 2011, as colder - than -
average winter
weather simultaneously increased demand for electricity and damaged coal - fired power plants and wind turbines.
«Climate models have improved greatly
in the last 10 years, which allows us to look
in detail at the simulation of daily
weather rather than just monthly
averages,» said Pierce.
«Then, if the flash rate suddenly jumps to at least twice the standard deviation of that running
average, there is a high probability the updraft
in that cell has strengthened, a supercell is forming and severe
weather is more likely with that storm.»
But the questionnaire, which asks for
averages based on
weather conditions over the past 10 years, does not require cities to anticipate how climate may change
in the seven to eight years between bidding and hosting the games.
Climate, however, is the bigger picture of a region's
weather: the
average, over 30 years (according to the World Meteorological Association's definition), of the
weather pattern
in a region.
Similarly, while we can not predict the
weather in a particular place and on a particular day
in 100 years time, we can be sure that on
average it will be far warmer if greenhouse gases continue to rise.
But the U.K. Met Office (national
weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that
in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global
average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme
weather could be attributed to human influence.
Ruiz, who contributed to the report, noted that an analysis of
weather records at one páramo research station showed increases
in minimum temperatures were almost twice that of lower elevations, while increases
in maximum temperatures jumped to nearly three times the
average at lower elevations.
Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme
weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming
in global
average temperatures.
In summer, however, the analysis of observational data coming from weather stations and satellites reveals a clear decrease in the average storm activit
In summer, however, the analysis of observational data coming from
weather stations and satellites reveals a clear decrease
in the average storm activit
in the
average storm activity.
«Drought years» happen on
average every five years
in the Amazon and are typically a result of changes to wind and
weather patterns brought about by warming
in the Atlantic Ocean during events of the climate phenomenon El Niño.
Because climate systems are complex, increases
in global
average temperatures do not mean increased temperatures everywhere on Earth, nor that temperatures
in a given year will be warmer than the year before (which represents
weather, not climate).
Rainfall
in August was just 4 percent of the
average, according to the local
weather forecasters.
El Niño is a recurring climate pattern defined by above -
average ocean temperatures
in the equatorial Pacific that affect
weather patterns around the world, leading to a slight uptick
in global temperatures.
The combination provides for a dramatic increase
in record hot
weather.27 Here «variance» is a measure of the spread of temperatures around the «mean» or
average temperature.
But some ocean patterns
in the climate system can persist much longer, and understanding them can help make useful predictions for regional and global
averages that don't depend so much on specific
weather patterns.
While
weather patterns played a clear role
in boosting temperatures
in many parts of the country, the overall rise
in average temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions has made record heat more and more likely and record cold increasingly rare.
The
weather map was painted
in red from border to border
in the eastern two - thirds of the country for nearly all of February (and winter for that matter) with only the Pacific Northwest cooler than
average.
Imagine sea levels rising by feet instead of inches, global
average temperatures increasing by many degrees instead of just fractions and an increase
in other cataclysmic, costly and fatal
weather events.
The same storm pattern that's behind the extreme
weather conditions
in the U.S. hit the North Pole this week and caused temperatures 50 degrees warmer than
average.
Not to brag, but recently we've had mostly sunny skies and above
average temperature
weather here
in southern Califonia and it's forecasted to stick around for a while.
October is normally a pretty brilliant month for
weather in the PNW,
averaging only about 3 ″ of rain.
Though
weather is constantly changing, the
average weather is a good indicator as to which coat you should invest the most money
in.