Sentences with phrase «average weather in an area»

Climate The average weather in an area over a period of time.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

For example, he will know more about the average life expectancy of roofing materials in the local area (given the weather conditions).

Thus, even though the ice extent is about equal to the long term average right now, for summer weather typical of the past few years, the decline in ice area will be more rapid than in other years.

Climate change refers to a change in the «average weather» of an area caused by the unnatural warming of the globe.

The heater tape is thermostatically controlled and runs very little to keep the pipe area around the pipe above freezing — even in this bitter cold weather, it only takes an average power draw of about 5 watts to keep the area above freezing, but I will probably see if I can do a better job on the insulation and eliminate the heater tape.

2014 - 2015... The Ithaca Voice (Author): • This could be warmest day in Ithaca since October 29 • A look ahead at Ithaca weather; temps this month are 7 degrees below average • Sub-freezing temps to bring light snow / sleet to Ithaca • Light snow in Ithaca area expected as temperatures drop to 20s • Cool, wet week ahead for Ithaca • Ithaca can expect mild temperatures well above normal this week • Update: Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Ithaca • Above - average temperatures expected for Ithaca for early October • Why has the weather this summer been so amazing?

Since the millenium, exceptionally strong storms have prevailed globally, oceans are covering once habitable islands, Beijing is suffocating, 100 year and 150 year floods are frequent, major aquifers have been depleted (the Salton Sea is drying up), weather patterns have changed drastically, winters in the S.E.states are definitely experiencing drastically warmer averages (some areas only 10 - 14 nights of freezing temp vs. 1970 28 - 30 nights of freezing temp).

I believe that that is supposedly about the fact that many land based stations were located close to urban areas 100 years ago, and are now in urban areas, that is the world average temperature is supposedly overstated because the weather stations aren't representative.

The Average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time and is determined by two main factors, temperature and precipitation.

The polar coverage of GISTEMP arises mainly from the fact that GISTEMP allows each weather station to contribute to an area of radius 1200 km around the station - this distance was determined by examining how temperature changes with distance in regions with good coverage (see Of Averages and Anomalies - Part 1B).

(For example,» Climate: the average of weather in a certain area over a long period of time.»)

The anomaly calibration procedure was applied to an unpublished but soon to be released BoM dataset of historic daily weather station temperatures in which 7 January at 40.3 C is 5.25 C above the day's average absolute maximum and 0.3 C above the area averaged maximum in the much vaunted ACORN network of stations.

The adjustments are needed partly because most weather stations in the 1800s and early 1900s were established in populated areas but there was a dearth of isolated inland thermometers and temperatures to build a true national average or historic comparison.

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.

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

Because Jackson is prone to experiencing harsher weather than other areas in Mississippi, your home insurance rate will likely be higher than average.