However, one analysis that has attempted to explain both the very large winter extents of 2012, 2013, and 2014, and the subsequent lower and near -
average winter maximums in 2015 and 2016 has suggested that the El Niño Southern Oscillation and a Pacific trend called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (a residual tendency toward El Niño or La Niña in the Pacific that shifts on multi-decadal timescales) may be linked to the change.
Not exact matches
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).
The NSIDC announced on Monday that Arctic sea ice hit its
maximum extent for the
winter on March 24, when it
averaged 5.607 million square miles.
In
winter the
average maximum temperature is 22 °C and the
average low is 12 °C.
I would really like to see a REAL NUMBER for energy consumption right up front on the box (actually I'd like to see at least THREE numbers;
maximum consumption;
average winter consumption,
average summer consumption) AND a total number for the embedded energy in the appliance.
Note how the ANNUAL AREA under the black line (
average chorophyll therefore
average cyanobacterial productivity) has risen markedly over the 5 - year period 2003 — 2007 while over the same period there has been minimal change in
maximum daytime summer SSTs or minimum daytime
winter SSTs.
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
Average sea ice concentration 1988 — 2007 for March (
winter maximum) and September (summer minimum)(Source: http://nsidc.org/).
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.»
Tropospheric waves (purple line) entering the lower stratosphere throughout
winter 2017/18 compared to the 1980 - 2017
maximum,
average, and minimum (gray lines).
The exception being
winter (which spans December 2015 through February 2016) where all regions experienced
average daily minimum temperatures in the top 10 percent and all but the south - central and east central portions of the province experienced
maximum temperatures in the top 10 percent.
Possibly because when journalists check, it's the
average rate of summer melt as the ice decreases from
winter maximum of 14 million square km2 in April toward a minimum of 4.5 million km2 in September.
First point, a long known fact is that the upper midwest (meaning, the northern tier, west of the 25 inch annual
average rainfall line) has a Summer precipitation
maximum, so dry
winters can indeed be expected.