Sentences with phrase «average winter temperatures rising»

Not only are average winter temperatures rising, also the cumulative frost is declining — albeit that here the trend indeed seems a little less steep:

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Since the 1950s, the average winter temperature of Alaska's interior has risen by 7 degrees Fahrenheit.

In a report published last month, Scott found that average February temperatures for the 19 previous Winter Olympic host cities could be expected to rise between 3.4 and 3.8 degrees Fahrenheit by 2050, and up to 8 degrees Fahrenheit by 2090, leaving only six previous host cities cold enough to host the Games 75 years from now.

Rising polar temperatures caused the average thickness of winter Arctic sea ice to decrease from about 12 feet to 6 feet between 1978 and 2008, and thinner ice melts more readily.

The average winter temperature in the U.S. has risen 2.5 °F since 1970.

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.»

Data gleaned from 56 meteorological stations showed heat waves increasing from 1980 to 2009, a period marked by glacier retreats, steadily rising average temperature in the Indus delta and changes in temperature behaviour in summer and winter.

Since 1896, winter (January - February) precipitation has risen more than 11 inches and the average temperature has increased 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit, mostly due to higher winter lows.

in southern ontario to show primarily two things: one is that summer temperatures are not increasing, only winter temperatures are increasing therefore it is not in fact getting warmer it is only getting less cold (there is no argument that the seasonally averaged trend is rising); two is that the slight averaged rise is extremely small compared to the daily and seasonal temperature fluctuations.

Teton County can expect a more moderate increase in temperatures, with annual winter averages rising from a historical 15 oF to 24oF.

The Earth's average temperature is continuing to rise, regardless of the fact that some parts of the United States can still experience atypically cold winters (see this page for more on that).

New research found out that during winter these westerly winds will not change much until the average Earth's surface temperature is risen by approximately 2 °C.

The study predicts average annual temperatures in New York state will rise by 4 to 9 degrees by 2080 and precipitation will rise by 5 to 15 percent, with most of it in the winter....

The data scientists are now studying reveal substantial evidence that on average Arctic temperatures in the winter have risen 11 degrees over the past 30 years, and in the late 20th century were the warmest in four centuries.

say it has been predicted that «the average temperature in the semiarid northwest portion of China in 2050 will be 2.2 °C higher than it was in 2002,» and they report that based on the observed results of their study, this increase in temperature «will lead to a significant change in the growth stages and water use of winter wheat,» such that «crop yields at both high and low altitudes will likely increase,» by 2.6 % at low altitudes and 6.0 % at high altitudes... Even without the benefits of the aerial fertilization effect and the anti-transpiration effect of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content, the increase in temperature that is predicted by climate models for the year 2050, if it ever comes to pass, will likely lead to increases in winter wheat production in the northwestern part of China, not the decreases that climate alarmists routinely predict.»

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.

The thermometers out there (even the ones next to AC exhausts in the summer or heated buildings in the winter) tell us that the «globally and annually averaged land and sea surface temperature» has not risen over more than a decade (in fact it has cooled slightly).

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.

For example, Climate Central recently found that the coldest two weeks of each winter across the northeast U.S. and southeast Canada have been warming even more quickly than the global average temperature rise.

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.

Known mainly for its baroque Mateus palace - immortalised on the label of millions of bottles of Mateus Rose wine - the town in the north of the country is home to 50,000 people, who are used to average temperatures through the winter comfortably into double figures, and barely three inches of rainfall during the summer.