Sentences with phrase «below average this summer»

The Arctic ice cap melted to hundreds of thousands of square miles below average this summer.

The darkened surface was due to below average summer snow, soot particles from pollution and forest fires, and record melting.

Not exact matches

The average temperature in the Tamar Valley in the northeast of the state is around 17 degrees celsius, peaking at 22 degrees in the summer — well below the Barossa's typical summer spike into the upper 30s.

But Arctic sea ice has been consistently below the long - term average since 2003 and the summer melts of 2007, 2008 and 2009 were the three largest melts recorded.

Water vapor and clouds may play a role The Arctic's summer ice cover hit a record low in 2007, when it dipped about 40 percent below the average ice cover recorded since 1979, when scientists began monitoring the region with satellites.

In a better world, it would be the big news of the year just to report that Arctic sea ice shrank to 4.14 million square kilometers this summer, well below the 1981 — 2010 average of 6.22 million square kilometers (SN Online: 9/19/16).

Still, sea ice is far below the long - term average and stands to rank among the lowest years on record at its end - of - summer nadir.

This area came in just under 2015's maximum of 5.605 million square miles (the NSIDC slightly revised its numbers last summer, so 2015's maximum actually ranks lower than 2016) and 471,000 square miles below the 1981 - 2010 average, an area larger than California and Texas combined.

The Antarctic summer minimum was 813,000 square miles, or 900,000 square miles below the 1981 - 2010 average and 71,000 square miles below the previous record low set in 1997.

The report lists 30 cities that face increased health risks from heat waves worsened by global warming, based on a combination of four factors: average number of summer days with «oppressive» summer heat, the percentage of households without central air conditioning, ground - level ozone levels, and the percentage of households below the poverty line.

ANN ARBOR — A University of Michigan researcher and his colleagues are forecasting a slightly below - average but still significant «dead zone» this summer in the Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary.

The summer CEI was above average in the Southwest, South, and Ohio Valley, but below average in the Upper Midwest and Northeast.

Below - average summer precipitation fell across the Northwest and Southeast.

Much below average snowfall and snowpack was observed across the West, which exacerbated the drought and wildfire season during summer and autumn.

By February, the snow cover extent was below average, which continued into early summer.

We labeled the top 20 % of the summers as much above average and the bottom 20 % of the years as much below average.

Summer minimums have been running well below the 1981 - 2010 average as well.

Hispanic elementary - school students are still reading below par, but they seem to be edging up quickly toward the national average, according to an analysis conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (naep) and released this summer.

This summer's provisional GCSE results show 15 local authorities in the North West, North East and Yorkshire and Humber performing below the national average GCSE benchmark.

Will Self's lament for the death of the novel earlier this summer has been cast into stark relief by «shocking» new statistics which show that the number of authors able to make a living from their writing has plummeted dramatically over the last eight years, and that the average professional author is now making well below the salary required to achieve the minimum acceptable living standard in the UK.

The average water temperature never dips below 22 °C in winter, with an average of a toasty 29 °C during summer.

The weather is divine year round, with average highs of the mid-80s in summer, and rarely dipping below 60 in the winter, with a rainy season occurring in the latter half of the calendar year.

But all of the 15 teams offering projections say ice extent will remain well below the average for the last quarter century and a downward trend in summer ice around the North Pole has not abated.

But, he also says: «teams offering projections say ice extent will remain well below the average for the last quarter century and a downward trend in summer ice around the North Pole has not abated,» and we readers are then linked to his October, 2007 article and an August, 2007 image of a «warmed over» Artic.

Satellite measurements revealed there was a minimum of 4.6 million sq km of Arctic ice last summer, well below the long - term average but above the record low in 2012 of 3.6 million sq km.

Arbetter, 4.7, Statistical A statistical model using regional observations of sea ice area and global NCEP air temperature, sea level pressure, and freezing degree day estimates continues the trend of projecting below - average summer sea ice conditions for the Arctic.

The summer temperatures in 1816 averaged just a few degrees below normal, but as mentioned, it frosted throughout the summer.

Scientists began taking records of albedo on Greenland in 2000, and 2014 saw the record low for August and the second lowest average albedo for the summer, which you can see in the graphs below.

-0,7 ºC open count; NOAA: «A majority of ENSO forecasts indicate slightly below average SSTs in the central equatorial Pacific through Northern Hemisphere Summer 2009.

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?

«Over the last 1010 yr, the LD summer sea salt (LDSSS) record has exhibited two below - average (El Niño — like) epochs, 1000 — 1260 ad and 1920 — 2009 ad, and a longer above - average (La Niña — like) epoch from 1260 to 1860 ad.

While utilization rises in the summer, the average natural gas plant capacity factor remains below 70 percent in the summer months of 2015.

With regard to precipitation anomalies in summer, ERA - Interim shows above average rainfall for Greece and the west of Turkey, whereas E-OBS indicates that these areas are below average.

«Arctic minimum sea ice extent at the end of summer was tied with 2007 for the second - lowest amount during the satellite record starting in 1979, at 33 percent below the long - term average.»

Those dryer summers — particularly at a time of overall warming — could be a major concern, because below - average rainfall naturally increases the probability and duration of forest fires.

23 Polar Climate Average temperature of the warmest month is below 10ºC (50ºF) Little precipitation falls Winters = extremely cold Summer = cool Two Types Tundra Ice Caps

17 Humid Mid-Latitude Climate with Mild Winters Mild winters with an average temperature in the coldest month that is below 18ºC (64.4 ºF) but above -3 ºC (26.6 ºF) Three Types Humid Subtropical Marine West Coast Dry Summer Subtropical

During austral summer (DJF), Australia saw a strong dipole in temperatures, with the west of the continent having temperatures much below average and the east much above average.

This was no problem for the yearly averages, as these are near identical for the overlapping period, but summer temperatures of Egedesminde show a constant bias of 3 C below Illulisat temperatures.

Right now a bunch of the deniers are predicting that Aug 2010 to Aug 2011 will have much below average temperatures; if they are proved right, it will be incorrect to say «That shows AGW is not happening»; and it is not right to say now that this summer is definitive proof of AGW

The average surface air temperature for the year ending September 2017 is the 2nd warmest since 1900; however, cooler spring and summer temperatures contributed to a rebound in snow cover in the Eurasian Arctic, slower summer sea ice loss, and below - average melt extent for the Greenland ice sheet.

Yet by summer's end, the ice extent and area were both far below «normal», if you take «normal» to mean within one or two standard deviations of the 1979 - whenever average (different groups use different end dates for «whenever»).

Summer was characterized by climatologically normal low pressure over the Arctic Ocean (Figure 3a), which limited heat import from the south and resulted in average to below normal temperatures over much of the Ocean (Figure 3b).

During spring and summer the sea ice area was below the 1981 - 2010 average, but not exceptionally so.

Median expected household income growth fell slightly compared to last month (from 2.3 percent to 2.2 percent), remaining well below its 2015 average of 2.7 percent and reaching a value not seen since the summer of 2014.