Sentences with phrase «by heat waves»

Researchers are designing equipment that uses lasers to measure the turbulence caused by heat waves above crops.

Results also show that the percentage of global area affected by heat waves has increased in recent decades, and the probability of occurrence of extreme and very extreme heat waves is projected to increase further in the coming years.

We have been hit by a heat wave in the middle of February and it's melting hot outside.

Grant Newsome had this funny tweet of a weather report for Ann Arbor (which is being hit by a heat wave) with the caption: «Don't go to school up north, the weather is always too cold and miserable.»

In Western Australia, emerging evidence suggests that increases in the number of tropical fish are preventing the recovery of kelp forest damaged by a heat wave in 2011.

The striking lag time, which tended to be about two weeks after a temperature drop, although some extended to 28 days, seem to be more pronounced with cold weather heart troubles than in those spurred by heat waves.

Nora López graduates from her Queens, New York, high school in the summer of 1977 — a summer marked by a heat wave, arson, and the Son of Sam murders.

The first thing I remember when getting into Cairo was getting hit in the face by a heat wave, even though it was September and 9 pm.

But they don't bother doing that anymore because with recent changes in the climate, almost every blizzard is followed by a heat wave that melts the snow, so they let mother nature do their work.

Which begs the question, in a country which has been ravaged by heat waves since the dawn of time, why has it taken until now to define what one actually is?

«There is a strong upward trend in 3 - day maximum temperatures over the area affected by this heat wave,» said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, a climate scientist at KNMI.

Grant Newsome had this funny tweet of a weather report for Ann Arbor (which is being hit by a heat wave)...

There, on a single mountain range located 1,100 meters above sea level, scientists have recently found what may be the last few white lemuroid ringtail possums (Hemibelideus lemuroides), a species that was all but wiped out by a heat wave in 2005.

In terms of relative temperature increase, today's eastern and southeastern cities are more severely affected by heat waves than arid and semiarid western cities.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

This gives people and cities more time to prepare: to purchase air conditioners and do things like set up access to cooler environments for the elderly and homebound, people who are disproportionately affected by heat waves.

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

«There is a strong upward trend in 3 - day maximum temperatures over the area affected by this heat wave,» said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, a climate scientist at KNMI.

Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge.

«Given that 50 % of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 % by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

In addition, more than 2,300 reindeer have died in the outbreak, believed to have been caused by a heat wave that melted permafrost, which in turn exposed the carcass of an anthrax - infected reindeer to the 12 - year - old boy.