Sentences with phrase «changing average weather»

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The Agency reminds us that small changes in the average temperature of the planet can translate to large and potentially dangerous shifts in climate and weather.

Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results of thousands of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting weather in every part of the United States, causing average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

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.

If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on — weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds of thousands of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become average by 2050.

But the questionnaire, which asks for averages based on weather conditions over the past 10 years, does not require cities to anticipate how climate may change in the seven to eight years between bidding and hosting the games.

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

Threats — ranging from the destruction of coral reefs to more extreme weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) of warming in global average temperatures.

Data from its first national climate change adaptation strategy issued last year show that extreme weather events have killed more than 2,000 people each year on average since the 1990s.

«Drought years» happen on average every five years in the Amazon and are typically a result of changes to wind and weather patterns brought about by warming in the Atlantic Ocean during events of the climate phenomenon El Niño.

Though weather is constantly changing, the average weather is a good indicator as to which coat you should invest the most money in.

Better still, get rid of the (weather and El Nino influenced) short - term five year averaging and show long term climate changes by putting ten and twenty year moving averages on the data.

Therefore the issue is not that on average it is hotter in the middle of the city or the suburb or the airport, but rather whether the environment of the weather station has changed significantly in such a way as to effect the anomoly.

The most severe impacts of climate change — damaging and often deadly drought, sea - level rise, and extreme weather — can only be avoided by keeping average global temperatures within 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) of pre-industrial levels.

At this point, does it really matter what we call the dramatic changes in the Earth's average temperatures that are driving the extreme weather events we now live through on a regular basis?

Could they produce sets of weather - maps that if somehow integrated over 30 years could produce a «supermap» showing actual climate change in terms of e.g average windspeeds, rainfall, cloud - cover, pressure and so on?

Put simply, a «climate variation» is a change in the average weather for a particular time of year; for example, winters becoming warmer.

There are three large average surface wind patterns few know about: the tropical easterlies (tradewinds), the midlatitude westerlies and the polar easterlies, but variability results in significant weather changes.

Andrew, are you claiming that average weather does not change over time?

You are correct that regional and average weather changes over various time scales of interest, and that extreme events continue to occur.

The climate change lobby desperately needs 2009 to break records for high average temperatures and extreme weather.

Future crop yields will be more strongly influenced by anomalous weather events than by changes in average temperature or annual precipitation (Ch.

People are affected far more by local weather extremes than by any change in global average temperature.

Study shows China's severe weather patterns changing drastically since 1960 In one of the most comprehensive studies on trends in local severe weather patterns to date, an international team of researchers found that the frequency of hail storms, thunderstorms and high wind events has decreased by nearly 50 percent on average throughout China since 1960.

In reconstructing the changes in global mean temperature since 1850, Berkeley Earth has examined 16 million monthly average temperature observations from 43,000 weather stations.

«The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the «little ice age»... In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns.

The sudden change in minimum temperature differences between Perth Metro and Perth Airport from 1997 can be seen in average annual minima recorded at both weather stations.

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

«It seems clear that climate change is happening, we continually have record temperatures for the time of year, there is no return of temperatures to «below average» which we would expect if this was just statistical variation, there is increasing turmoil in the weather, the barrier reef is bleaching to an extent not seen before and so on.»

But the current rise in Arctic temperature is due not to changes in global average temperature but to changes in regional weather patterns.

Climate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1 degree F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening every year.

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

Climate computer models falsely assume that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide drives climate change... and predict average global temperatures a full 1º F higher than have actually been observed by satellites and weather balloons, a gap that is widening every year.

Climate change is a long - term change in Earth's weather patterns or average climate, including temperature and precipitation.

Climate models are what happens when you calculate changes over a long enough period of time for the fluctuations in weather to average out so that you can see the underlying trend.

Simplest is to point to the ratio of rates, for an approximation of the scale of the changes between the 1910 - 1940 gross weather station global interpolated average under lower (but rising) CO2E conditions, and the later average under higher rising CO2E conditions at higher net energy levels.

From this post I get the impression the climate scientists measuring the average conditions of weather at discreet time intervals and following the change in the average over time is a very limited approach seeking to identify causes and effects, when we have known for a long time the major inputs in the climate such as insolation, orbital characteristics, evaporation, condensation and etc..

At last, a responsible government has recognised that global average sea - level change is no more relevant to coastal management than average global temperatures are to the design of residential heating and cooling systems — local weather and local sea - level change is what matters.

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).

Climate change is the long - term average of a region's weather events lumped together.There are some effects of greenhouse gases and global warming: melting of ice caps, rising sea levels, change in climatic patterns, spread diseases, economic consequences, increased droughts and heat waves.

While the weather is always changing, especially over the short term, climate is the average of weather patterns over a longer period of time (usually 30 or more years).

Because weather patterns vary, causing temperatures to be higher or lower than average from time to time due to factors like ocean processes, cloud variability, volcanic activity, and other natural cycles, scientists take a longer - term view in order to consider all of the year - to - year changes.

Climate is the average of many individual weather components over a period of time, and it is their change (if any) over that time that causes «climate change.»

Climate change (as the term implies) is a change to the climate, which is really a change to the average of the weather.

While climate change won't stop cold weather from happening, it will steadily change the behavior of the atmosphere to be warmer, on average, across the entire globe.

When this happens the Arctic and North Atlantic Oscillations tend to become more negative and this pressure changes alter the average winter weather in the northern hemisphere.

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).

How will that increase in Earth's temperature change the weather (average temperatures, and ranges?

This is predicted to produce changes such as the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, more extreme temperature ranges, significant changes in weather conditions and a global rise in average sea levels.

While the average earthly temperature does climb in correlation to the amount of atmospheric carbon, people tend to rely on their observations of the weather to validate or repudiate the science behind climate change.