Sentences with phrase «cold snaps»

Mortality increases 1.59 % in cold snaps versus 5.74 % to heatwaves.

Weather is what happens every day — gentle rain, torrential rain, heat waves, cold snaps, and so on.

Need lubricants that work at -80 C for the windmills so they don't freeze up and destroy themselves in cold snaps.

It would a lot easier to plan vacation time if you know when the cold snaps are coming and you need lots of people on to handle frozen water pipes.

In the long - term, with a good prospect for more extremes, it could be beneficial to think about diversifying crops to reduce dependency on varieties that are susceptible to the pattern of early heat followed by cold snaps.

And despite facing some of the most severe cold snaps in a generation — including the 2014 Polar Vortex — PJM has survived.

In Austria, which was hit hard by the April freeze, fruit trees are blooming 10 to 14 weeks earlier than they did in the 1980s, which makes them more susceptible to subsequent cold snaps.

Instead, the regions with expanding mangroves experienced fewer cold snaps — periods when the temperature dips below 25 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 4 degrees Celsius).

But it could be that melting Arctic ice is making sudden cold snaps more likely — not less»

Hot spells and cold snaps are killing crops; the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais lost one - third of its yield in 2014 due to drought.

They warn not to read too much into current events (particularly hurricanes) unless you're ready to explain the quiet seasons and cold snaps along with the tempests and heat waves.

But he said it was wrong to focus on single events — whether they were cold snaps or heat waves — which were the product of natural variability.

Not only would we have hotter weather in general, but perhaps higher spikes & cold snaps (it only took one cold snap over a two day period last Dec to kill my mango tree).

There is also material on convective storms, hail, lightening, and cold snaps, and the report provides a background on extreme value statistics, risk analysis, impacts, and adaptation.

Harsh weather like heatwaves and cold snaps, which cause your stamina to deplete faster, add another level of strategy to an already wonderfully challenging game, and a level system that includes select - able perks allows you to customize and adapt your character to your play style.

The weather stays fairly consistent at a sunny 75 degrees year round, with the exception of the hot summers, and occasional cold snaps.

The city's position near the coast does spare it from bearing the full brunt of cold snaps.

It may not truly be winter yet, but in some parts of the country, cold snaps have already set in.

We have warm weather for the majority of the year with occasional cold snaps in the winter months.

Cold Weather Precautions Houston occasionally experiences freezes and significant cold snaps.

Frankly, trapped as I have been in the cold snaps gripping Washington, I'm dreaming of them myself.

The IBC says that much of the increase is due to extreme weather such as ice storms, severe cold snaps and heavy rainfall.

Burst pipes can be an equal problem, particularly during cold snaps.

There's no getting around it: the Irish winter can be dire, full of media predictions of intense cold snaps.

Footbed is lined with Thinsulate ™ Insulation olefin / polyester for extra warmth during cold snaps.

Following are ways to layer outfits during the transition to Fall, through to the coldest days of Winter, and on through to the beginning of Spring when there are still cold snaps.

Mangrove forests have more than doubled in expanse on the northern end of Florida's East Coast, likely because climate change has led to fewer cold snaps, a new study finds.

Then they compared them to Arctic weather records and found that when the Arctic was warm, cold snaps happened more often in the East — and the higher that Arctic warming reached into the atmosphere in mid to late winter, the more severe winter storms hit.

The extreme cold snaps are taking place against a backdrop of generally warmer winters, and factors like a warming Atlantic Ocean have helped drive the powerful nor» easters and heavy snowfall seen on the US East Coast this year, Mann told Seeker.

Scorching summertime heat waves in Europe, Asia and North America, as well as extreme cold snaps in central Asia, have become more likely because of changes in the way air is flowing over those regions, a new study detailed in the journal Nature suggests.

Those increases will result from fewer cold snaps, and hence substantially decreased likelihood of seasonal mountain pine beetle die - off.

The jet stream — a powerful river of wind high in the atmosphere — shapes the Northern Hemisphere's weather, including bitter cold snaps.

Maple syrup production is reliant on cold snaps in the winter, so warmer winters could mean less syrup.

There's also evidence that as it wobbles, it can get stuck out of kilter, which can lead to more persistent weather extremes, including heat waves, cold snaps, droughts and flooding.

But that's hard, even though we know that the likelihood of dangerous cold snaps, floods and droughts increases the more greenhouse gases we emit.

Climate - change - denying politicians like to point to the cold snaps as some sort of proof global warming is not happening.

An analysis of more than six decades of daily temperature and snowfall data linked warmer arctic temperatures to cold snaps at lower latitudes.

Scientists have long explained that winter and record cold snaps will not disappear as a result of climate change, and that cold spikes may get worse as a result of shifting weather patterns under global warming.

After three cold snaps the scientists stopped changing the temperature and humidity and watched to see whether the amoebas had learned the pattern.

A new analysis of European tree - ring samples suggests that mild summers may have been the key to the rise of the Roman Empire — and that prolonged droughts, cold snaps, and other climate changes might have played a part in historical upheavals, from the barbarian invasions that brought about Rome's collapse to the Black Death that wiped out much of medieval Europe.

And they note that freezing to death could be a danger if early - spring warming periods, followed by cold snaps, become common — something they observed in the spring of 2012.

«Additional Arctic weather data raises forecast accuracy of cold snaps in Japan.»

As the glacial period drew to a close and temperatures began to rise, there were two final cold snaps.

Rising temperatures are decimating snowpack, but when still frequent cold snaps hit, there's not enough insulation to protect the cedar's shallow roots so they die.

But Olsen says the virus is not moving north now, and is likely to be in the UK already, as birds escaping from cold snaps in eastern Europe, and migrant ducks including pochards from Siberia, head for both the UK and France.

Strawberry growers traditionally use water to protect their crops during cold snaps.

But it's unlikely that cold snaps — even ones as deep as this year's — will get rid of entire populations, said Ryan DeSantis, a natural resource advisor with the University of California's Cooperative Extension.

But while no serious tradeoffs were seen in this study, the Indy flies may turn out to have unforeseen weaknesses, such as unusual sensitivity to cold snaps, cautions biochemist Raj Sohal of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

We may complain about freezing temperatures, but most cold snaps leave us little worse for the wear.

The weather fluctuates from one year to another and individual cold snaps in the Arctic area are not, as such, proof of the progression of climate change.