Sentences with phrase «cold spell»

The authors show that a lack of such weather systems can thus favor more persistent heat and drought events in summer, and cold spells in winter.

In cold climates you'd want to charge it a few times every winter to make sure it is fully charged during cold spells.

I can remember those days when we'd have an extra cold spell with the temps staying below zero for a time.

Spring is in the air, but we have had a recent cold spell that has left me still craving warm, hearty winter foods!

What's more, we would also increase the likelihood of extreme cold spells!

The current cold spell affecting most of the northern hemisphere is causing quite a stir with widespread scientific and media attention and confusion.

Climate change has made such cold spells less common and less intense, the group said.

2009 will be among the top five warmest years globally unless there is an exceptionally cold spell before it ends.

As temperatures rise, there will also be fewer cold spells and hence fewer people dying from the cold.

I remember one winter (it must have been between 1967 - 69), we had an extended cold spell with a strong north wind.

I can remember those days when we'd have an extra cold spell with the temps staying below zero for a time.

The impending cold spell will come after a year - to - date of abnormal warmth across the country.

If the trend is warming I'd expect fewer record - setting cold spells, but that would be more than offset by the rising frequency of record heat waves.

Indeed, it has been suggested that global warming results in more extremes of every kind including exceptional cold spells.

But a few simple moves may be all you need to prepare your company bottom line for those financial cold spells.

This ridiculous cold spell we've been in for 2 weeks is finally about to end!

The new indoor - outdoor dog runs will be bigger than the existing runs, and dogs will have heated shelter during cold spells.

It was a particularly cold year in a long cold spell.

The extreme cold spell we're in has been hard.

But winter cold spells are just one part of a possibly larger story.

Perhaps because, in January / February, London had its heavieast and most prolonged cold spell for twenty years and since then we have had several nights of bitter frosts Less than a fortnight ago I had to break the ice which had formed in the birdbath and was still there three hours after sunrise.

Recent events, ranging from weather - related events such as cold spells in southeast Europe or hurricanes in the US, to geopolitical events such as tension between Qatar and its neighbours in the Gulf, are all reminders that the security of natural gas supply remains a lively issue.

Huynen MMTE, Martens P, Schram D, Weijenberg MP, Kunst AE: The impact of heat waves and cold spells on mortality rates in the Dutch population.

A vigorous debate in the climate community is whether and / or how much the Arctic can influence mid-latitude weather9, 17 and, in particular, whether a warmer Arctic increases the likelihood of severe cold spells in the mid-latitude continents18.

We are also in the midst of a natural warming trend that began about 1850, as we emerged from a four - hundred - year cold spell known as the «Little Ice Age.»

Many cats like to sleep through cold spells and an older cat usually snoozes through the colder months.

This is bringing extreme weather to mid-latitudes, including prolonged cold spells in Europe, Russia's 2010 heatwave, and record droughts in the US in 2011 and 2012.

I've noticed that since Artic sea ice plunged in extent in the fall that the last three years have all seen early cold spells caused by fronts pushed down by a series of strong storms centered just south of Hudson Bay (central North America).

Following a very cold spell to open this year that propelled the natural gas futures rally to 52 - week highs, a milder February has helped this market tank to very near its 52 - week lows in less than

The jump in prices prior to the current cold spell came after Chinese government ordered a cut in domestic output to mop up excess capacity and stem air pollution and as investors bet La Nina - related wet weather would cause production glitches in key regional exporters Australia and Indonesia.

Frigid weather like the two - week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real - time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change.

Whenever it has a particularly cold spell in winter, the same papers ask «what happened to global warming?»