Sentences with phrase «colder than the north»

I changed it each year, to confuse students who looked at last year's exam; «Why is the South Pole colder than the North Pole?»

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Where I live, we've been trapped in sub-arctic temperatures for a few weeks (it was literally colder in Toronto on Sunday than it was at the north pole).

In my North Kent hinterland I can see this policy going down like a bucketload of cold sick in towns Labour needs to win, towns which are alienated and impoverished (more so than Canterbury which we won) but elected Tories — and voted Leave in droves — such as Gravesend, Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Sheerness.

In early October 2006, the Antarctic stratosphere was the coldest it has been since 1979, and the ozone hole loomed bigger than ever, spanning an area larger than North America.

The researchers found that during glacial periods when the atmosphere was colder and sea ice was far more extensive, deep ocean waters came to the surface much further north of the Antarctic continent than they do today.

Microclimate is the climate near the ground which can be colder or warmer than in the free atmosphere, depending on local topography (e.g. north vs. south side of a hill, higher vs. lower elevation) and vegetation (e.g. young sparse vs. old dense forest).

During the Last Glacial Maximum when the Earth was much colder, closed - basin lakes in currently dry parts of western North America, the Middle East and South America were much larger than they are now, as evidenced by radiocarbon dating and other testing of their ancient shorelines.

They are cold - weather frogs with a range that extends farther north than other amphibians.

Precipitation is rich in oxygen - 18, so generally the ratio of oxygen - 18 to oxygen - 16 should be higher in warmer, wetter climates than in the colder north.

Because the edge of the North American continent is colder than a plate near an active margin, Levin suspects this edge is cooling the mantle — the layer just below the crust that extends toward the earth's core.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francinorth america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San FranciNorth Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

Parts of the northwestern Pacific, the North Atlantic south of Greenland, and regions in the southern oceans near Antarctica were were cooler or much cooler than average, with no areas of the global oceans record cold.

The cold conditions mean at present only 135 of more than 800 known fish species are found in latitudes north of where the UK sits, in either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

Modeling Pluto's temperatures showed that when averaged over Pluto's 248 - year orbit, the latitudes near 30 degrees north and south emerged as the coldest places, far colder than either pole.

Analysing surface temperature data for 1979 - 2015, they link a warm Arctic during March to colder - than - average temperatures over northern regions of North America and dry conditions in central southern areas between March and May.

The extreme weather pattern is causing flooding and colder - than - normal temperatures in the major farming areas of North America: California, Mexico, and Florida.

You'd think I would have been used to cold weather coming from Ireland, but the winds blowing in from the North Sea were biting and so much chillier than I had ever felt.

Even though us in the north east are exoerincing more colder weather than what we've been getting, I still wanted to dress in so bright colors and get into #springfever.

I wore mine when I lived in a colder climate than you are now (think wayyyy up north), and it did me just fine.

Is there nothing better than shipping off on a red - eye flight in the depth of a cold winter night and arrive, half - a-day later far on the other side of the Equator (assuming you're coming from the north) in warm South America?

Awareness goes back to at least WWII, when some Liberty Ships sailing in the cold waters of the North Atlantic broke in half due to temperatures lower than the nil ductility transition temperature (NDTT) of the steel used in the hulls.

This may have deflected the position of the jet stream, bringing colder conditions to North America than the rest of the Northern Hemisphere.

Actually, North America experienced a colder than normal winter, at least compared to 30 - year averages.

For example, the transition to colder regional climates between AD 1200 and 1500 is evident earlier in the Arctic, Europe and Asia than in North America or the Southern Hemisphere.

In making its seasonal prediction, forecasters cautioned that there are large portions of the country for which there are no clear indications whether it will be a warmer, colder, wetter, or drier than average winter, largely due to a fickle El Niño event that may have petered out too early to have much of an impact on North American winter weather.

The same meridional blocking pattern hit North America this March, keeping the East at record high temperatures and the West colder than normal such that it snowed in Northern California and also rained much more than normal.

Sea ice less than one year old was somewhat thicker than has been observed in recent years, with a modal thickness around 1.8 m, after one of the coldest North American winters in recent years.

While temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer than average during the summers, the tropics and areas of the Southern Hemisphere were colder than average which comprised an average global temperature still overall lower than present day temperatures Northwestern North America had peak warmth first, from 11,000 to 9,000 years ago, while the Laurentide ice sheet still chilled the continent.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

I am not big on the science but it seems logical and at face value, expected that cold wet sea in the north rather than frozen dry freezing sea will generate very different weather.

Southern sea ice is increasing «Antarctic sea ice set a new record in October 2007, as photographs distributed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed penguins and other cold - weather creatures able to stand farther north on Southern Hemisphere sea ice than has ever been recorded.

While the tropical Atlantic is currently warmer than average, the far North Atlantic is colder than average, potentially indicative of a negative phase of an Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation, another entirely natural occurrence which affects ocean temperatures over 25 to 40 years.

For Europe to be as agriculturally productive as it is (it supports more than twice the population of the United States and Canada), all those cold, dry winds that blow eastward across the North Atlantic from Canada must somehow be warmed up.

Lake - effect snow happens when moisture from warmer lake waters mixes with cold air coming from the north, causing more than 2 to 3 inches of snow an hour.

The same has been prevalent over North America this week, resulting in a colder than normal winter in some parts while temperatures soar towards the east coast.

Cold - water currents: For example: The California current carries cold water from the North Pacific Ocean toward Mexico along the western coast of the USA therefore, cooler climate year - round than inland staCold - water currents: For example: The California current carries cold water from the North Pacific Ocean toward Mexico along the western coast of the USA therefore, cooler climate year - round than inland stacold water from the North Pacific Ocean toward Mexico along the western coast of the USA therefore, cooler climate year - round than inland states.

For example: The California current carries cold water from the North Pacific Ocean toward Mexico along the western coast of the USA therefore, cooler climate year - round than inland states.

Note the cold anomalies in north European seas and all around the USA in their winter 2010 - 11, some of which are relatively colder than the Perth anomalies are warm.

In other words, it was colder in North Texas last night than it was in Yamal, Siberia near the 70 degree North Latitude line beside the Arctic Ocean.

- Notice, during the current cold phase, there has been permanent ice caps in Antarctica for only 10 million years and at the North Pole for less than 5 million years (demonstrating that ice caps are a rare event in Earth's history, which shows we are in a cold phase)- Notice that the planet has had no ice caps — therefore it has been much warmer than now — for about 80 % of the past 500 million years.

Will the «coldest on record» Superbowl temperatures (conditions created by the climate engineers) help to cover up the record warm temperatures at the North Pole (which are expected to be as much as 40 degrees higher than those at the game)?

The transition to these colder conditions occurred earlier in the Arctic, Europe and Asia than in North America or the Southern Hemisphere regions.

not entirely clear, but since it is the north leg of the NAO (Icelandic pressure) that is determinant, it presumably takes some years for the warm atlantic currents to reach the Arctic and return as cold currents via Denmark Strait (Icelandic pressure) and few more years to loop into the subpolar gyre to initiate AMO oscillation Hence in order of occurrence NAP > NAO > AMO (refer to http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/NAOn.htm one but last illustration) Just as a reminder compare NAP waveform with the CET spectrum components (1660 - 2021) http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CET-NV.htm I hope some of the above helps, but if not than your «how you cook up your «secret recipe» NAP misgiving is by far safer than accepting «blanco» assurance.

Conversely, the month was considerably colder than average over north - western Russia.

It was predominantly warmer than average over the extratropical oceans of the southern hemisphere and over the North Pacific, but colder than average to the south - west of South America.

It was particularly warm over the North Atlantic immediately to the east of North America, but colder than average over a zone further nNorth Atlantic immediately to the east of North America, but colder than average over a zone further nNorth America, but colder than average over a zone further northnorth.

The Arctic, Europe, and Asia transitioned from the MWP to colder temperatures sooner than North America and the Southern Hemisphere.

In retrospect, our overall outlook of setting a new record minimum based on the vast amount of FY ice should have been tempered by the fact that the FY ice over the pole should be thicker since it was the first ice to grow last fall and the north pole is also colder than the Eurasian and Alaskan coasts, and during summer this ice is subject to less incident sunlight.

The new study explores what happened to ocean circulation when the Earth went through a series of abrupt climate changes in the past, during a time when ice covered part of North America and temperatures were colder than today.

A report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation found that of the approximately 19,500 megawatts (MW) of capacity lost due to cold weather conditions, more than 17,700 MW was due to frozen equipment.