Sentences with phrase «digit temperatures by»

Namibian desert - dwelling elephants have figured out how to prevent overheating in triple - digit temperatures by covering their bodies with sand wetted by their urine or regurgitated water from a specialized pouch beneath their tongue that holds many gallons of water.

Not exact matches

The searing heat persisted throughout July in the Pacific Northwest, and was followed by another wave in October, as high temperatures rippled through the Midwest and reached triple digits around Los Angeles, shattering records.

If greenhouse - gas emissions are not curtailed, heat - related deaths in Chicago alone could rise tenfold by the end of the century, government scientists say, and the Midwest and the South could swelter with triple - digit temperatures for much of the year, leading to more heatstroke and other heat - related illness and death.

One side effect of the recent cold snap, during which morning temperatures hovered somewhere between the freezing point and single digits, was noted by copy editor Rusty Blackwell, who found that «stop / start doesn't activate much, if at all, in the cold December temperatures.»

Northwest: Mexicali reaches infernal temperatures by late May and triple digits are a constant through October.

However it is going too far (at least currently) to expect people to live in houses that are at single digit temperatures for four months of the year, to only travel anywhere their legs are capable of taking them, or to only eat food that they can grow / raise themselves by organic processes.

The two - story office building, designed by ZGF Architects, is superinsulated and relies largely on passive solar strategies for heating in the winter, when outside temperatures can drop into the single digits.

«that no - one has measured a CO2 signal in any modern temperature / time graph, so by standard signal - to - noise ratio physics, there is a strong indication that the climate sensitivity of CO2 is 0.0 C to one place of decimals, or two significant digits.»

We can at best estimate that natural variability is an order of magnitude or two smaller than the GHE for climate timescales, which is good enough, since our precision on temperatures on climate timescales barely has enough significant digits to be affected by a two order of magnitude lower effect.

In the wake of the first great storm, temperatures plunged into the single digits for several nights in a row, ascending (in the bright sun) into the upper teens or low twenties by day.

Now, given that the least significant digit of the input data is integer 1, or for later data integer 5, then how do you calculate a «result» based on this data has a GREATER accuracy than the input data — specifically, the claim that this calculated «global mean temperature» has increased by fractions of a degree celsius, and typically reported to the 0.00 degree accuracy.

Without correction, a single digit over a normal breath temperature of 34 degrees centigrade can inflate the results by six percent — enough to push a person over the limit.

And it's not marked so much by a change in temperature because, although lower, we're still getting 3 - digit numbers.