Lucky you for getting
early warm temperatures... won't be warm till August in the UK probably!
An entire lettuce crop can be lost if the plants respond to
early warm temperatures and «bolt,» producing flowers and seeds before marketable heads of lettuce have formed.
Not exact matches
Sea surface
temperature anomalies (SSTAs) will continue to be on the
warm side into
early May.
While they
warm to room
temperature, heat your oven to 450 °F; frozen crusts should be taken out of the freezer and thawed
earlier in the day; leave them in the bag, but leave the bag open as they thaw.
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Unlike this time last year, when there was still two feet of snow on the ground, sunshine and
warm temperatures are ringing in the new year at Orchard View, bringing excitement and the anticipation of an
early spring.
Tennessee finally made the move to cut ties after settling into the SEC East basement at 4 — 6 overall and 0 — 6 in - conference, but as far back as
early October there seemed to be no way back for Jones, who entered the season with one of the conference's
warmest seats and saw its
temperature rise with each uniquely painful loss to a conference foe.
It's
early January in Orlando, and while the
temperatures may be
warmer than if your frozen ass lives in the Midwest or Northeast, there isn't exactly a ton of daylight right now.
Put your cheesy summer squash tart together
earlier in the day and serve it
warm, cold or room
temperature.
Unseasonably
warm temperatures hit the Big Apple today after an
early - morning downpour — and could break a record last set when Ulysses S. Grant was in the White House.
With documented
warmer air
temperatures in eastern Canada since the 1970s, there has been a trend of
earlier ice melting and less ice in general, explained Lavery.
Derham could not have known, but his hobby would one day mark the beginning of something monumental: the Central England
temperature record, the
earliest thermometer readings now included in the massive datasets that track global
warming.
The
temperature records showed a
warming spike after the 1970s, and the ice records documented that river ice is breaking up about nine days
earlier now than last century.
But those
early temperatures are now a tool unto themselves, helping scientists tease out when humans might have started to
warm Earth's climate — and suggesting that the
warming may be greater than first thought.
At low altitudes, females born
early under
warm conditions have more time to grow large and produce offspring, so it is advantageous for these skinks» gender to be
temperature - sensitive.
The Ecological Applications study's findings are also consistent with an
earlier study from Frank's lab that found another scale insect species is more abundant at
warmer temperatures due to increased survival rates.
Despite natural swings up and down, a persistent, long - term
warming trend emerged: eight of the 10
earliest melt dates have occurred since 1990, pointing to the influence of
warming Arctic
temperatures.
The exceptional strengthening of a high - pressure area in Siberia, which brought freezing
temperatures to Finland in late February and
early March, may be partly the result of atmospheric
warming over the Arctic Ocean.
«Our current observations show that plants in Concord today are leafing out
earlier than in Thoreau's time in response to
warm temperatures,» she said.
Since leafing - out requirements are thought to be species - specific, the group designed a lab experiment to test the responsiveness of 50 tree and shrub species in Concord to
warming temperatures in the late winter and
early spring.
Overall, aquatic ecosystems in western North America are predicted to experience increasingly
earlier snowmelt in the spring, reduced late spring and summer flows,
warmer and drier summers, and increased water
temperatures — all of which spell increased hybridization between these species.
The researchers found that due to
warm spring
temperatures on Kodiak, the berries were developing fruit weeks
earlier, at the same time as the peak of the salmon migration; 2014 was one of the
warmest years on the island since record - keeping began 60 years ago.
The
earlier study — which used pre-industrial
temperature proxies to analyze historical climate patterns — ruled out, with more than 99 % certainty, the possibility that global
warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's climate.
Warmer local
temperatures make the snow melt
earlier in the spring, shifting flood season up, too.
When they lived, in the
early Miocene,
temperatures in New Zealand were
warmer than today and semitropical to
warm temperate forests and ferns edged the vast palaeolake.
NOAA routinely monitors ocean
temperatures, and our colleagues there noticed unusually large and sustained
warming early in the season around Bermuda.
Increasing wildfire area and
earlier and lower streamflows have generally been attributed to
warming temperatures.
If a flowering plant germinates too
early, the seedling might appear before
temperatures are
warm enough for the plant to survive.
But the CMB was hotter
earlier on in the universe — Avi Loeb of Harvard University has previously pointed out the universe's background
temperature would be 300 kelvin (27 ˚C) around 15 million years after the big bang, making it
warm enough to host liquid water.
With
warmer temperatures, the melting snows will fill the rivers
earlier in the spring and will be unavailable for the long, dry summers.
As
temperatures are
warming, that snowmelt is happening
earlier and
earlier.
Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that
temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius
warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years
earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.
Warmer temperatures leads to
earlier melting of the snow, he said, and that is a well - documented phenomenon throughout the western United States.
According to David Mortensen, professor of weed and applied plant ecology, Penn State, synthetic - auxin herbicides are usually used
early in the growing season, but with the new transgenic crop varieties coming on the market, these herbicides will be used later when
temperatures are
warmer and more plant species are leafed out.
Decreased precipitation also exacerbates
early snowmelt tied to
warming temperatures.
The lower 48 states are projected to cross the 2 - degree C
warming threshold about 10 to 20 years
earlier than the global mean annual
temperature, they note.
Wet Earth Erin Wayman's article «Faint young sun» (SN: 5/4/13, p. 30), about how the
early Earth stayed
warm enough for liquid water, made me wonder about the effect of the
temperature of the planet itself.
The penguins once numbered around 2,000 individuals, but in the
early 1980s a strong El Niño — a time when sea surface
temperatures in the tropical Pacific are unusually
warm — brought their numbers down to less than 500 birds.
Late - summer water
temperatures near the Florida Keys were
warmer by nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last several decades compared to a century
earlier, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey.
It also follows on the heels of
earlier studies this year indicating that parts of Greenland and Antarctica may be far more vulnerable to
warming ocean
temperatures than previously believed.
«Using observations and model simulations, we've demonstrated that rising Pacific - Atlantic
temperatures were the major driver of rapid Arctic
warming in the
early 20th century.»
In late 2010 and
early 2011, the continent Down Under received about twice its normal complement of rain, thanks in large part to unusually
warm sea - surface
temperatures just north of Australia and a particularly strong La Niña — in essence, combining a source of
warm humid air with the weather patterns that steered the moisture over the continent where it condensed and fell as precipitation.
The new results, published in Nature Geoscience, contradict those previous studies and indicate that tropical sea surface
temperatures were
warmer during the
early - to - mid Pliocene, an interval spanning about 5 to 3 million years ago.
Thanks to
warming temperatures in Colorado, the marmots have been getting up
earlier from hibernation each year, giving them more time to feed.
The 2012 U.S.
temperature is 0.01 °F higher than reported in
early January, but still remains approximately 1.0 °F
warmer than the next
warmest year, and approximately 3.25 °F
warmer than the 20th century average.
Warmer water and air
temperatures, drier summers, an
early spring and a late autumn.
(page 4): «The solar forced run exhibits a larger precipitation response per degree of
warming than the CO2 forced run, as expected from the theory outlined
earlier in this section, even though the precipitation response [note: this must be the
temperature response] per unit forcing is smaller than for CO2.»
That study, based on
temperature records extending back to 1880, found that while such an extreme winter would have been a once - a-decade event for that region back in the late 19th century, it «has become extraordinarily unlikely in the
early 21st century» due to long - term
warming, the authors wrote.
But, according to a new analysis in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Ben Henley and Andrew King of the University of Melbourne, the 1.5 °C target may be reached or exceeded as
early as 2026 if the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) shifts sea surface
temperatures in the Pacific from a cool to a
warm phase.
Van Oldenborgh used both modern and
early temperature records, as well as sources like tree rings, which can act as a proxy for very old
temperatures, to observe Europe's
temperature records back to 1500 and determined that 2014 will almost certainly be the
warmest year Europe has experienced during the past 500 years.