Early in the melting season, we saw this large negative anomaly of volume, which was caused by
an exceptionally warm winter.
Stroeve says this year's minimum extent was largely due to
the exceptionally warm winter in the Arctic, part of a trend that's resulted in 14 consecutive months of record - setting average high temperatures worldwide.
An exceptionally warm winter for us — but maybe you (and I) could try this with an off white top, and get a similar effect?
El Niño wasn't the only reason Alaska was warm, though, as the Arctic more broadly was
exceptionally warm this winter.
Not exact matches
Years 1900 - 1930 were the coolest long period with average of about 4.5 C, 1931 - 39 were
warmer (about 6.0 C, and 1938
warmest in record in many parts of Finland), but 1940 - 41 were
exceptionally cold helping Finland in defending against Russian invasion in «
Winter War».
The late tenth to early thirteenth centuries (about AD 950-1250) appear to have been
exceptionally warm in western Europe, Iceland and Greenland (Alexandre 1987, Lamb, 1988) This period is known as the Medieval Climatic Optimum China was, however, cold at this time (mainly in
winter) but South Japan was
warm (Yoshino, 1978) This period of widespread warmth is...
Since the millenium,
exceptionally strong storms have prevailed globally, oceans are covering once habitable islands, Beijing is suffocating, 100 year and 150 year floods are frequent, major aquifers have been depleted (the Salton Sea is drying up), weather patterns have changed drastically,
winters in the S.E.states are definitely experiencing drastically
warmer averages (some areas only 10 - 14 nights of freezing temp vs. 1970 28 - 30 nights of freezing temp).
Temperatures over the weekend peaked above even the maximum seen during last
winter, another
exceptionally warm one for the Arctic.
A 2013 study from Duke University said that this specific event — an
exceptionally warm late -
winter and early - spring — had the strongest effect on plants» timing than at any other time of the year.
Craig — Maybe it is the mild climate or maybe they don't stay very
warm in
winter, but that is
exceptionally low.
Maybe it is the mild climate or maybe they don't stay very
warm in
winter, but that is
exceptionally low.