Sentences with phrase «experienced extreme heat»

This means areas of increased variability are not necessarily the areas that have experienced extreme heat waves.

The result is that 2.9 % of the Northern Hemisphere land area experienced extreme heat anomalies — about a quarter of the Hansen team's results.

And when one considers the fact that India has experienced extreme heat and drought for at least the past two years running, the present context is notably disturbing.

Equatorial Africa also experienced extreme heat, but precipitation was near normal.

This way, the team could determine how many Americans will experience extreme heat in the future.

The map (top) shows population density along with the location of four major heat wave «clusters» — large geographic areas that tended to experience extreme heat at the same time during the past century.

Those places that already experience those conditions will experience them more frequently, and the areas that experience this extreme heat will expand.

Not exact matches

To date, the metro region has never experienced this extreme combination of heat and humidity.

The Cleveland Police Association asked for donations of healthy protein snacks along with bottled water and Gatorade for our men and women in blue who are working long shifts in this extreme heat we are experiencing.

In 2010, for example, one - fifth of the global land area experienced extreme maximum temperature anomalies that coincided with heat waves and droughts in Canada, the United States, Northern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China and unprecedented droughts in tropical rainforests.

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For the first time, using sophisticated tools to measure skin color, blood flow, and temperature, researchers found that patients on the drug who had a very rapid onset of flushing — redness, pain, swelling, and heat to the face — rated the experience far more harshly than patients whose skin changed gradually, even to the point of extreme redness or change in temperature over time.

As average U.S. temperatures warm between 3 °F and more than 9 °F by the end of the century, depending on how greenhouse gas emissions are curtailed or not in the coming years, the waves of extreme heat the country is likely to experience could bend and buckle rails into what experts call «sun kinks.»

The changing climate will enhance the wide variations in weather that mid-latitude regions already experience from year to year and bring an increased number of extreme events such as heat waves and hailstorms, Busalacchi says.

The nearby rural areas experienced no change over the same period, remaining at five extreme heat event days per year.

Moderate reductions in emissions of heat - trapping gases — sufficient to stop global emissions growth by 2040 and bring emissions down to half their current levels by the 2070s — can avoid those paralyzing extremes and limit the expected late - century experience of the average American to about 18 dangerously humid days a year.

Some regions of the country will be hit far harder by extreme heat than others, and some will experience rising temperatures in terms of warmer winters rather than unbearable summers.

It's the tie that binds and while the global average temperature is the defining metric, the increasing incidence of heat waves and longer lasting extreme heat is how the world will experience it.

They found that by about 2050, extreme heat like the Arctic experienced in 2016 will be «commonplace» if emissions continue unchecked, with around half of Arctic winters as hot or hotter.

But if you're into endurance events, by sweating out sodium and hydrating with water alone, you could experience heat cramps or hyponatremia, a low concentration of sodium in the blood that can be fatal in extreme cases.

Plus, the cotton is really soft and thin, which makes the top wearable despite the extreme heat weʼre experiencing (Yes, even in Milan)!

We had an official heat wave last week in New York City, which means its unseasonably time for those of us who work in offices to experience extreme confusion during the hours of 7 - 9AM.

It's always nice to have these mild temperatures that allow us to play outside with our pets more, and it's a comfort to know that even for a short while those pets forced to live outdoors aren't faced with the two extremes of cold and heat that we experience here in Oklahoma.

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This prevents the cat from experiencing extremes of heat or cold, protects them from excessively strong winds and rain, protects them from wild predation and dangerous encounters with wildlife, protects them from insect bites such as mosquitos, fleas and biting ants, and removes the risk of getting infected with communicable disease or getting hit by a car on the road.

Norway experiences extreme cold in the winter, particularly in subpolar regions, and gentle heat in the summer, with temperatures hitting around 30 °C in the south.

With an average temperature of 10 °C (50 °F) throughout the year and rarely experiencing extremes of heat or cold, Ireland's mild climate is largely dictated by Atlantic Ocean currents but can be unpredictable.

A air conditioner is available for the extreme heat we experience in the summer.

The period of extreme heat is thought to be the warmest for up to 500 years, and many European countries experienced their highest temperatures on record.

In the fall of 2016, the Arctic experienced heat that was so extreme that one expert called it a black swan event.

Since 1980, the planet has experienced a 50-fold increase in the number of places experiencing dangerous or extreme heat; a bigger increase is to come.

The IPCC reports that the risks associated with extreme weather events (heat waves, extreme precipitation, and the like) are moderately increased with the approximately 1 °C warming that we have already experienced (the recent report from the National Academies would support that conclusion) and that further warming will increase those risks.

In 2011 alone, the state broke 34 heat records, 27 rainfall records, and experienced cases of extreme drought in multiple counties.

People are already experiencing the impacts of climate change through slow onset changes, for example sea level rise and greater variability in the seasonality of rainfall, and through extreme weather events, particularly extremes of heat, rainfall and coastal storm surges.

Evidence indicates that the human influence on climate has already roughly doubled the probability of extreme heat events such as the record - breaking summer heat experienced in 2011 in Texas and Oklahoma.

For example, the mid west has become increasingly warmer since the industrial revolution, experiencing more extreme heat and drought.

Due to climate change, hundreds of millions of people in urban areas across the world will experience rising sea levels, inland floods, more frequent and intense storms, and more frequent periods of extreme heat and cold in the coming years.

As global temperatures rise on average in the coming decades — as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase with the continued use of fossil fuels — so regions such as the American southwest will experience greater extremes of heat and longer periods of drought.

These heat waves go back for months, such that many places in the extreme north basically didn't have a winter compared with what they normally experience.

But, even so, by 2075, an estimated 18 % of the Earth's surface could still experience those once - rare extreme heat events every year.

«[C] ommunities across the Nation are already experiencing a range of climatic changes, including more frequent and extreme precipitation events, longer wildfire seasons, reduced snowpack, extreme heat events, increasing ocean temperatures, and rising sea levels,» the report says.

Researchers looked at what would happen if a comparable extreme - heat event settled on five major U.S. cities, learning that not only would the country experience massive blackouts, but thousands of people could die.

By 2100, tropical regions would also experience warm spells lasting up to 50 percent longer in a 2 C world than at 1.5 C. «For heat - related extremes, the additional 0.5 C increase marks the difference between events at the upper limit of present - day natural variability and a new climate regime, particularly in tropical regions,» Schleussner said.

So with climate change / global warming, we will still experience more warming overall, leading to an increase in heat extremes.

Impacts harmful to society, including increased extremes of heat, precipitation, and coastal high water are currently being experienced, and are projected to increase.

While North America freezes under record polar temperatures, the southern hemisphere is experiencing the opposite extreme as heat records are being set in Australia after the hottest year ever.

If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail - spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.»

While Australia has always experienced heat waves, this particular event was very unusual as the extreme temperatures were widespread and persisted for a long time.

Climate models have also successfully predicted many climatic events we are already experiencing — extreme events, like 100 - year floods occurring twice within 15 years, or the extended heat waves that have killed hundreds of thousands of people and uncountable wild animals and plants.

We apologize for the problem with the A / C, but, as you mentioned, in the extreme heat we are experiencing, these things do happen from time to time.