Sentences with phrase «heat records»

But overall, the background warming of the globe from the heat trapped by greenhouse gases has tipped the odds in favor of heat records over cold ones.

All this is to the background of expected new heat records for the autumn and winter of 2015 - 2016.

With seas rising, global heat records falling, and storms becoming more and more devastating, the reality of climate change has never been clearer.

This implies that on average there is an 80 % chance that a new monthly heat record is due to climatic change.

We have been breaking heat records lately and it's been so hot and humid.

Warming fueled by greenhouse gas emissions continues to rewrite the record books: Over the past several weeks, heat records continued to fall at global, national, and local scales.

A climate expert was saying that one indication is the number of extreme heat records being broken is double the number of extreme cold records being broken.

In fact, the frequency of daily heat records has declined in most places during the past decades.

It also means heat records are more likely to be set than cold records.

This means there is an 80 % chance that current heat records are caused by humans.

These results demonstrate again that climate change is having a major influence in setting new heat records.

Approximately 6 % of the 300 largest U.S. cities set their all - time heat records in 2012.

All - Time Heat Records Broken in... Alaska?!

The continual monthly heat records set in 2016 were fueled partly by a strong El Niño event, which tends to warm global temperatures, though the bulk of the excess heat is due to the human - caused warming of the planet.

On Thursday, Maastricht, in the far southeast of The Netherlands, rose to 38.2 degrees Celsius (100.8 F), a new national July heat record, topping Westdorpe's 37.1 C reading in 2006.

During the 20th century, we had the dust bowl years of the 1930s when many all time heat records occurred (and many of them remain records today).

«It's particularly timely now because we're seeing so many weather phenomena, from heat records to wildfires and severe droughts,» said Cynthia Burbank, vice president of the global infrastructure consulting firm Parsons Brinckerhoff and an author of the document.

Any layperson will understand that a 1000 - year heat record is more exceptional and less likely to happen just by chance — and thus more likely due to climate change — than a 100 - year record or a 10 - year record.

If you subtract the calculated expected physical warming based on the current attribution analysis would the climate system be expected to produce the same number of heat records as are now occurring on trend?

It's to be feared if we don't,» Kerry said, citing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data showing more than 3,500 U.S. communities shattered heat records last year and noting the billions spent mopping up disasters from wildfires in the West to Superstorm Sandy in the East.

That has changed with the surpassing heat records of 2014, 2015 and 2016 — clearly indicating there is no such thing as a «temperature plateau» as long as the concentration of greenhouse gases keeps rising as it does.

5 Apr: SMH: «Summer - like» heat to nudge late - season heat records across south - east by Peter Hannam A burst of heat from inland Australia is set to sweep across the country's south - east in coming days, challenging records for this late in the year, meteorologists said.

Admittedly, the warm weather around the globe is a little scary: a city in northern India shattered the national heat record last week, registering a searing -LSB-...]

The year 2016 continues to set historic heat records with July officially becoming the hottest month ever recorded on Earth.

5 Apr: SMH: Melbourne's summer - like temperatures nudge late season heat records By Peter Hannam & Amber Schultz A burst of heat from inland Australia is set to sweep across the country's south - east in coming days, challenging records for this late in the year, meteorologists said.

Death Valley also holds the world heat record, hitting 134 F (57 C) on July 10, 1913.

The summer of 2011 set multiple U.S. heat records and thousands of monthly temperature, rainfall, drought, flooding and wildfire records were set in 2011.

Heat records tumbled across the country this spring and summer as heat waves and warmer - than - normal temperatures blistered much of the United States.

Incredible heat records, Biblical downpours not reported.

Weather Underground (2016, March 13) February Smashes Earth's All - Time Global Heat Record by a Jaw - Dropping Margin.

Please also remember that Australia is breaking heat records at the moment, for example.

A bonanza of heat records fell throughout February in almost all quarters of the U.S. and research released on Wednesday shows that this pervasive spring - like warmth was made possible by climate change.

Heat records also fell in a few western cities, as well as the fearsomely hot Death Valley, where July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

Bailey's time set a new Olympic heat record for the U.S., breaking Gatlin's mark in the process, which had been established just eight minutes earlier.

For instance, a thorough statistical analysis of the Russian heat wave suggests that there was an approximate 80 % probability that the 2010 July Russian heat record would not have occurred without climate warming, or alternatively the probability increased by a factor of five.10 11

And as in India, new absolute heat records for different areas continue to be set.

Bill Deger, a meteorologist for AccuWeather in State College, Pa., posted a comprehensive rundown of some of the more noteworthy heat records in the West and the High Plains.

12:07 p.m. Updated This Twitter note on the recent spate of heat records links to another highly relevant and enjoyable song by Vince Bell:

In 2011, in the Proceedings of the National Academy we described a statistical method for calculating the expected number of monthly heat records given the observed gradual changes in climate.

What's particularly unnerving about the Southwest passing old heat records is that demographic shifts are adding enormously to the amount of societal exposure to dangerously high temperatures.

Under a medium global warming scenario, by the 2040s we predict the number of monthly heat records globally to be more than 12 times as high as in a climate with no long - term warming.