Sentences with phrase «heatwaves over»

A second study of heatwaves over recent decades in India has established a link between extremes of heat, climate change and mass death.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

My plan was to wear this dress with a faux fur coat and give it a little old Hollywood glamour but we got a heatwave over here, so I reserved it for the night when the temperature went down a little.

A severe heatwave over large parts of Europe in 2003 extended from June to mid-August, raising summer temperatures by 3 to 5 °C in most of southern and central Europe (Figure 12.4).

A heatwave over the summer may have led to a spike in deaths in England and Wales, provisional figures suggest.

But when you hear a warning for a heatwave over the weekend, you tend to take it a bit more lightly.»

Not exact matches

Here in Scotland over the last few days there has been a mini heatwave, I say heatwave I mean its been surprisingly sunny and warm and I haven't wanted to put the oven on and these no bake white chocolate cranberry pecan bars were the perfect solution.

If you use a gas - fired cooker such as the Heatwave, set it up for indirect cooking and rotate the slabs closer to the heat halfway through the cooking process when you turn the slabs over.

Racing NSW lost millions of dollars over the weekend and insurers and farmers braced for losses after the most extreme heatwave in NSW's recorded history

The US is also sweltering in a heatwave, with temperatures predicted at over 45 °C in places.

Too hot to handle Summer heatwaves arise when high - pressure systems linger over an area and trap heat near the ground.

It is part of a trend that saw Sydney's temperature climb to over 47 °C earlier this month — the highest recorded in the city for 79 years — and could see both it and Melbourne experiencing mega ‑ heatwaves with highs of 50 °C by 2040.

For example, the 2003 European heatwave caused tens of thousands of deaths33 and was later superseded in intensity by the 2010 European heatwave, events which can be expected to increase in probability over the 2010 — 2050 period34.

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

An example is the deadly Russian heatwave of 2010, which was the result of such a «stuck» high - pressure system that kept a large mass of hot, dry air parked over the region for weeks.

The Extremes Grand Challenge is organised around four over arching themes (Document, Understand, Simulate, Attribute) with a main focus on four core events (Heavy Precipitation, Heatwave, Drought, Storm).

During this winter in the southern hemisphere, centuries - old heatwave records have been shattered all over Australia in the past week as cities from Hobart to Sydney have been hit by prolonged stretches of temperature far above normal.

I can't wait for this SoCal heatwave to be over and I can layer these items for some different and fabulous Fall looks!

A recent report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather - related events.

Instructions for a Heatwave By Maggie O'Farrell A friend and fellow writer mentioned over dinner one night that she had received an early copy of this novel and loved it.

One such is «Heatwave»; another is «Mist» (1961), a frayed white disc within a silvery nimbus that floats over a marbled, steely ground above an explosion of black paint.

We are already seeing more intense storms and more heatwaves and higher extreme rainfall events, all at damaging levels so it can only get worse over the next 30 years imho.

«Media have been falling all over themselves to report the recent heatwave in the East, but have been ignoring the cold spells happening in other parts of the country at virtually the same time.

We had heatwaves that may have killed over 17,000 this summer, as well as devasting floods that killed over 2,000 in Asia.

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Over the last decade, heatwaves are five times more likely than if there had been no global warming.

Over the last 40 years much of eastern, southern and southwestern Australia has become drier, and there has been an increase in both the duration and frequency of heatwaves.

In the course of the last 15 years, governments and authorities the world over have been warned loudly and repeatedly that global warming could be accompanied by a greater risk of severe weather - related events: floods, heatwaves, ice storms, typhoons and droughts.

My own guesstimate starts with events that have either been formally attributed (in a probabilistic way) to climate change — an example is the 2003 European heatwave — or which have a demonstrable link to physical processes consistent with a climate influence — examples include Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, both of which were observed to rapidly intensify over unusually warm waters.

The following chart shows heatwave days per decade from 1950 to 2013, highlighting a trend toward more heatwave days in Australia over time:

We've seen a trend towards more heatwave days over Australia.

Sea levels will rise over the century by around half a metre; snow will disappear from all but the highest mountains; deserts will spread; oceans become acidic, leading to the destruction of coral reefs and atolls; and deadly heatwaves will become more prevalent.

«What it means for the Australian summer is an increased frequency of hot extremes, more hot days, more heatwaves and more extreme bushfire days and that's exactly what we've been seeing typically over the last decade and we will see even more frequently in the future.»

Over the 54 - year period, the annual average of heatwave days was 7.3.

While this doesn't necessarily portend more extreme heatwaves than usual, the multi-model mean also suggest that anomalous warmth will persist over California during the late summer and early autumn — a time when coastal heatwaves are far more likely.

I hope that in 50 years time as Australians swelter in debilitating heatwaves, battle fierce bushfires, fight over dwindling water resources, lament the loss of unique species and tell stories recalling the wonders of the Great Barrier Reef, they will be reminded of the names of those who refused to act in the face of overwhelming evidence of what lay ahead.

We've experienced all manner of climate extremes over the past few years, from heatwaves (both on land and over the Great Barrier Reef), to droughts and flooding rains.

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

Based on temperature records from 1864 to 2002, the odds of such a heatwave occurring are about 1 in 10 million.4 An event like the 2003 heatwave becomes much more likely after factoring in the observed warming of 2 °F over Europe and increased weather variability.5 In addition, comparing computer models of climate with and without human contribution shows that human influence has roughly quadrupled the odds of a European summer as hot as or hotter than the summer of 2003.6

Climate change very likely did contribute to the severity of the heatwave, which exacerbated both the severity of the crop failure and peoples» anxiety over it.

As a consequence, you're seeing governments begin to look at capacity markets or even buying and owning gas turbines so they can turn them on during a Christmas Day heatwave or whatever in order to keep the system running, but not in a fully commercial mode as we might have expected from experience over the last 20 years.

A heatwave by definition is a variation over a longer period, i.e. lack of moving weather systems, and a completely different thing.

Sadly, this logical fallacy pervades the debate over heatwaves, not to mention other extreme events such as droughts, bushfires, floods and storms and even climate change itself.

A landmark new study in Nature Climate Change finds the melting of the sea ice over the last 30 years at a rate of 8 % per decade is directly linked to extreme summer weather in the US and elsewhere in the form of droughts and heatwaves.

There have been so few heatwaves this year that the alarmists are scrambling to find any, and none of them have lasted long enough to really start sounding any alarms over.

Floods, bushfires and this year's scorching summer heatwave have raised awareness of the dangers of climate change, but an «infantile» debate over the validity of the science has cost Australia precious time, according to a key Climate Commission expert.

This extremely hot, near 90 degree water, has formed the central pulse of the current heatwave even as it has pumped extraordinarily humid air for such hot conditions over adjacent land areas.»

Confusion about the BoM's representation of the January 2013 heatwave is also caused by its explanation of what's causing Australia's heatwave in which a map shows over 70 % of the continent recording temperatures in excess of 42C during the first two weeks of January 2013.

There is no doubt the January 2013 heatwave was hot over an extended area of inland Australia.

However, confidence on a global scale is medium owing to lack of studies over Africa and South America but also in part owing to differences in trends depending on how heatwaves are defined (Perkins et al., 2012).