Sentences with phrase «highest average extent»

Last year also saw a new record for highest average extent from April to September.

Not exact matches

If producers use the recent higher average level of the exchange rate to help restore those margins, then falls in prices at the retail level may not occur to the extent that would usually be expected.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Dr Heblich said: «To the extent that online consumption replaces the consumption of other media (newspapers, radio, or television) with a higher information content, there may be no information gains for the average voter and, in the worst case, even a crowding - out of information.

Using a unique GPS - tracking database of 803 individuals across 57 species, we found that movements of mammals in areas with a comparatively high human footprint were on average one - half to one - third the extent of their movements in areas with a low human footprint.

Record low monthly extents were set in October 2016 through April 2017, except for December 2016, when the monthly average field was slightly higher than 2010.

The team combined field surveys with airborne mapping and high - resolution satellite monitoring to show that the geographic extent of mining has increased 400 % from 1999 to 2012 and that the average annual rate of forest loss has tripled since the Great Recession of 2008.

- Nuts and nut butters — while most almond, cashew, walnut and other nut based trail mixes or nut butters tend to be much healthier than the average peanut butter, they are also very high in heated oils (which produce cell - damaging free radicals) and inflammatory omega - 6 fatty acids — which can tend to dump inflammation on an already stressed athlete's body when overused to the extent most people implement such sources (by the handful and heaping spoonful).

That achievement level is adjusted once based on the extent to which the average achievement in that state, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is higher or lower than the national average.

Adverse Selection: The tendency of persons with poorer - than - average health expectations (higher risk) to apply for or continue insurance coverage to a greater extent than persons with average or better - than - average health expectations (lesser risk).

In fact, the only categories in which price increases trended higher than the average were refrigerated / frozen diets (11 percent) and, to a lesser extent, natural foods (5.6 percent).

High res Arctic sea - ice extent graphic update — plus chart: 2013 (April)- to - date sea - ice extent plotted against the 1981 - 2010 average — at NSIDC Arctic Sea Ice News (and Analysis):

Global average surface temperatures are not expected to change significantly although temperatures at higher latitudes may be expected to decrease to a modest extent because of a reduction in the efficiency of meridional heat transport (offsetting the additional warming anticipated for this environment caused by the build - up of greenhouse gases).

That was due to increased global moisture content, decreased global average cloud cover and decreased sea ice extent at high latitudes.

The graph below (high - resolution copy) shows the range of the forecasts for early September, the point when the sea ice typically reaches its minimum extent, compared to recent years and the average over the period of precise satellite measurement.

Just that if ice extent was low during the NH autumn, then there was a probability that there would be higher then average snowfall in certain NH areas.

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.

Thus, when sea ice is retreating or advancing at a high rate over the course of the month, as was the case for December 2016, the Sea Ice Index monthly average can yield a larger extent than from simply averaging daily extent values.

While daily extents for December 2016 were at record lows, based on the method employed by NSIDC, the monthly average extent for December 2016 was slightly higher than that recorded for December 2010, the record low December in the satellite record.

«This is 1.24 million square kilometers (478,800 square miles) above the 1981 to 2010 average for the month,» the agency reports, and the highest May ice extent in satellite record - keeping.

Quite off the mark, surface temperatures are mostly average because there is still some ice reflecting sunlight, but sunlight is very intense due to low cloud extent and high sun elevations, and does not show immediately above the ice, but further up.

Hi iceman, Sorry for the tardy reply, that pesky real life thing again...:) The reason there is so little excitement about the record high sea ice extent in the antarctic (aside from it having no appealing potential victims, like polar bears) versus the record low arctic sea ice is probably because the southern record is only a matter of 2 % anamoly, whereas in the north we are now looking at levels over 40 % below average.

Adverse Selection: The tendency of persons with poorer - than - average health expectations (higher risk) to apply for or continue insurance coverage to a greater extent than persons with average or better - than - average health expectations (lesser risk).