Sentences with phrase «history of heatwaves»

This was reflected in the history of heatwaves in the subcontinent.

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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

As you sit in your heatwave in the Pacific Northwest, I'm sitting in one of the rainest and coolest summers in New York City history.

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.

-- then what explanation (scientific if possible) can be given for the fact that, last year alone, parts of the USA had the highest surface temperatures on record, Australia had to rewrite their own temperature gauge because it was recording temperatures which went, for the first time in recorded history, off the scale they were so high and in the UK and Europe we experienced one of the longest heatwaves in decades?

Masters who calls the heatwave «one of the most extreme heat events in U.S. history,» recently commented, «this is not the atmosphere I grew up with.»

The last week of May 2017 and first week of June brought one the most extraordinary heatwaves in world history to Asia, the Middle East and Europe.