Sentences with phrase «hovered near the freezing»

This year the average temperature hovered near the freezing point — typical for the area — yet ice still disappeared at an accelerated pace.

But most scientists presume that the environment on the sea floor is fairly stable: Temperatures hover near freezing, darkness reigns, and currents are languid and steady.

While the temperatures in New England still hover near freezing (though there was sun yesterday!)

Not exact matches

A lot of reseach energy is being devoted to the study of Methane Clathrates — a huge source of greenhouse gases which could be released from the ocean if the thermocline (the buoyant stable layer of warm water which overlies the near - freezing deep ocean) dropped in depth considerably (due to GHG warming), or especially if the deep ocean waters were warmed by very, very extreme changes from the current climate, such that deep water temperatures no longer hovered within 4C of freezing, but warmed to something like 18C.