Sentences with phrase «including summer heat waves»

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Some of the more severe events that recently captured the U.S. public's attention included the Texas / Oklahoma heat wave and drought of the summer 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.

About half the story is devoted to various explanations, including a recent shift in Pacific Ocean water temperatures and an intense heat wave in May and June that eliminated some of the snow pack that normally moistens forests in the summer.

Even though it's technically fall, the most recent heat wave that swept through L.A. had me returning to all of my summer - appropriate clothes, including this all - white look.

The only real high point in climate journalism in the last year was the coverage of the summer's extreme weather, including heat waves in the U.S., wildfires in Russia, and floods in Pakistan.

«Recent examples of summer temperature anomalies exceeding [3 standard deviations] include the heat wave and drought in Oklahoma, Texas and Mexico in 2011 and a larger region encompassing much of the Middle East, Western Asia and Eastern Europe, including Moscow, in 2010.»

This study seems to conflict with Kunkel et al. (1996), which found that evaporation from corn agriculture significantly increased the «sensible heat» of Midwest summers, including the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave.

The new study supplements earlier research published in Geophysical Research Letters demonstrating a link between Arctic sea ice loss and extreme weather particularly in both the summer and winter, including prolongation of «drought, flooding, cold spells, and heat waves.»

Just last month the western part of the country experienced a Christmas - time heat wave while the eastern coast shivered under a «bitter summer freeze» that included snowfall.