Sentences with phrase «kind of heatwave»

This kind of heatwave isn't a blip.

For example, the kind of heatwaves we've seen in Europe — we had one in 2003 and 2006 — just how severe will they become and how frequent might they become?

Not exact matches

Even without heatwave temperatures Sydney is hot, sticky and humid, the kind of weather when a basic ingredient like labneh comes into its own.

A couple of weeks ago NYC was embroiled in an epic heatwave, the kind where you instantly melt as soon as you step out of the air conditioning.

They take a lot longer to respond to bursts of hot air, sometimes missing short heatwaves completely (the kind that last less than a minute).

With either 1.5 ℃ or 2 ℃ global warming, we will see more extremely hot summers across Australia, more frequent marine heatwaves of the kind that can cause bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, and probably more frequent drought conditions too.

According to research published last week by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 39, L06801), the rapid warming in the Arctic is affecting atmospheric circulation further south, making weather patterns more persistent — more blocking, in other words — which makes some kinds of extreme weather, such as heatwaves, more likely.

The kind of things I'm referring to are more frequent and intense heatwaves, flooding and droughts, sea level rise and its associated impacts, glacier melt, damage to sensitive ecosystems, increased tropical cyclone activity, increased hurricane strength, ocean acidification.