Sentences with phrase «lower than average temperature»

«The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the «little ice age»... In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns.
In one study, a lower than average temperature (68 degrees) caused workers to make 44 percent more errors, and their productivity was cut in half.

Not exact matches

In New York and Washington, the average daily temperature was 17 degrees lower than in January 2016.
I think the issue here is you didn't give it enough time, or perhaps your slow cooker's temperature is lower than average.
Mote said snowpack levels in most of the western U.S. for 2017 - 18 thus far are lower than average — a function of continued warming temperatures and the presence of a La Niña event, which typically results in warmer and drier conditions in most southwestern states.
As a result, the climate policy scenario lowered global average temperatures by 0.27 degrees in 2050, which is more than when only short - lived climate forcers were controlled.
It was cold, so cold that the dogs suffered visibly; yet the average temperature was no lower than that in many an inhabited part of Canada.
The Seattle area has suffered its most significant and lingering snowfall — and lower than average winter temperatures — in decades.
A high temperature gas has atoms with a larger average velocity than a low temperature gas of the same composition.
This means convection could easily occur, even at the extremely low temperatures of Pluto, which average more than 300 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.
Considering all these factors, Smith and Mizrahi suggest that targeting methane and soot will cause global average temperatures to be only 0.16 °C lower by 2050 than they would have been otherwise, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
For now, 2016 still stands as the hottest year of all time, a year when no land area on Earth experienced lower - than - average temperatures.
Although the creatures would have experienced periods of winter darkness and possibly snow, temperatures in the region were warmer than they are today, averaging in the low 40s.
The U.S. is still cruising toward its second - hottest year on record going back more than 120 years, with every state in the Lower 48, as well as Alaska, recording well above - average temperatures through October.
According to these data, the AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE for the first 9 months of 2008 is LOWER than the average from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th cAVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE for the first 9 months of 2008 is LOWER than the average from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th caverage from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th century.
The record low temperatures tell an even more compelling story: it was much more likely for the daytime temperature to be colder than average than it was for the nighttime ones.
The floors of some deep craters near the poles are never exposed to direct sunlight, and temperatures there remain far lower than the global average.
The State of the Climate November 2015 report noted that in order for 2015 to not become the warmest year in the 136 - year period of record, the December global temperature would have to be at least 0.81 °C (1.46 °F) below the 20th century average — or 0.24 °C (0.43 °F) colder than the current record low December temperature of 1916.
A «positive temperature anomaly» means temperatures are higher than the long - term average, while a «negative temperature anomaly» means they are lower.
Our effective temperature scale is between 0 - 200 K cooler than that expected from the Infrared Flux Method, depending on the adopted extinction map, which provides evidence for a lower value on average than that inferred for the Kepler Input Catalog (KIC).
[12] Earlier extended minima have been discovered through analysis of tree rings and also appear to have coincided with lower - than - average global temperatures.
Low basal temperature - Another telltale sign of hypothyroidism is a low basal body temperature (BBT), less than 97.6 degrees Fahrenheit averaged over a minimum of three daLow basal temperature - Another telltale sign of hypothyroidism is a low basal body temperature (BBT), less than 97.6 degrees Fahrenheit averaged over a minimum of three dalow basal body temperature (BBT), less than 97.6 degrees Fahrenheit averaged over a minimum of three days.
Vegetable oils do not have the heat tolerance that engine oils do, the smoke point for refined almond oil, which is the highest heat tolerance cooking oil I can think of is 270C, your average vegetable oil is going to be far less than that, closer to 210 - 220C, both are lower than the temperatures they will face in the engine
Riviera Maya, Mexico begins to cool down in October, when the average temperature is slightly lower than the previous months at 28 °C.
The longest cold spell for that year took place between March 17th and April 12th — that's 27 consecutive days when the coldest temperature was lower than the average.
Average daytime temperatures are slowly on the increase and March is 1 °C hotter than last month at 29 °C between average high / lows of 34 °C and 23 °C respecAverage daytime temperatures are slowly on the increase and March is 1 °C hotter than last month at 29 °C between average high / lows of 34 °C and 23 °C respecaverage high / lows of 34 °C and 23 °C respectively.
The Central Plateau location makes average temperatures slightly lower than other North Island destinations.
The average temperature of the upper layer has increased more than three times as much as the lower (because the upper layer is only 700 m thick, and the lower one 1300 m).
[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)
An excerpt: «However, [Thomas] Karl also stated that 2015 was not the hottest year in the lower troposphere, the lowest section of the Earth's atmosphere, despite what could be an historically strong El Nino causing warmer - than - average temperatures.
Tropical corals are particularly at risk from bleaching, due to higher than average sea temperature, and from calcium carbonate skeleton dissolution as a result of lowering sea pH. It is estimated that up to 50 % of coral may be killed by 2030 under present trends.
I will bet Gavin Schmidt or any other author on this website $ 200 on LongBets.org that Michael Crichton's projections for temperature increases are more accurate than the IPCC, assuming that the temperature being projected is average lower tropospheric temperature as measured by satellites.
eg2 Similarly there are seasonal temperature changes such that in winter the average temp is ~ 10 - 20 degrees lower than the mean, and likewise the northern winter CO2 air concentration is 5ppm lower, thus changing the energy flow balance in winter vs summer and day vs night & north vs south.
Richard Lindzen says he's willing to take bets that global average temperatures in 20 years will in fact be lower than they are now.
Global average temperature is lower during glacial periods for two primary reasons: 1) there was only about 190 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, and other major greenhouse gases (CH4 and N2O) were also lower 2) the earth surface was more reflective, due to the presence of lots of ice and snow on land, and lots more sea ice than today (that is, the albedo was higher).
The Beer Lambert law works with light which has a lower energy than the average temperature of the gas it is travelling through.
While temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer than average during the summers, the tropics and areas of the Southern Hemisphere were colder than average which comprised an average global temperature still overall lower than present day temperatures Northwestern North America had peak warmth first, from 11,000 to 9,000 years ago, while the Laurentide ice sheet still chilled the continent.
In 2005, during the hottest average decade on record, 8 low - wind conditions known as «the doldrums» combined with very high ocean temperatures to cause massive coral bleaching in the Virgin Islands.9 This was followed by a particularly severe outbreak of at least five coral diseases in the Virgin Islands, resulting in a decline in coral cover of about 60 percent.9 There is some indication that higher ocean temperatures — between 86 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit (30 to 35 degrees Celsius)-- promote optimal growth of several coral pathogens.9 Other research showed that elkhorn coral post-bleaching had larger disease lesions than unbleached specimens, suggesting that bleaching may increase the corals» susceptibility to disease.9, 10
Since 1896, winter (January - February) precipitation has risen more than 11 inches and the average temperature has increased 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit, mostly due to higher winter lows.
Beck interpretes the latter as the direct influence of seawater temperatures, but the measurements near the floating ice border were just average, not the lowest... Modern measurements give less than 10 ppmv difference over the seas from the coldest oceans to the tropics, including a repeat of the trips that Buch made.
Warming was not global during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly; average global temperatures were lower than today
The scientists, using computer models, compared their results with observations and concluded that global average annual temperatures have been lower than they would otherwise have been because of the oscillation.
Claims made by sceptics that the effects of the current ENO as it enters a negative episode, since last year, yielded temperature anomalies much lower than in recent years (in fact, very much average at near zero), have been waved away by alarmists claiming that they are the result of «natural variability».
According to these data, the AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE for the first 9 months of 2008 is LOWER than the average from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th cAVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE for the first 9 months of 2008 is LOWER than the average from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th caverage from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th century.
[30] The United States could effectively bring all economic activity to a halt and cut carbon emissions to zero in the U.S. and still lower average temperatures by no more than 0.2 degree Celsius by 2100.
On a seasonal basis the ranges between the daily maximum, minimum and average are all listed and the lowest ratio is that the daily minimum temperature range over the year is 77,000 times greater than the temperature difference that would result from the proposed 30 % reduction in emissions.
By assuming that the absolute value of the «average» surface temperature common to both the atmosphere and oceans is 4 - 5 C lower than the actual, there would be considerable error wouldn't there?
Because hurricane caused flooding was more prevalent during the Little Ice Age when Atlantic temperatures averaged 1 to 2 degrees F colder than today researchers concluded, «The frequent occurrence of major hurricanes in the western Long Island record suggests that other climate phenomena, such as atmospheric circulation, may have been favorable for intense hurricane development despite lower sea surface temperatures
«The latest (February 2012) monthly global temperature anomaly for the lower atmosphere was minus 0.12 degrees Celsius, slightly less than the average since the satellite record of temperatures began in 1979.»
The only significant atmospheric warming is where the local average air temperature is LOWER than 280K.
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