Sentences with phrase «mountainous areas like»

The name «Nevada» is Spanish for «snow - capped,» but winter temperatures in the county are projected to average just shy of 50oF by late century under a high emissions scenario, which could leave mountainous areas like Donner Summit covered in brown, not white.

Most of the roads have a bit of a skin tingling feel to them, especially if you are in a mountainous area like Durango or Morelia, but nothing sends the goose bumps running like the State of Oaxaca.

Not exact matches

The windpower companies (which are owned by people like Shell Oil rather and not a bunch of earthtones) tried to stick windmills in the Schoharie Valley's mountainous areas.

Attractions abound in this area including sites like the awe - inspiring Twelve Apostles, Otways Rainforest and bushwalking tracks in the mountainous Otway Ranges of the Great Otway National Park which forms an attractive backdrop to Lorne, and the world - renowned surf strip of Bells Beach.

A stay on Cebu Island is the promise of a total change of scene: from its capital — Cebu City — hosting a great historical heritage to its lush mountainous areas to its shores offering stunning postcard - like vistas, Cebu is really a great place to stay.

To reach areas that are 1.8 °F cooler, species in mountainous terrains need to shift 550 feet higher in altitude (which can be achieved in only a few miles), whereas species in flat terrain like the Midwest must move as much as 90 miles north to reach a similarly cooler habitat.45

«Glaciers in higher colder mountainous regions will be slower to melt even as temps rise, the lower tundra areas will respond more quickly to such changes and this is shown by the quicker responses in tree line to the lesser warming periods like the MWP at ground level further north from him, and not just fossil remains but old farming settlements uncovered, and so on.»

But even in those rural or mountainous areas of the country, like Bavaria and the Rhineland, where temperatures are rising more slowly, the consequences of even a fairly minor increase may ultimately be disastrous.