Sentences with phrase «much less snow»

The world has more diversity to it (and much less snow), but the character and enemy designs are unmistakable — in fact, some of your foes are lifted directly from the last game and merely reskinned.
Spring may actually show its signs here (in the high country of Colorado) earlier than years before as we've had much less snow this winter season than any I've experienced in the past.
Among the findings of the report, released yesterday: Forest fires are becoming more frequent and numerous, streams are warming, and the Mountain West is seeing much less snow.

Not exact matches

So even without much snow on the ground we have more to do, higher costs and less time to work in winter months.
He spends much less time in the lab, though when R&D is too snowed under to explore tantalizing new technologies, he will often investigate on his own.
While the snow amounted to much less than anticipated, the city's public transportation had been shut down at 11 p.m. Monday.
The globe gets more reflective when snow is on the ground, as it is now across much of the East Coast, and less when that snow melts away.
Crouch said that the mild winter and lack of snow in much of the eastern U.S. makes the flood outlook for 2012 far less ominous than last year, when floods caused billions of dollars in damage and accounted for two of 2011's billion - dollar disasters.
Hence, the clouds that form at colder temperatures — if any form at all — contain much less suspended water in the form of ice crystals, the starting sites for snow crystal formation.
Now the ibex eat snow instead of using the water holes, so they're much less likely to walk into our traps.
In Nashville people can't drive in the rain much less when snow is «imminent»... I would love to live somewhere like NYC or Chicago, but just know that the cold winters would KILLLLLL me!
Getting a bead on a heretofore undiscovered solar system, a corporation headed by ancient Peter Weyland (an unrecognizable Guy Pearce, «L.A. Confidential»), finances the journey with Captain Janek (Idris Elba, «Thor «-RRB- in charge and overseen by stoic ice queen Meredith Vickers (Charlize Theron, much less animated than her role in «Snow White and the Huntsman «-RRB-.
From the long - awaited meeting between Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, to the excellent loot train attack in «The Spoils of War,» to the much - criticized (but no less awesome) battle beyond the Wall, Season 7 has no shortage of killer moments.
Understated and subdued, the picture can remind one at times of David Gordon Green's «Snow Angels» but as much as we love Green's film, this simple and sometimes ambiguous film could arguably be seen as the less Hollywood version of a somewhat similar tale.
According to Goodman a «likely explanation is that schools and teachers are well prepared to deal with the coordinated disruptions caused by snow days — much more so than they are to handle the less dramatic but more frequent disruptions caused by poor student attendance.»
Because your dog is less active during the colder months, and because the ground is often much softer due to rain and snow, the nails won't wear down as much on their own.
The fact is that it snows so much less now that people have almost forgotten how to deal with it — how to drive or walk in it.
Keep in mind there's a dearth of insolation at high latitudes so albedo becomes increasingly less important so snow cover over land doesn't mean as much.
«The spring months have sometimes storms of wind and thunder even so early as March within these last years the Climate seems to be greatly changed the summer so backward with very little rain and even snow in winter much less than usual and the ground parched that all summer have entirely dried up...»
And faster - melting ice is causing a decrease in hunting days each year, while igloos, which native hunters prefer to tents when they are on the trail, are much harder to build with less snow and ice.
When oceans get cold, and the surface of polar waters freezes, it snows much less and the sun takes away ice and limites the lower bound of temperature and sea level.
These stem from a diversity of site - specific conditions, including, but not limited to: local vegetation; presence of building structures and contributions made by such structures involving energy use, heating and air conditioning, etc; exposure to winds, the wind velocities determined by climatic factors and also whether certain wind directions are more favored than others by terrain or the presence or absence thereof to bodies of water; proximity to grass, asphalt, concrete or other material surfaces; the physical conditions of the CRS itself which include: the exact location of the temperature sensors within it, the degree of unimpeded flow of external air through the CRS, the character of the paint used; the exact height of the instrument above the external surface (noting that when the ground is covered by 3 feet of snow, the temperature instrument is about 60 % closer to, or less than 2 feet, above an excellent radiating surface, much closer than it would be under snow - free conditions).
Lake effect snow is comparatively much easier to forecast that there is going to be a major storm but much less confidence in timing, amounts and locations because the conditions for lake effect snow are very narrow.
Second, even there the air temperature will affect how much moisture can be brought in from those easterly gales — the colder the air over the ocean, the less moisture will be entrained, and the less snow will result.
AGW causes cool summers, cold winters, hot summers and warm winters, droughts, rain, flood, sun burnt whales, more snow, less snow, more ice, less ice, disruptions in ocean currents, and much much more.
It does snow much less, every time the Polar Oceans are frozen.
Not even 10 % snow cover here for miles around much less 39 % so why does it show up yellow on the Rutgers map?
Somehow in the past year or so, however, the threat posed by snow globes has apparently dropped from Code Red to something much less scary — to the point that the TSA has actually changed its policy and given snow globes the «OK» to be checked in baggage.
Most people have never been to the bottom of the Grand Canyon much less in the winter when it's snowing.
Due to the summer season in Australia, decorations for the nation's Christmas trees tend to have much less of a wintery feel with less of an emphasis on snow and ice.
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