Sentences with phrase «national average weather»

For general information on savings, the Solar Rating and Certification Corporation (SRCC), publishes Solar Energy Factors, which can be used to compare different solar systems (with electric backup only) to other water heaters under national average weather conditions.

Not exact matches

Although considered a relatively mild winter, with late January and February temperatures above average, the devastatingly cold weather experienced from late November through to early January saw the number of deaths rise above the national average, peaking during the first week of January 2011 with almost 3500 more deaths than the five - year average for that time of year.

Wondering how that cold spell compares to recent times, atmospheric scientists Susan Solomon of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aeronomy Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, and Chuck Stearns of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, tracked the average monthly temperatures over the last 15 years at a series of four automated weather stations located, by coincidence, along Scott's return route.

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human innational weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human inNational Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

Data from its first national climate change adaptation strategy issued last year show that extreme weather events have killed more than 2,000 people each year on average since the 1990s.

The unemployment rate in Cary is lower than both the state and national averages, and the city did an excellent job of weathering the economic downturn.

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) cites a study that shows the «annual deaths attributed to cold weather» in the USA averaged 27,940 per year since the mid-1980's.

The research, detailed Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, lays bare how even seemingly small increases in average temperatures can make a big difference to the extreme weather that people experience.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that the U.S. average temperature last year was half a degree warmer than normal and weather was less disastrous and drought - struck than previous years.

According to data collected by the National Climate Data Center, there were 134 weather or climate disaster events with losses exceeding $ 1 billion each in the United States between 1980 and 2011, an average of more than four per year (Table 2.1).

''... authors obtained meteorological data from weather stations situated in eight of the provincial capitals that covered the period 1980 - 1998, while they obtained contemporary mortality data from the country's National Institute for Statistics for deaths associated with cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive system diseases... Various analyses of the monthly - averaged data revealed a number of interesting results.

The adjustments are needed partly because most weather stations in the 1800s and early 1900s were established in populated areas but there was a dearth of isolated inland thermometers and temperatures to build a true national average or historic comparison.

On average, more people in the United States die each year from heat - related illness than any other weather disaster, according to the National Climate Assessment.

That said, when you figure in statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that rank Florida second in the nation for traffic fatalities, and take into account Florida's propensity for severe weather and the above average rate of property damage claims that result (flood, wind, and hail damage, for example), it's easy to see why insurance providers in Florida aren't quick to give any handouts.

In addition to weather threats, this city does have a high crime rate when compared with the national average.

The state is prone to some types of severe weather, and that may be why the average yearly Oklahoma homeowners insurance premium is higher than the southern state or national average.

It's the highest load - to - truck national average since March 2014, when demand skyrocketed with polar - vortex - related severe weather and led a big rates rally on the spot market that year.

Of course, there is no such thing as a «national» real estate market and using national price averages to figure out local price trends makes about as much sense as using a national weather forecast to make plans for a picnic in the park.