Sentences with phrase «near record lows during»

Snowpack levels stood at or near record lows during the winters of 2013, 2014 and 2015.

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«Today's near record low homeownership rate, combined with low inventory of rental property, have combined to push rental rates higher during the housing recovery,» he says.

In addition to near - record temperatures, 2017 also saw record - low sea ice during parts of the year, both in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Total sea ice extent for the previous three months was near or below the level of 2007, the year with the lowest minimum summer ice extent during the satellite record.

For instance, during the «snowmageddon» winter of 2009/2010, the NAO was at a near record low value... «Given our modelling result, these cold winters were probably exacerbated by the recent prolonged and anomalously low solar minimum.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

Ice cover has been at or near record lows since 2001, says the report, which predicts the Arctic Ocean will be nearly ice free during the summer within 30 - 40 years.

Others cited the relative affordability of remodels, with builders willing to negotiate on price during slower times and interest rates near record lows.