Sentences with phrase «night temperatures»

Changes in our climate may be as subtle as incremental increases in night temperatures in the summer, or as dramatic as crop failure due to flood or drought.

The thick cardigan was more than necessary as at night the temperatures fall around 15 degrees, and it proved to be a wise choice.

I made this as written, with green tomatoes that were just barely starting to turn red but were stopped by the cool night temperatures.

But it seems rather unlikely the earth's day / night temperature variations would be as large as we see on the moon!

The balanced warm afternoon and cold night temperatures provided perfect hang time for fruit to maintain optimal acidity and develop a fruit flavor complexity.

Then, at night the temperature drops and that spot re-freezes.

He's not sure there's enough of a day - night temperature swing for the grapes to retain the acidity required to make world - class wines, but Horvath remains hopeful.

Shaobing Peng et al., «Rice Yields Decline with Higher Night Temperature from Global Warming,» Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 6 July 2004, pp. 9971 — 75; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, «Warmer Evening Temperatures Lower Rice Yields,» press release (Washington, DC: 29 June 2004).

Its equatorial temperature, for instance, can get up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, while night temperatures can plunge to a deadly 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

On the young Earth, pockets of liquid could have expanded into a network of channels that mixed their contents during freeze - thaw cycles, like day - night temperature changes in summer.

Higher night temperatures during the ripening stage also decrease rice yield and grain quality.

Minimum Night Temperature.

Our mushroom farms were in fact established on land reclaimed from a scrub forest zone never before subjected to cultivation with the major difference between day and night temperature necessary for the strongest, healthiest, tastiest fungus.

Pepper growers in colder climates in the United States and Canada, and in higher altitudes such as Colorado (a 56 - day growing season at 8,500 feet), face many challenges in producing a good crop: a short growing season, low night temperatures, unexpected frosts, and high sunlight intensity.

Cooler night temperatures also allow the scanner to stay cool and minimize the evaporation of water from the surface during the scanning procedure.

Looking across their data, they saw a pattern of decline in tree growth with warmer night temperatures, which, they hypothesize, cause trees to release more CO2 through respiration.

They begin to grow when temperatures reach about 70 degrees in the spring, but they only set fruit after experiencing night temperatures of 35 - 50 degrees followed by less than 80 degree daytime temperatures.

«High night temperature stress changes different physiological processes that ultimately lead to decreased seed set, grain number, grain filling duration, grain filling rate, and final grain weight in canola,» Pokharel says.

Last but not least, bell peppers are at their sweetest in the fall, when the cool night temperatures concentrate the vegetable's natural sugars.

The chic rocker chicks that populate L.A.'s expansive «hoods are pros at picking the perfect backstage - ready coat when the coastal town's night temperatures begin to dip.

Last night the temperature was -8 degrees!

Colder days are still months away, but it's during the month of August that most of the country begins to feel night temperatures drop and that familiar panic sense that summer soon will be over.

Take a dip in the pool and soak up the sun, or relax in your private hot tub to stave off the chilly night temperatures.

Because of this, there are various hazards you will have to deal with such as freezing night temperatures, alien plagues, and keeping your residents happy.

For the moon or Mercury which exhibit day - night temperature gradients on the order of several hundred Kelvin it is not really appropriate to define a mean «effective temperature» in the preceding way.

I live at 41 N Lat, and on a clear night the temperature will drop 20 - 30 F (Figure 1), over a degree F per hour.

The experiment was conducted in controlled - environment glasshouses at the Queensland Crop Development Facility in Queensland, Australia, where eleven lines of wheat were grown under four day / night temperature treatments (15/15 °C, 20/15 °, 25/15 ° and 28/15 °C for 14 - hour days and 10 - hour nights).

Our neighboring planets, Venus and Mars, range the extremes in temperatures: the surface of Venus, at a temperature of 900ø F, is hot enough to melt lead, while during Martian nights the temperature drop to 220ø F below zero.

Desert day — night temperature range is the highest anywhere due to lack of water vapour; not CO2.

In recent years, the elevation of night temperatures here in Washington (where your tax dollars virtually guarantee economic growth), compared to the countryside, has become truly remarkable.

Correcting for these differing observation times can be difficult, as different parts of the world will have very different day / night temperature cycles.

If there were no greenhouse effect, the earth would be subject to the same kind of wild day / night temperature fluctuations as the moon, with no atmosphere (+120 C to -170 C).

The roof radiator was able to cool the water about 2F below the ambient night temperature, and could probably have achieved greater cooling 1) if it had been run longer, and 2) with some further optimization of the radiator.

Could you firstly, explain to me why the temperature difference is significantly greater between day and night in the dry windless desert than it is in the humid stormy tropics and secondly, has the desert day / night temperature difference changed over time in accordance with climate modelling.