Sentences with phrase «normal winter season»

And I'm grateful to be on the other side of it and into what feels like a much more normal winter season for us.

The suppliers in the Europe are reporting warmer than normal winter seasons, which has caused for some concern about the coming 2016 harvest.

Not exact matches

An above - average winter wet season was needed to make a significant dent in the drought, but the year ended around normal.

During winter break, viewpoints and hiking trails are more crowded than normal, but still don't even come close to peak season crowds in other parks like Yosemite and Zion.

The winter season across the region provided average temperatures 1.0 to 4.0 degrees F (0.5 to 2.2 degrees C) colder than normal except in Minnesota and western Iowa where average temperatures were near normal.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

Although the winter and early spring are the normal time of year for dolphin strandings to occur, the weather this season has been unusually warm, leading to speculation about climate change and subsequently low «distribution of prey» as possible causes.

They sum up succinctly, «The current cold weather in the UK is part of the normal regional variations that take place in the winter season.

Only since 2007/08 have things seemed to have returned to normal with 2007/08 being an average winter with a very cold and snowy spring (our snowiest April on record with 50 ″... nearly a season's worth of snowfall!).