Sentences with phrase «number of snowstorms»

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Long Islanders in a number of areas Wednesday said the U.S. Postal Service has not caught up with delays officially pinned on the flu and the intense snowstorm that hit Jan. 4.

With temperatures reaching the high 30's and a snowstorm on the way, I've decided to keep a number of winter accessories still hanging in my closet.

I get annoyed by weekend snowstorms because they inhibit the number of snow days a person can take.

Their tread pattern seeks to serve both dry - weather grip and snowstorm bite, so we see medium - size tread blocks that provide some lateral stiffness along with an increased number of biting edges.

«As I travelled from city to city, I had to overcome a number of logistical challenges in order to complete the tour, from snowstorms that made highway travel unsafe to unseasonably warm weather that affected ice conditions,» says Aulenbach.

While the rest of the country was shivering with record temperatures and snowstorms this winter, Mother Nature treated us to a number of balmy 60 degree days and sunshine here on the Southern Oregon coast.

These were quickly followed by a number of paintings featuring spiral patterns, the most notable of which in the exhibition is The Snowstorm commissioned by the Arts Council for the Festival of Britain in 1951.

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.

On the one hand, winter snowstorms have drawn massive attention and have affected incredibly large numbers of people.

Plus, just as the total amount of snow has declined in parts of the world over recent decades (especially in the Northern Hemisphere), there have also been an increasing number of very heavy storms, including heavy snowstorms.