Climatology is the study
of average weather over time or in a region.
The activity can be differentiated through a choice of activity cards describing climate through a simple statement, a more detailed explanation, and graphs
of average weather conditions.
Not exact matches
The startup began by creating a Shazam - like song recognition app called Midomi; now, the newly released Hound app is capable
of answering complex voice prompts like, «Show me all below -
average - priced restaurants within a five - mile radius that are open past 10 p.m. but don't include Chinese or pizza places,» or «What's the
weather like in the capital
of the biggest state in the U.S.?»
Average home prices hover just under $ 1.6 - million in this community, but this also buys you «exceptional schools, amazing
weather and a deep sense
of community,» explains Morely Myron, realtor with Re / Max Colonial Pacific Realty.
Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports
of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop
of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support
of December's
weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year
average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories
of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.
The lower lows and lower highs, along with the break below the 200 - day moving
average, presently situated at 1.3645, Domestic focus for the pound is now on today's release
of the April services PMI, where we expect a 53.5 headline after a weak,
weather - impacted 51.7 reading in March.
Cocoa prices are now trading below their 20 - day but still far above their 100 - day moving
average as the trend is mixed as prices topped out on April 2nd around 2647 as the hot and dry
weather conditions still do persist in West Africa, but the commodity markets, in general, are drifting lower due to the fact
of the possible trade war with China.
More perplexing is that the
average of six regional business surveys showed solid gains last month, although they too were mostly hit by the bad
weather.
Now if you go back ten years, a period that includes the bubble, the Group
of Fifteen did better,
averaging a positive 8.13 % per year.Even for that ten year period, however, they underperformed the value group, on
average, by more than 5 % per year.6 With a good tailwind, those large cap funds were not great — underperforming the index by almost 2 % per year — and in stormy
weather their boats leaked badly.
Additionally, investors looking to invest in this space should seek out companies with a long track record and a healthy balance sheet that would be capable
of weathering a sustained period
of above -
average catastrophe claims.
According to the Environment America Research and Policy Center, more than 15 million Americans live in counties that have
averaged one or more
weather - related disasters per year since the beginning
of 2006.
He has not really addressed the fact that the notion
of climate, as distinct from the notion
of weather, is not concerned with particular features
of a single trajectory or history, but with the fact that there are some general features about certain kinds
of time and system
averages over many trajectories - and that these
average features tend to show certain kinds
of regularity or slow secular variation that are not apparent in a single trajectory (the term secular here has a technical meaning, not the common one
of «not religious»).
A
average check
of the
weather will show an unsurprising 16 degrees — that's Fahrenheit, with a wind chill
of 3 degrees.During that time
of year, «cryogenically frozen» rings a little too close to home.
You prepare for them by YEAR ROUND sending out teams, evaluating the environment and
weather trends, comparing past trends (firestorms in Cali come about every 3 to 4 years on
average), future projections, and physical efforts to stop new burns from going out
of control.
The Agency reminds us that small changes in the
average temperature
of the planet can translate to large and potentially dangerous shifts in climate and
weather.
In the grain - growing areas we've had an
average winter crop but some
of the more western regions missed out through a combination
of dry
weather and frost,» he said.
Like Thursday
of this year,
weather conditions affected how the golfers played on Sunday, with the
average score being 74.66.
Having received 115 percent
of its
average annual snowfall total so far this season, the mountain expects to offer skiing and riding on all four mountain faces, including more than 100 features over at Carinthia Parks for as long as the
weather cooperates.
Most scientists and climatologists agree that weird
weather is at least in part the result
of global warming — a steady increase in the
average temperature
of the surface
of the Earth thought to be caused by increased concentrations
of greenhouse gasses produced by human activity.
When
weather conditions allow (an
average temperature
of 20 degrees Fahrenheit or colder for 5 consecutive days, 5 - 6 inches
of ground frost), park district staff will begin flooding the ice rink at Sunset Woods Park.
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.
Compiled by scientists at 13 federal agencies, it contains the results
of thousands
of studies showing that climate change caused by greenhouse gases is affecting
weather in every part
of the United States, causing
average temperatures to rise dramatically since the 1980s.
Due to a heavier than
average number
of weather events this past snow season Oneida County DPW has determined the
average cost per mile was higher than the 5 year
average contracted amount.
Knowing the climate
average can help determine the productivity
of a crop or where the best
weather for a beach vacation will be.
Last spring a research team led by Michael Tippett, associate professor
of applied physics and applied mathematics at Columbia Engineering, published a study showing that the
average number
of tornadoes during outbreaks — large - scale
weather events that can last one to three days and span huge regions — has risen since 1954.
The strength and path
of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have
averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme
weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.
Every ten years the data center calculates new U.S. «climate normals,» or 30 - year
average values, for meteorological elements such as temperature, precipitation, and heating and cooling degree days for thousands
of U.S.
weather stations.
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.
If the world keeps burning fossil fuels and does little else to prevent climate change — the trajectory we are on —
weather events now considered extreme, like the one in 1997 which led to floods so severe that hundreds
of thousands
of people in Africa were displaced, and the one in 2009 that led to the worst droughts and bushfires in Australia's history, will become
average by 2050.
The second simulation overlaid that same
weather data with a «pseudo global warming» technique using an accepted scenario that assumes a 2 - to 3 - degree increase in
average temperature, and a doubling
of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
«Climate models have improved greatly in the last 10 years, which allows us to look in detail at the simulation
of daily
weather rather than just monthly
averages,» said Pierce.
«Then, if the flash rate suddenly jumps to at least twice the standard deviation
of that running
average, there is a high probability the updraft in that cell has strengthened, a supercell is forming and severe
weather is more likely with that storm.»
Climate, however, is the bigger picture
of a region's
weather: the
average, over 30 years (according to the World Meteorological Association's definition),
of the
weather pattern in a region.
«The goal
of the
weather service is to get an
average warning
of tornadoes
of about 10 minutes,» Bedard says.
They use «ensemble» modeling — which takes an
average of many different
weather models.
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 influence.
Ruiz, who contributed to the report, noted that an analysis
of weather records at one páramo research station showed increases in minimum temperatures were almost twice that
of lower elevations, while increases in maximum temperatures jumped to nearly three times the
average at lower elevations.
Threats — ranging from the destruction
of coral reefs to more extreme
weather events like hurricanes, droughts and floods — are becoming more likely at the temperature change already underway: as little as 1.8 degree Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius)
of warming in global
average temperatures.
«Our results show that the uncertainty estimates
of greenhouse gas inventories depend on the calculation method and on how the input data for the model, such as
weather and litterfall data, have been
averaged,» says Aleksi Lehtonen, researcher at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke).
In summer, however, the analysis
of observational data coming from
weather stations and satellites reveals a clear decrease in the
average storm activity.
Between 1986 and 2014, the
average pH
of rainfall for the nearby city
of Chongqing, China, varied between 4.3 and 5,
weather records reveal.
Below -
average sea - surface temperatures commonly occur following an El Niño and appear to be associated with
weather events opposite that
of El Niño.
«Drought years» happen on
average every five years in the Amazon and are typically a result
of changes to wind and
weather patterns brought about by warming in the Atlantic Ocean during events
of the climate phenomenon El Niño.
A single installation
of a GPS and seismic site includes over 3,000 pounds
of equipment and takes, on
average, about four hours to install, depending on
weather conditions and proximity
of the aircraft to the installation site.
Rainfall in August was just 4 percent
of the
average, according to the local
weather forecasters.
The combination provides for a dramatic increase in record hot
weather.27 Here «variance» is a measure
of the spread
of temperatures around the «mean» or
average temperature.
While
weather patterns played a clear role in boosting temperatures in many parts
of the country, the overall rise in
average temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions has made record heat more and more likely and record cold increasingly rare.
The
average rate
of injection
of carbon into the climate system during these hyperthermals was slower than the present human - made injection
of fossil fuel carbon, yet it was faster than the time scale for removal
of carbon from the surface reservoirs via the
weathering process [3], [208], which is tens to hundreds
of thousands
of years.
The
weather map was painted in red from border to border in the eastern two - thirds
of the country for nearly all
of February (and winter for that matter) with only the Pacific Northwest cooler than
average.
Imagine sea levels rising by feet instead
of inches, global
average temperatures increasing by many degrees instead
of just fractions and an increase in other cataclysmic, costly and fatal
weather events.