Sentences with phrase «of heat wave days»

The number of heat wave days has been systematically falling since the 1930s.

When the two characteristics of extreme heat (duration and frequency) were combined, the number of heat wave days per summer was projected to increase by four - to five-fold in many western mountain states and Texas (red - orange).

«The number of heat wave days may go up from about 5 to between 30 and 40 every year,» they add.

Not exact matches

Are your sales down during the dark days of winter or the heat waves of summer?

But a pleasant spell of ten days I just spent in San Francisco visiting my family (made after California's heat wave broke!)

Whether you're in the dog days of July or in the midst of a heat wave lingering into September, a frozen treat is always welcome.

A few days later, at the height of the heat wave, I was cooling off after work with radio chums Ward Todd, Bill Skilling and Joe Schuler at the Hoffman House.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER On Saturday, July 20, as most of New York crumpled under the seventh day of the worst heat wave in memory, Carlos Menchaca and Antonio Reynoso, first - time City Council candidates from different Brooklyn districts, pedaled 15 miles on bicycle from East Williamsburg to Sunset Park, greeting voters and drawing attention to where -LSB-...]

New research suggests the annual number of days that some part of the ocean is experiencing a heat wave has increased 54 percent from 1925 to 2016, researchers report April 10 in Nature Communications.

The climate, of course, continues to vary around the increased averages, and extremes have changed consistently with these averages — frost days and cold days and nights have become less common, while heat waves and warm days and nights have become more common.

Even though the recent heat wave has ended, weeks of drought and days of 100 - degree temperatures have already taken a toll on this year's corn crop in a large part of the Midwestern United States.

For example, heat waves were particularly severe, droughts were extensive in tropical forests, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet accelerated in association with shifts in the 8 - day maximum temperature.

A study published yesterday in Nature Communications suggests that there's been a 54 percent increase in the number of annual «marine heatwave days» since the 1920s — that is, the total number of days each year that a marine heat wave is occurring somewhere around the world.

The stronger the amplitude of the wavenumber - 5 pattern, the more likely it was that a heat wave occurred 15 days later.

Researchers also found that the West has experienced more frequent and severe heat waves, with the number of extremely hot days increasing by up to four days per decade since 1950.

In the pessimistic scenario they would be anywhere from 7 to 15 degrees hotter, and in Los Angeles, to say nothing of Fresno, there would be months of heat waves — at least three days in a row in the 90s.

Typically, scientists define a marine heat wave as at least five consecutive days of unusually high temperatures for a particular ocean region or season.

The new research, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), could potentially enable forecasts of the likelihood of U.S. heat waves 15 - 20 days out, giving society more time to prepare for these often - deadly events.

The report lists 30 cities that face increased health risks from heat waves worsened by global warming, based on a combination of four factors: average number of summer days with «oppressive» summer heat, the percentage of households without central air conditioning, ground - level ozone levels, and the percentage of households below the poverty line.

What if one day, your computer, TV or smart phone could process data with light waves instead of an electrical current, making those devices faster, cheaper and more sustainable through less heat and power consumption?

Across the globe in recent decades, there has been an increase in the number of hot extremes, particularly very warm nights.1 Hot days have also been hotter and more frequent.2 Since 1950 the number of heat waves has increased and heat waves have become longer.3

Total duration of heat waves has shown an increase of 1.3 days per decade and maximum duration, 0.76 days per decade.

Stockholm and Rome would see the greatest increase in the number of heat - wave days, and Prague and Vienna will see the largest spike in maximum temperatures during a heatwave.

One looked at the historical temperature record and compared how often such severe heat waves occurred a century ago versus today using 3 - day averages; the other used climate models that simulate a world with and without warming to see how the odds of such an event shifted.

Then, they calculated the total exposure to extreme heat in «person - days,» by multiplying the number of heat waves - days when temperatures reach at least 95 degrees - by the number of people who are projected to live in the areas where extreme heat is occurring.

I aslo may mention that we are in the middle of record - breaking heat wave these days which dosen't help!

we're in the middle of a heat wave in the winter, and while i know i should concerned because global warming is real, it's hard not to enjoy such pleasant weather after so many cold, rainy days this season!

To take this heat free beach waves hairstyle into day two, or even day three, I find that rebraiding hair at the end of the day helps a lot.

Short, sporadic (usually a 3 days of springy weather followed by snow flurries or heat wave, then 2 weeks of chilly rain, repeated for 2 months) and uninspiring.

It's no longer a heat wave because it's been so hot and humid for days upon days of recent.

The heat wave of 2012 seems to be continuing past Labor Day this year, but that doesn't change the fact that fall...

Any given day can start out on the chilly side, then rapidly transition into a wave of heat.

But as we all know, in the UK those sunny days and record breaking 24 heat waves aren't always that long lasting, and so having some outerwear and a brolly in your back pocket (not literally of course) is essential.

These past few days have been heat wave central in Toronto, but pretty silk scarves have done the job of keeping hair off my face, and well, OK, the weather is so terrible that only an A / C can cool one down, but nonetheless, on any other day, they would have kept me cool.

When the day calls for you to run around like a madwoman or the temperature outside starts flirting with the heat wave record, a sweater can be suffocating even in the most arctic of A / C tundras (that's right, even bird - boned, lizard people overheat sometimes).

An unusual heat wave over much of the eastern part of the nation last month forced many schools to shorten their instructional day temporarily and reopened longstanding questions about weather - related school closings.

We spent a number of days in the Tiguan in heat - wave conditions, and the three - zone climate control worked a treat.

But the heat wave days are upon us, and rather than boil in the recesses of the city, hop on a car / bike / Lyft / Muni and cool down with a visit to one of these beaches in your local national parks!

Straight off the bat at the 2017 event, Round 1 ran there and in one of the last heats of the day, Sebastian Zietz scored what would end up as one of the best waves of the year.

Take a look back at some of the event's best waves, the incredible action from Finals day, and John John Florence's dominant run to the Title, including his fourth 19 - plus heat total in the Final over Kolohe Andino.

While the rest of the country is experiencing an autumnal cool - off right now, SF is experiencing its typical October heat wave, so that new black sweater or suit won't work when it's 85 in the city during the day.

During the last days of Autumn or all through the Winter, whether you're in a heat wave or early snow, you likely have much to draw from where a little color is bursting from the sleepy hues.

Looking at the graph in the articl I am linking to, what were the frequency of heat or cold waves from 1921 to 1950 which show many more blocking days than the 1951 to 1980 time period.

Just the other day I posted evidence that the recent runup in US heat waves, seen in the context of the last 100 years or so, is hardly unprecedented, a local effect paralleled by similar run - ups in the past.

That REM lyric has come to mind several times in recent days as the occasional friend or Dot Earth reader has described the spate of devastating floods, heat waves and fires, giant icebergs and other disruptive events as a sign that some momentous unraveling is beginning.

I realized just how special this July heat wave was several days ago when we were driven to pull my 1988 Climatrol room air conditioner out of the attic, dust it off and turn it on in a bedroom, creating one cool zone in our otherwise roasting Hudson Valley house.

The amount of heat kicked back, in the same part of the spectrum as the incident sun energy waves, due to a white roof looks to my rough calculation to be about the same (within an order of magnitude) as the amount of heat energy discharged from a typical large automobile operating for about an hour a day.

There is growing evidence from EuroHEAT that the effects of heat - wave days on mortality are greater, particularly among the elderly, when levels of ozone or particulate matter are high.

Springtime cold air outbreaks (at least two consecutive days during which the daily average surface air temperature is below 95 % of the simulated average wintertime surface air temperature) are projected to continue to occur throughout this century.19 As a result, increased productivity of some crops due to higher temperatures, longer growing seasons, and elevated CO2 concentrations could be offset by increased freeze damage.20 Heat waves during pollination of field crops such as corn and soybean also reduce yields (Figure 18.3).4 Wetter springs may reduce crop yields and profits, 21 especially if growers are forced to switch to late - planted, shorter - season varieties.

The frequency of major heat waves in the Midwest has increased over the last six decades.59 For the United States, mortality increases 4 % during heat waves compared with non-heat wave days.60 During July 2011, 132 million people across the U.S. were under a heat alert — and on July 20 of that year, the majority of the Midwest experienced temperatures in excess of 100 °F.