Sentences with phrase «of summer heat waves»

And the second is that, in some cities, urban planning may have already provided ways to intensify or mitigate the impact of summer heat waves.

Of particular interest, for example, is the possible relationship between climate change and the incidence of summer heat waves [Meehl, G.A. and C. Tebaldi, Science, 305, 994 - 997, 2004] such as those observed in Europe during summer 2003 [see Schaer et al, Nature 427, 332-336 2004; Stott et al, Nature, 432, 610 - 614, 2004].

«A great majority of producers experienced important difficulties in past years as a consequence of summer heat waves,» said Luis Rodrigues, a researcher with a European Commission panel studying acidification.

Few studies look at long - term effects or compare the harm of summer heat waves with the benefits of warmer winters.

This is not too surprising, as late May / early June is historically one of the most stable periods of the year across most of the state, as the winter rainy season has fully tapered off and the peak of the summer heat wave and «monsoonal surge» season has yet to begin.

Although we are in the middle of a summer heat wave, a July 10, 2013 decision by Justice Johnston in Grant v The Corporation of the City of Kingston and Queen's University, ONSC 4689 (CanLII) has caused me to consider legal issues regarding a claim for damages for personal injuries arising from a mid-winter slip and fall incident on an icy sidewalk.

Not exact matches

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

First, Maine is part of the New England grid, which like almost all major grids in the United States has its highest annual peak demand during heat waves in the summer.

If the heat wave does in fact break and injections begin to increase more in line with the historical weekly builds the large overhang of natural gas in inventory that has been limiting any significant rally in natural gas prices this summer could possibly then turn into a deeper bout of selling.

Here in San Francisco, summer usually waits until August to usher itself in, yet we find ourselves in the middle of an unseasonal heat wave right now.

Oh my, do you have any idea how much I want this ice cream!?!? Being gigantically pregnant in the summer, in the middle of a heat wave is no fun.

by itself, it's not an impractical purchase green tomatoes are Summer, and as such, should be sampled at least once but we were in the midst of a heat wave and i don't know about you, turning on the stove to dodge oil splatters to fry up these little beasts is So Impractical

Because now we're in the middle of another mini heat wave and it feels like the middle of summer again.

As the heat wave of summer approaches, we can't think of a better way to cool off than with a smoothie that's both healthy and indulgent.

End - of - summer heat waves aren't uncommon...

I have made many versions of it over the years, brought it to countless barbecues, and eaten it on the back porch during summer heat waves.

With much of the country trapped in a sweltering heat - wave and the hottest summer months (August and September) about to begin, we wanted to examine whether this annual rise in temperature presents any value to second - half MLB bettors.

My little man was born during a wicked heat wave and the rest of the summer was quite hot and humid too.

By the end of the century, if we continue on our current path, we could see heat waves like the one in Chicago in 1995 occurring three times every summer.

There's enough crisscrossing to cause a seasonal «wave of darkening» on parts of the planet during summer, Cantor says, making the surface retain more heat.

The team still doesn't understand the genetic mechanism responsible for the effect, but study author and evolutionary biologist Francisco Rodríguez - Trelles of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona notes a clue: Flies carrying the «summer» inversions to deal with the heat wave produced five times more offspring than they would have in ordinary years.

«The duration, areal size, and intensity of the «summer in March» heat wave are simply off - scale,» says Jeff Masters of the Weather Underground.

Australia has suffered through two back - to - back sweltering summers, with a record - setting heat wave sweeping across the country at the end of 2013 and into 2014.

WRI's data only extended to 2013, but last summer, millions more acres of forest burned in northern Canada amid a record - breaking heat wave (ClimateWire, July 16, 2014).

According to AEA Technology's National Environment Technology Centre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire — which monitors air pollution for the Department of the Environment — ozone pollution peaked in the summer heat waves of 1989 and 1990.

Heat Many people, especially on our AccuWeather.com Facebook page, are wondering what happened to their spring, as winter jumped right to summer for many areas, as heat waves have hit nearly every corner of the United StaHeat Many people, especially on our AccuWeather.com Facebook page, are wondering what happened to their spring, as winter jumped right to summer for many areas, as heat waves have hit nearly every corner of the United Staheat waves have hit nearly every corner of the United States.

It looked at how human greenhouse gas emissions had affected the probability of a devastating heat wave in Europe in the summer of 2003 (estimated to have killed at least 35,000 people.)

In South Asia, a region of deep poverty where one - fifth of the world's people live, new research suggests that by the end of this century climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.

The summer of 2015 also produced one of the deadliest heat waves in history in South Asia, killing an estimated 3,500 people in Pakistan and India.

The prolonged heat wave that has bathed the UK in sunshine over the past month has given the country an unexpected taste of summer that has seemed to be missing in recent years.

In the absence of efforts to curtail those emissions, should we expect more heat waves and other extreme weather this summer?

In the summer of 2016, temperatures in Phalodi, an old caravan town on a dry plain in northwestern India, reached a blistering 51 °C — a record high during a heat wave that claimed more than 1600 lives across the country.

The heat waves that scorched much of the U.S. in 2012 — the hottest year on record in the continental U.S. — and the sun kinks they created caused enough derailments that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued a special safety advisory that summer warning railroads that they should be sure to inspect buckling - prone sections of track.

The region, which is now entering summer, also experienced hundreds of fires this January during a catastrophic heat wave.

«Unabated climate change will probably further weaken summer circulation patterns which could thus aggravate the risk of heat waves,» says co-author Jascha Lehmann «Remarkably, climate simulations for the next decades, the CMIP5, show the same link that we found in observations.

Half of the U.S. population lives in areas that were under a heat wave warning or advisory at some point this summer, she said, adding that was just one example from a year of wild weather.

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.

Some of the more severe events that recently captured the U.S. public's attention included the Texas / Oklahoma heat wave and drought of the summer 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.

The record - breaking heat wave over western and central Europe in the summer of 2003 is an example of an exceptional recent extreme.

This summer also brought brutal heat waves to the eastern seaboard, major flooding to the American heartland, and even a deluge that submerged downtown Nashville — all with minimal ripples of recognition registering throughout the country.

Heat records tumbled across the country this spring and summer as heat waves and warmer - than - normal temperatures blistered much of the United StaHeat records tumbled across the country this spring and summer as heat waves and warmer - than - normal temperatures blistered much of the United Staheat waves and warmer - than - normal temperatures blistered much of the United States.

Schär, C., et al., 2004: The role of increasing temperature variability for European summer heat waves.

While heat waves are a regular part of summer weather, the steady warming of the planet means those heat waves are getting ever hotter, making record heat more and more likely

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The greatest cause of this heat wave is the shrinkage of winter around the North Pole, which took decades before happening this way, one side of the world is bound to be hotter while the other normal, its been going this way for more than a decade, and its getting hotter during winters; no ice in High Arctic Mid-November (1998), bees in N.Y. January, tulips in the UK February, summer heat in North American March, the spinning of the heat zone during winter will continue and expand.

The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heat waves.

Two separate deadly heat waves that occurred in India and Pakistan in the summer of 2015 «were exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change.»

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About half the story is devoted to various explanations, including a recent shift in Pacific Ocean water temperatures and an intense heat wave in May and June that eliminated some of the snow pack that normally moistens forests in the summer.

This summer has been a delicate blend of heat wave and monsoon, necessitating some creative family activities to keep the children (and us grownups!)