Sentences with phrase «old temperature records»

By Victoria Cavaliere and Brendan O'Brien NEW YORK / MILWAUKEE (Reuters)- A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades - old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people.

Centuries - old temperature records help piece together global climate trends.

Lexington broke a 56 - year - old temperature record on Monday afternoon.

As the summer waxed, old temperature records fell all over the Northern hemisphere; in Russia the heatwave would be brutal enough to kill 11,000 people in Moscow alone, and would cost the nation an estimated 7 - 15 billion US dollars.

NEW YORK / MILWAUKEE (Reuters)- A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades - old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people.

It looks like the older temperature records from the 1930s for example have been adjusted downwards by 0.2 C and the newest temperature records have been adjusted upwards by 0.3 C.

The old temperature record has never been redone using the new set of stations which indicates incompetence.

This despite attempts to exaggerate the increase by adjusting the older temperature records down.

That is, the observed temperature trend over the past 34 years (the period of record analyzed by Cowtan and Way) is a tiny bit closer to the average trend from the collection of climate models used in the new report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) than is the old temperature record.

It looks like the older temperature records from the 1930s for example have been adjusted downwards by 0.2 C and the newest temperature records have been adjusted upwards by 0.3 C.