Sentences with phrase «out of a heat wave»

I read this post and first saw «Wind and Relief» (maybe because we're just coming out of a heat wave).

Not exact matches

A full half of 3,863 coral reefs in the magnificent ecosystem were wiped out by catastrophic bleaching events caused by searing heat waves in 2016 and 2017.

But the wildfires in Sonoma and Napa county were more like the hurricanes that ravaged Necker Island in that scientists attribute their ferocity to climate change: specifically, unprecedented heat waves that killed trees and dried out underbrush, leaving huge amounts of fuel for the flames.

We may all have suspected that heat waves don't bring out our best selves, but having scientific confirmation of the fact should nudge you to be more aware of the effect.

Your first stop should be The National Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based events.

With the coming of heat waves and high electricity bills keeping it out of my 3rd floor apartment, recipes that require short cook times become more and more appealing.

We tie up our boots and walk out into the mountains with a heat wave of hope built up inside us.

With time running out in the final heat, he paddled straight into the path of the 40 - foot waves, rather than taking the long way around.

Taken with the orbiting Chandra Observatory, it shows the hottest, most violent objects in the galaxy: black holes gobbling down matter, gas heated to millions of degrees by dense, whirling neutron stars, and the high - energy radiation from stars that have exploded, sending out vast amounts of material that slam into surrounding gas, creating shock waves that heat the gas tremendously, generating X-rays.

This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

Researchers at the Universities of Lisbon (Portugal) and Uppsala (Sweden) studied the behaviour of three kinds of amphibians that inhabit the Iberian Peninsula: the European tree frog (Hyla arborea), the Mediterranean tree frog (Hyla meridionalis) and the Iberian painted frog (Discoglosus galganoi) to find out what effect heat waves can have on their diets.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

The older idea that acoustic waves flowing out of lower levels heats the corona was abandoned in the 1970s, when the Orbiting Solar Observatory 8 spacecraft did not see such waves in the chromosphere, the layer just above the photosphere (the apparent «surface» of the sun in visible light).

«Basically, one can not account for the heating of the corona by a radiative flow, so we think the corona is heated by some sort of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) wave flowing out of lower levels of the sun.

It turns out the energy in this whip - like process is high enough to generate Alfvén waves, a strong kind of wave scientists suspect is key to heating the sun's atmosphere and propelling the solar wind, which constantly bathes the solar system with charged particles from the sun.

«There was a strange wave mode which bounced the heating beams out of the experiment,» said Zhisong Qu, from The Australian National University (ANU), lead author of the research paper published in Physical Review Letters.

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.

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There's also evidence that as it wobbles, it can get stuck out of kilter, which can lead to more persistent weather extremes, including heat waves, cold snaps, droughts and flooding.

And while that high ranking was fueled in part by a major heat wave out West, a big factor was the very warm nighttime temperatures across a large swath of the country.

Heat waves Usually increase between Mornings and Late afternoons and Stepping out in This time Enhances Risk of Heat stroke.

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

I nearly wet myself the first time I fired my weapon rapidly and noticed that heat waves came out of the barrel.

«It was during the heat wave, and I sat and watched California run out of electricity,» she recalls.

Arizona is currently in the grips of a sweltering heat wave — in the midst of the scorching temperatures, eight lucky shelter dogs, from the Maricopa County Animal Care and Control facility, were able to enjoy a refreshingly cool outing at an area pet resort's pool.

Spend your holiday taking the kayak and stand - up paddleboards out on the water, swimming in the heated infinity pool, lounging on the terrace, enjoying meals from the barbecue at the al - fresco dining area and lingering into the evening around the firepit — all to the sound of waves breaking gently on the shore.

Along with the video projections of her «pilot wave» experiment, the exhibit includes eight large abstract paintings in which Auerbach scraped rhythmic wave patterns into layers of wet acrylic paint, plus a single, extremely delicate sculpture made by the artist out of flame - heated rods of borosilicate glass.

After this year's edition of the Frieze Art Fair, which took place on Randall's Island in New York, the fair's organizers will give out «some compensation» to its exhibitors for putting up with the heat wave — which Frieze was unprepared for — that created unbearable «sauna - like conditions» at the event, writes Anny Shaw of the Art Newspaper.

With the drawn out close of winter comes a new wave of outdoor installations: this month will first heat up with new large - scale sculptures at the High Line and the Broadway Malls.

She began this work in the spring of 2015 in the Doha and Gulf region where she was inspired by the massive city structures erected seemingly out of the sand and the scorching temperatures that made a hazy aura as heat waves rose through the air.

As you may know, we have some satellites flowing around out of the atmosphere, which measure short waves (SW reflection) and heat (LW emission) from below.

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.

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Once again, a group of believers (Leviticus) claims that a strong change is discernable in some aspect of the AGW mythos, yet when the Leviticus paper is actually read, it is clear that as Pielke, Sr. points out, OHC is in reality not doing what is predicted, is significantly lower than the AGW prediction, and that Leviticus offers no mechanism to move this heat fromthe surface to the depths, unless one accepts arm waving as the method of moving heat content.

Their work encompasses a range of problems and time scales: from five - day model predictions of hurricane track and intensity, to understanding the causes of changes in extremes over the past century, to building new climate prediction models for seamless predictions out to the next several years, to earth system model projections of human - caused changes in various extremes (heat waves, hurricanes, droughts, etc.) over the coming century.

«We're trying to figure out what it means in terms of weather and things that impact people day to day, such as storms and heat waves and droughts.»

The Argo float armada is getting better and better (number of floats, calibration shakedown, software for analyzing results)-- I wouldn't be surprised to see 2009 and 2010 showing ocean heat increase down to 2000m, when the next wave of papers comes out.

It did this first by taking out all the properties and processes of the distinctly different electromagnetic waves, and the meme introduced to drum this fiction into «background basics as if real physics», is «all electromagnetism is the same, all create heat when absorbed».

When someone pointed out the European heat wave had killed thousands, I cited the fact that in Britain alone, some 40,000 extra deaths occur in winter each year compared to the rest of the seasons... after that, the claims that hot was worse than cold dropped off precipitously.

Willis says: «When someone pointed out the European heat wave had killed thousands, I cited the fact that in Britain alone, some 40,000 extra deaths occur in winter each year compared to the rest of the seasons â $ ¦ after that, the claims that hot was worse than cold dropped off precipitously.

They go on to point out that only 8 % of total media coverage even mentioned the role of man made climate change in the massive heat waves.

However, she pointed out that the earliest French harvest ever recorded — 2003, when a deadly heat wave hit Europe and grapes were picked a full month ahead of the once - usual time — did not produce particularly exceptional wines.

I am weary enough here of pointing out this sort of fallacy, let alone doing it over there as well, but in that case, just in the 19th century there were some 12 very severe Russian heat waves, where forest combusted and peat bogs smouldered, crops died and thousands perished from flame and hunger.

This takes all four seasons into account, whereas week - long or even month - long heat waves or cold waves tend to be ironed out over the course of a calendar year.

«Global warming boosts the probability of really extreme events, like the recent US heat wave, far more than it boosts more moderate events,» point out climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf and Dim Coumou in a blogpost on RealClimate.org.

Victoria experienced supply failures in February 2000 when a heat wave swept across south eastern Australia, causing extremely high peak demand at a time when an industrial dispute had reduced available capacity by 20 % and two generating plants were unexpectedly out of service.

All over the big shopping plazas the air conditioning roared, sending out waves of heat which raised the ambient temperature of the areas, creating more work for the air conditioning.

This lack of the state of the art, I think, is one of the reasons that the focus in WGIII shifted from its original conception in the SAR (the notorious case where one draft valued Indian lives at one tenth the value of First World lives, leading to a conclusion that you could kill 10 Indians with heat waves but save one American from death by winter cold, and it would all balance out).

You don't want to be heating some water only to have it slosh out of the tray when it rides a wave before it can evaporate.

Given this plain and simple refusal to accept or even consider the facts here, I have little doubt that you will dispel out of hand any reference to the attribution studies linking the observed warming to GHGs (like e.g. Stott et al. 2000), or the following droughts in the Mediterranean region or the Moscow Heat wave.