Sentences with phrase «outnumbered record low temperatures»

Record high temperatures are currently outnumbering record low temperatures by about two to one, and those ratios are projected to be about 20 to 1 by mid-century and 50 to 1 by 2100, said Jerry Meehl, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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Their study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, also found evidence that climate change is skewing the proportion of record high temperatures to record low temperatures in the continental United States, with extremely hot days now outnumbering extremely cold days by 2 - to - 1.

Since 2015, the number of daily record high temperature in the U.S. has outnumbered the number of daily record lows by more than 3 - to - 1.

During June, July and August, record high minimum temperatures outnumbered record low minimum temperatures by about three to one.

And in 2016 the number of daily record high minimum temperatures outnumbered record low minimum temperatures 7 - to - 1.

In the last decade, daily record high temperatures outnumbered record lows in the United States two to one, and that ratio is increasing.

Since 1950 the number of heat waves worldwide has increased, and heat waves have become longer.5 The hottest days and nights have become hotter and more frequent.6 7 In the past several years, the global area hit by extremely unusual hot summertime temperatures has increased 50 - fold.8 Over the contiguous United States, new record high temperatures over the past decade have consistently outnumbered new record lows by a ratio of 2:1.9 In 2012, the ratio for the year through June 18 stands at more than 9:1.10 Though this ratio is not expected to remain at that level for the rest of the year, it illustrates how unusual 2012 has been, and how these types of extremes are becoming more likely.