Sentences with phrase «peak of summer heat»

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.

We're in the peak of summer heat, yet I'm practically doing a rain dance for the first day of Fall.

Not exact matches

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.

The summer sun is the most tolerable before noon, so if you have things to do that day, doing them as early as possible will let you avoid the peak heat hours of the day.

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.

Analyzing tens of thousands of data points, Schatz and Kucharik found the urban heat island effect peaked in summer, when downtown Madison averaged 7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer at night and 3 degrees warmer during the day when compared to rural Dane County.

When these relationships peak in the summer, it's often hard to tell whether it's lust or love with all of the outdoor heat, but oddly, as the summer ends, it's not unusual to start receiving less text messages from your beau, or to want to spend more time with your friends instead.

When these relationships peak in the summer, it's often hard to tell whether it's lust or love with all of the outdoor heat, but oddly, as the summer ends, it's not unusual to start receiving less text messages from your beau.

Regardless, I would posit the worsening winter ice formation is as expected given the poles suffer first and winters warm faster than summers, BUT that this is happening within two years of the EN peak, which was my time line in 2015, one wonders if the combination of warm EN - heated Pacific waters (oceans move slowly) and warm air are a trailing edge of the EN effect OR this is signallibg a phase change driven by that EN, or is just an extreme winter event.

In contrast, heat energy demand ranges from lows of 25GW in summer to peaks of 300 - 350GW in winter.

I.e. solar activity was high in most of the 20th centiry and then peaked in about 1985, together with a 20 - 30 year heat lag (since it remained high until 1996 as well), and oceans take a few decades to equilbrate, (the same as summer takes about 6 weeks to reach maximum temperature after the summer solstice, and every day it takes a few hours after noon to reach maximum temperature), so the earth has taken a few decades to reach maximum temperature after the long high in solar activity during the 20th century, and will now go down in temperature over the next few decades, with now both a negative PDO, and reduced solar activity.

While New England remains a summer peaking electricity system (with a forecasted 2018 summer peak around 25 percent higher than the forecasted 2018/2019 winter peak), winter peak forecasts are important for assessing the impacts of electric system reliability during a period when much of New England's energy infrastructure is dedicated to space heating (i.e., when interstate natural gas pipelines are used both for electricity generation and for heating homes and businesses).

As the climate of the Pacific Northwest warms, more winter precipitation is falling as rain, compared with historical averages.2 With declining snowpack in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, peak stream flows are occurring earlier, and summer flows are declining.2 These changes are expected to continue as heat - trapping emissions grow, putting more stress on already endangered salmon that return to the Columbia and other rivers in the region to spawn.2

Under climate change, increased water stress, increased peak summer heat stress causing increased mortality, vulnerability to disease and subsequent fire, as well as decreased reproduction rates could lead to large - scale dieback of the boreal forests (77, 86), with transitions to open woodlands or grasslands.

As with many an El Niño before it, the Pacific Ocean began heating up in the summer of 2015, reaching its peak before the year's end.

Peak load month: The month of greatest plant electrical generation during the winter heating season (Oct - Mar) and summer cooling season (Apr - Sept), respectively.

One of the number one causes of vinyl siding melting is the heat from BBQ grills during the peak summer grilling months.