Sentences with phrase «polar weather we're having»

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From water - and snow - resistant parkas made from skins worn by hunters in polar regions to garments fabricated using woven straw, such as the ancient Japanese mino, people have long sought ways to remain dry while outside in wet weather.

The onslaught of polar vortexes has me a little under the weather.

Whether it's ridiculously hot or so cold it would put a polar vortex to shame, Chicago's weather rarely cooperates with what your family has planned.

The Footmuff has a polar fleece lining to keep your baby warm and cosy and a shower - proof front to keep them nice and dry in wet, or frosty weather.

«We have just come from the cold dark (polar night) winter just over a month ago, so the risk with beautiful weather is that many would rather go skiing in the sunshine.»

In addition to the challenging weather, researchers have to watch out for polar bears.

That would fulfil US troops» weather - prediction needs, but would not provide the polar orbit needed to study sea ice.

When most people think about wildlife in a changing climate, they think of polar bears clinging to melting ice, but even species who have adapted to tropical weather are being impacted by the changes to their environment.

The charging may create sparking, or electrostatic breakdown, and this «breakdown weathering» process has possibly changed the very nature of the moon's polar soil, suggesting that permanently shadowed regions, which hold clues to our solar system's past, may be more active than previously thought.

For years, concern about NOAA's troubled polar satellite program has focused on climate sensors, six of which were stripped from JPSS's predecessor, NPOESS, in 2006, to preserve weather data.

She has also led the agency's work to prepare for a probable gap in data from the series of polar - orbiting satellites that feed observations to NOAA's computer weather models.

Professor Baldwin added: «Natural large pressure fluctuations in the polar stratosphere tend to last a long time — at least a month, and we see this reflected as surface pressure changes that look very much like the North Atlantic Oscillation — which has significant effects on weather and extreme events across Europe.»

The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a record low winter peak for the third year in a row

Extreme weather like droughts and large tropical cyclones would become more common, fragile ecosystems like coral reefs would be at risk of destruction and polar ice melting would swamp many coastal cities over the next century.

You have satellite phones and things like that, but still, for example, in this arctic expedition, it was several field seasons under very tough conditions, high winds, cold, polar bear territory, you know, brutal weather, difficult logistics and the expense, high expense these days; but they stuck with it and they hit pay dirt.

Now, we have been able to observe the polar weather up - close every two months,» said Alberto Adriani, Juno's co-investigator from the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Rome, in the same statement.

The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned even seasoned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a record low winter peak for the third year in a row.

This is the first direct evidence of a sustained weather system generated by polar aurorae on any planet, and this is the first time a weather feature in Jupiter's upper atmosphere has been observed away from the planet's bright aurorae.

Decades of weather reports show a strong link between the polar blasts that have plunged the eastern United States in a deep freeze several times in the past few winters and the warming of the Arctic, where temperatures have been hitting unusual highs, a new study reports.

maternity jeans question — I thought I could do with my dresses with tights and jumpers until the baby come, but with this polar weather we're having, I need a pair of jeans to keep me warm for the weekends.

Since we're on the verge of another winter storm and polar vortex (OMG), thought I'd share some winter skin tips and some of my favorite cold weather essentials:

The weather in NYC has been a bit bi polar lately!

But I'm afraid she will suffer with the polar opposite weather My dad is willing to keep her so I do have another option, please be brutally honest!

All siding with its infinite growth paradigm, so I'm not surprised to see you writing counter-pieces to the harsh truth, which, as it stands, is that we have a pretty much dead and severely warming ocean, daily record - breaking jet - stream related weather incidents, which in turn are caused by polar temperature anomalies of +20 C as of late.

Some really interesting recent weather events in the High Arctic have shown me the reality of a warmer polar region, snow flakes do not melt in an ocean -1.5 C cold, and ice does not form when its -6 C outside.

Obtaining the globally averaged temperature from weather station data has a well - known problem: there are some gaps in the data, especially in the polar regions and in parts of Africa.

Since the Jet Stream is the major dividing line between mid latitude temperate weather systems and polar cold weather, how its gyrations are affected by external factors can have a big impact on mid to higher latitude weather.

«Drowned polar bears have not been reported by other scientists, but the hypothesis that a long search for sea ice makes it more likely that bears will get caught in stormy weather and drown is regarded as plausible.»

But in polar regions [within arctic circle] one is still going to have 6 months per year of darkness and therefore will still have freezing weather, though polar ice may not form during the winter.

A team of Russian meteorologists are calling out for help as their weather station, located 2,800 miles from Moscow, have been seiged by a pack of polar bears.

The middle latitudes of the world — between the tropic lines (Cancer and Capricorn) and the polar circles (Arctic and Antarctic)-- have seasons of weather and a wide diversity of landscapes and vegetation.

During the winter of 2014 in the northern hemisphere we've been hearing about the polar vortex on weather forecasts for more than two months.

The southern polar has little «amplification» and the southern hemisphere has higher annual solar insulation, a natural oscillation that shifts clouds to were they have greater reflective impact and energy where it has less atmospheric resistance, doesn't qualify as a climate impact, only a weather impact.

The oceans are not rising any faster than they have since the end of the last ice age, polar ice caps and glaciers are not uniformly melting, and weather is not getting more extreme.

■ Carbon dioxide has not caused weather to become more extreme, polar ice and sea ice to melt, or sea level rise to accelerate.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/13/sea-level-acceleration-not-so-fast-recently/ You claim that the melting of polar ice (much of which is due to Arctic ice being forced south by local weather patterns rather than melting due to temperature) has some issues.

The IPCC even says there is no change in recent extreme weather events and polar bear numbers have increased by 400 to 500 % since 1950.

Deep freeze — New Zealand is shivering through a one - in -50-year polar blast that has brought snow to much of the country, the weather service says.

This is a 1995 analysis by Shell International B.V. scientist Peter Langcake of whether climate change was in fact underway and if, as some scientists were suggesting, a «signal» had been detected showing human influence on climate from temperature, weather, polar ice melt and other data.

So, the original theory of AGW would have produced warmer air coming from the polar regions which would have created a smaller temperature difference between systems, and thus would have created fewer extreme weather events, not more of them.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

Most of the evidence is that species thrive in warmer weather, and polar bears have survived several inter-glaciation periods where the north pole melted entirely in the summer.

The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned even seasoned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a record low winter peak for the third year in a row.

The sheer volume of energy that the Hadley cell transports, and the depth of the heat sink that is the polar cell, ensures that the effects of transient weather phenomena are not only have negligible effect on the system as a whole, but — except under unusual circumstances — do not form.

Ever since the very cold weather of the 2014 polar vortex, the utility industry has been debating how to deal with the behavior of gas - burning power plants that did not contract for gas deliveries for power production in the coldest weather, and the simultaneous failure of coal plants due to weather conditions.

Polar sea ice depends on the entire oceanic - atmospheric polar «weather» system — from seabed to upper stratosphere — which sober scientists have long realized is an extremely complex one and is still very poorly understood.

Meteorologists across the nation have pointed to a «polar vortex» as one of the many systems responsible for what is set to be a rare and extreme weather weekend.

While northerners are no stranger to snowfall, freezing rain and cold weather, most have not experienced a weather phenomenon quite like what the polar vortex promises.

While climate change does not affect Earth's tilt, it does have potential implications for many of the other factors that influence winter weather in the US, including Arctic sea ice, the polar jet stream, the polar vortex, and El Niño.

Two systematic calibrations have been compiled for the visible radiances measured by the series of AVHRR instruments flown on the NOAA operational polar weather satellites: one by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, anchored on NASA ER - 2 under - flights in the 1980s and early 1990s and covering the period 1981 - 2009, and one by the PATMOS - x project, anchored on comparisons to the MODIS instruments on the AQUA and TERRA satellites in the 2000s and covering the period 1979 - 2010 (this result also includes calibration for the near - IR channels).