Sentences with phrase «previous record low»

This Year's Arctic Sea Ice Extent Shattered Previous Record Low.

A fortnight after Miliband was criticised for omitting passages of his planned conference speech which dealt with the deficit, the 19 % of voters signalling trust in Labour to run the economy equals the party's previous record low on this question, which was recorded in June 2013 (pdf).

In a multipronged approach intended to grease the gears of the economy by making borrowing easier and cheaper, the Bank of England cut its key rate to 0.25 percent from a previous record low of 0.5 percent.

At a time when he has been facing calls to go, this gives him a new record low net score of — 42, which is three points worse than the previous record low of -39 that he scored in June.

This year's maximum extent, reached on March 7 at 5.57 million square miles (14.42 million square kilometers), is 37,000 square miles (97,00 square kilometers) below the previous record low, which occurred in 2015, and 471,000 square miles (1.22 million square kilometers) smaller than the average maximum extent for 1981 - 2010.

The Antarctic summer minimum was 813,000 square miles, or 900,000 square miles below the 1981 - 2010 average and 71,000 square miles below the previous record low set in 1997.

At its minimum on September 16, the ice covered an area about the size of India; that is 18 percent smaller than the previous record low, set in 2007.

The previous record low spring snow cover extent occurred in 1968.

The previous record low for the 30 - year fixed was set the week of October 4, when it averaged 3.36 percent, and the 15 - year fixed was set the week of October 18, when it averaged 2.66 percent.

34 (May 2007); National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), «Arctic Sea Ice Shatters all Previous Record Lows,» press release (Boulder, CO: 1 October 2007); Stroeve quoted in «Arctic Ice Retreating 30 Years Ahead of Projections,» Environment News Service, 30 April 2007.

That is only slightly below the previous record low, set in 2007, but with weeks still to go in the summer melting season, it is clear that the record will be beaten by a wide margin.

The previous record low came in September 2007 at 4.17 million square kilometers (1.61 million square miles).

According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the monthly average June 2010 ice extent was 10.87 million square kilometers, 1.29 million square kilometers below climatology (1979 - 2000) and 190,000 square kilometers below the previous record low for the month of 11.06 million square kilometers set in 2006.

2012 shattered the previous record low sea ice extent; hence «regression towards the mean'told us that 2013 would likely have a higher minimum extent,» wrote Dana Nuccitelli.

By May, the melt season was two to four weeks ahead of schedule and far below the previous record low for the month.

2012 values are right on track with the previous record low year 2011.

This was 27,000 square miles smaller than the previous record low of 1.61 million square miles set in 2007.

The 2012 minimum was 18 percent smaller than the previous record low of 2007, a drop akin to beating the world marathon record by more than 20 minutes — an extraordinary feat.

The area of the Arctic ocean at least 15 % covered in ice is this week about 8.5 m sq kilometres --- lower than the previous record low set in 2007 --- according to satellite monitoring by the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado.

California had its driest year on record and San Francisco recorded only 86 millimetres of rain for the year, less than 20 % of average and less than half the previous record low.

«This situation is unlike anything observed in previous record low ice seasons,» said Mark Drinkwater of the European Space Agency's Oceans / Ice Unit.

That's 97,00 square kilometers (37,000 square miles) below the previous record low that occurred in 2015.

July's extent is 190,000 square kilometers (73,000 square miles) above the previous record low set in 2011, and 1.65 million square kilometers (637,000 square miles) below the 1981 to 2010 long - term average.

A new 250MW solar tender in Rajasthan at the Bhadla Phase IV solar park this month was won at a record low Rs2.62 / kWh, 12 percent below the previous record low tariff awarded across 750MW of solar just three months ago at Rs2.97 / kWh.»

Average sea ice extent for July 2011 was 3.06 million square miles, 81,000 square miles lower than the previous record low, set in July 2007.

Rate of summer ice melt smashes two previous record lows and prompts warnings of accelerated climate change

The previous record low was in 2005 when the Arctic area covered by sea ice was just 4 million sq km.

Meanwhile, Arctic sea ice extent shattered the previous record low and the Greenland ice sheet saw the greatest melt in recorded history.

What's more is that the new figures suggest a trend of decreasing forest loss; the previous record low was seen the year before.

According to NSIDC, July 2011 set a new record low during the satellite data record for the month, ending up 210,000 square kilometers below the previous record low set in July 2007 (Figure 2).

This was 23 % less than the previous record low of 5.6 m sq kilometres in 2005, and 39 % below the 1979 - 2000 average.