Sentences with phrase «recent weather records»

Not exact matches

«In recent months, notwithstanding the impact of severe weather events such as Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, flight completion and on - time arrival rates remained high, while reports of mishandled baggage and involuntary denied boardings plunged to their lowest ever recorded.

It seems that strange weather events — such as the recent record cold and ice in Atlanta that crippled the city's roadways — are occurring more frequently.

But even without record - breaking heat, recent years have seen food riots from Bangladesh to Haiti as world agriculture was pushed to the breaking point by a combination of greater demand for food, biofuels and poor weather.

Climatologist John Christy of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, emphasized that it was not scientifically defensible to tie the recent droughts or specific extreme weather events to climate change, and highlighted the limitations of historical temperature records.

Yet how can a barely discernible, one - degree increase in the recorded global mean temperature since the late 19th century possibly gain public acceptance as the source of recent weather catastrophes?

A recent report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather - related events.

Recent years have marked the warmest winters and overall weather ever recorded in the continental United States1.

«Can the persistent weather conditions associated with recent severe events such as the snowy winters of 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 in the eastern U.S. and Europe, the historic drought and heat - wave in Texas during summer 2011, or record - breaking rains in the northeast U.S. of summer 2011 be attributed to enhanced high - latitude warming?

While this methodology doesn't eliminate your point that the trends from different periods in the observed record (or from different observed datasets) fall at various locations within our model - derived 95 % confidence range (clearly they do), it does provide justification for using the most recent data to show that sometimes (including currently), the observed trends (which obviously contain natural variability, or, weather noise) push the envelop of model trends (which also contain weather noise).

In fact, it is possible to have some frost rings without any evidence of explosive volcanism, presumably occurring due to extremes in local weather, but, as shown above, they do seem to record large volcanic eruptions in recent times very well indeed.

In Matt's recent post on hot weather he reported that June Record High Temperatures Beat Record Lows 11 - to - 1 in US.

But at a hearing at the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on January 23 in which much of the discussion was centered around how power reliability fared during the recent record - breaking cold weather event in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, a number of key stakeholders noted that nuclear was as vital as other baseload plants in maintaining reliability.

That's easy to do with the year 1300, but lately there's been some evidence to suggest that, because the actual climate has spent the entire 21st century refusing to follow the alarmist models and broil the planet, NOAA and NASA have had to resort to cooling the recent past - ie, not the pre-thermometer millennium - old past but the weather - station recorded - temperature living - memory past.

At this stage, you are probably thinking ``... but, it's not just the weather record analysis — there's loads of other evidence for global warming — the Arctic sea ice is melting, the oceans are heating up, sea levels are rising, etc.» You're right — there is plenty of evidence that there has been some global warming in recent decades.

The recent devastation of record - breaking hurricanes like Harvey, Irma, and Maria have shone a spotlight on severe weather and how climate change is making the threat worse.

The author presents volumes of data from actual weather station records that show average temperatures declining over recent decades in many places.

Not for the first time in recent years, Europe has descended into a deep freeze while the Arctic experiences record high temperatures, leaving scientists to ponder the role global warming may play in turning winter weather...

Jonathan Overpeck, a climate scientist at the University of Michigan, claimed that the recent record - cold weather is not only happening despite global warming, but, indeed, «at least in part» because of it.

Much ado has been made recently in the media and the blogosphere of recent extreme weather events around the world: the flooding in Tennessee and Pakistan, the Moscow heat waves, record drought in the Amazon, and yet more flooding in Queensland and Brazil.

Dr. Easterbrook comment: «A weather condition brought about by recent shift in the jet stream that produced record - breaking cold in the US.»

Macca interviewed people this morning about recent cold weather on» OZ all over» and a tanker driver talked about some inland Qld temps last week being the coldest on record.

Extreme weather events in recent years have continued to cause record damages that disrupt state economies and require years for recovery.

The comment letter states «Extreme weather events in recent years have continued to cause record damages that disrupt state economies and require years for recovery» and uses the very large damage estimate as an example.

It is not the recent anomaly we have been experiencing in the winter weather with record high temperatures in the northeastern U.S. or the significant snowfalls in the Europe.

Yet how can a barely discernible, one - degree increase in the recorded global mean temperature since the late 19th century possibly gain public acceptance as the source of recent weather catastrophes?

See, the first thing to do is do determine what the temperature trend during the recent thermometer period (1850 — 2011) actually is, and what patterns or trends represent «data» in those trends (what the earth's temperature / climate really was during this period), and what represents random «noise» (day - to - day, year - to - random changes in the «weather» that do NOT represent «climate change»), and what represents experimental error in the plots (UHI increases in the temperatures, thermometer loss and loss of USSR data, «metadata» «M» (minus) records getting skipped that inflate winter temperatures, differences in sea records from different measuring techniques, sea records vice land records, extrapolated land records over hundreds of km, surface temperature errors from lousy stations and lousy maintenance of surface records and stations, false and malicious time - of - observation bias changes in the information.)

The United Nations weather body responsible for monitoring world temperatures has revealed that 2015 is likely to become the hottest year ever to be recorded based on recent data.

And we should anticipate even more record - smashing extreme weather than we've had in recent years, as we throw more fuel into the an already supercharged atmosphere.

The public is beginning to see the danger, too — Midwestern farmers struggling with drought, more damaging wildfires out West, and withering record summer heat across the country — while wondering about possible linkages between rapid Arctic warming and strange weather patterns, like the recent outbreak of Arctic air across much of the United States.»