Sentences with phrase «record heatwave»

2003 heatwave may have sped up global warming Wednesday, 21st September 2005, 17:47 UK News... LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK)- The record heatwave that scorched

While the Polar Vortex was hitting America, a record heatwave was making bats fall from trees in Australia

Janet Larsen, «Setting the Record Straight: More than 52,000 Europeans Died from Heat in Summer,» Plan B Update (Washington, DC: Earth Policy Institute, 28 July 2006); Peter Griffiths, «Record Heatwave Bakes Britain,» Reuters, 12 August 2003; Peter Talks, European Union Grain and Feed Semi-Annual 2003 (Washington, DC: USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service, 11 December 2003).

I spent a summer there in the mid 1980s, when they had a record heatwave.

Researchers showed that climate change had doubled the chances of the record heatwave Europe experienced in 2003.

At least 35,000 people died as a result of the record heatwave that scorched Europe in August 2003, says an environmental think tank.

Australia, which just had some record heatwaves so hot they had to add new colors to the weather map a year ago, is facing a similar ordeal this year.

Not exact matches

Southeast Europe should prepare for heatwaves later in May Coldest winter since 2012 has depleted European gas stores Germany is headed for record solar power generation next week as forecasters Continue Reading

Racing NSW lost millions of dollars over the weekend and insurers and farmers braced for losses after the most extreme heatwave in NSW's recorded history

In the midst of the record - breaking heatwave in Britain, the Speaker has taken drastic action.John...

This year, too, has been one of extraordinary weather, from summer deluges in the UK to a storm knocking out power to millions in the US during a record - smashing heatwave — and of course, the devastation wrought by superstorm Sandy.

It is part of a trend that saw Sydney's temperature climb to over 47 °C earlier this month — the highest recorded in the city for 79 years — and could see both it and Melbourne experiencing mega ‑ heatwaves with highs of 50 °C by 2040.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- A searing heatwave is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought - hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as Australia sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2013.

A searing heatwave is baking central and northern Australia, piling more misery on drought - hit cattle farmers who have been slaughtering livestock as Australia sweltered through the hottest year on record in 2013.

A heatwave during November 9th — 12th brought 74 new record high maximum and 16 high minimum temperature records to stations in the northern provinces of the country.

Several western cities set new all - time June temperature records, due in part to an intense heatwave the second half of the month, including Boise, Idaho where the temperature soared to 110 °F.

2017 saw record - breaking heatwaves in Chile, the Mediterranean, Southwest Asia and California, as well as continuing severe drought in East Africa and destructive floods in the Indian subcontinent, and a very active North Atlantic hurricane season.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

They calculate that in Paris, the hottest city in Europe during the heatwave in summer 2003, 506 out of 735 summer deaths recorded in the French capital were -LSB-...]

During this winter in the southern hemisphere, centuries - old heatwave records have been shattered all over Australia in the past week as cities from Hobart to Sydney have been hit by prolonged stretches of temperature far above normal.

Researchers find strong climate signal behind the heatwaves and record average temperatures that beset Australia's eastern states this summer

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.

On Monday, the area reported a record - breaking heatwave in Long Beach, Santa Ana and Newport Beach, among other locations.

Los Angeles» weather - related woes aren't finished.On Monday, the area reported a record - breaking heatwave in Long Beach, Santa Ana and Newport Beach,... Read More

When heatwaves and record temperatures are found all across North America, Belize enjoys lovely weather in August with daytime highs of just 86F (30C) and nighttime lows at a perfect 78F (26C).

Phoenix is just concluded a heatwave setting records for consecutive days above 110F, perhaps more importantly nights not falling below 90F.

«The world experienced a series of record - breaking weather events in early 2007, from flooding in Asia to heatwaves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday.

«The current heatwave — in terms of its duration, its intensity and its extent — is now unprecedented in our records,» the Bureau of Meteorology's manager of climate monitoring and prediction, David Jones, said.

While 28 C is a substantial heatwave for Moscow (Average July high: 23.2 C), it is hardly comparable to the 38.2 C July maximum recorded in the most recent heatwave.

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More than 20,000 people died after a record - breaking heatwave left Europe sweltering in August 2003.

Recent record hot summers and significant heatwaves were also made much more likely by humans» effect on the climate.

AS Australians sweltered through a record - breaking summer heatwave this week, one of the world's leading scientific bodies revised down its five - year projection for the world's average temperature.

On top of another record hot year globally, and as heatwaves become more frequent and intense, our cities are making us even hotter.

From this mass of information they found 783 lethal heatwaves in 164 cities across 36 countries, with most cases recorded in developed countries at mid-latitudes since 1980: in cities such as New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, London, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney and São Paulo.

I was in Grand Rapids, MI in August, 2006 when they shattered the all - time high temperature record by 5 degrees and posted 109 degrees for two straight days, I was in Chicago during that same heatwave when it was still 101 at Midnight and the fire department was having to evacuate elderly high rises after a major power failure, and I was here in Denver when we set an all - time record high twice in 3 days in June, 2012 with a 106 followed by a 108 reading, which was 5 degrees hotter than the previous record high before 2012 too.

During a scorching, record - breaking heatwave earlier this year, the now Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss ridiculed the notion that heat waves and bushfires could be linked to human - caused climate change.

In April 2016, a heatwave set national temperature records for Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

GENEVA (Reuters)- The world experienced a series of record - breaking weather events in early 2007, from flooding in Asia to heatwaves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday.

Global warming of 2 ℃, the higher of the two Paris targets, would see current record - breaking temperatures become the norm in the future, potentially bringing heatwaves to both land and sea.

-- then what explanation (scientific if possible) can be given for the fact that, last year alone, parts of the USA had the highest surface temperatures on record, Australia had to rewrite their own temperature gauge because it was recording temperatures which went, for the first time in recorded history, off the scale they were so high and in the UK and Europe we experienced one of the longest heatwaves in decades?

(06/24/2013) After a colder - than - average spring, Alaska is suffering a sudden and record - breaking heatwave.

Based on temperature records from 1864 to 2002, the odds of such a heatwave occurring are about 1 in 10 million.4 An event like the 2003 heatwave becomes much more likely after factoring in the observed warming of 2 °F over Europe and increased weather variability.5 In addition, comparing computer models of climate with and without human contribution shows that human influence has roughly quadrupled the odds of a European summer as hot as or hotter than the summer of 2003.6

Professor Will Steffen from the Climate Council Of Australia said the «abnormal April» records highlights the impact climate change is having across the country, driving more severe and more frequent heatwave events that are lasting longer than ever before.

Andrew Bolt on Jan 30th on about how the heatwave in Victoria hasn't broken any records, and thus concludes climate scientists and Labor pollies have got it all wrong... what is Bolt thinking?

That was the reaction from scientist after scientist to a new report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which documented record - breaking droughts, heatwaves, rainfall, melting of sea ice and a host of tangible signs observed in 2016 that the Earth's climate has changed.

Scientists warn that global warming could greatly increase the likelihood of droughts, floods and heatwaves reaching record levels of frequency and intensity.

Taking very small events out of the equation, 750 relevant loss events [in 2016] such as earthquakes, storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves were recorded in the Munich Re NatCatSERVICE database.

«This includes record numbers and record intensity of hurricanes and typhoons, record widespread heavy rains and flooding — think Houston, Louisiana, the Carolinas (Hurricane Matthew) and now California — record drought, heatwaves and wild fires, and increasing inundations in coastal regions from rising sea level.»

The heatwave that engulfed southeastern Australia at the end of last week has seen heat records continue to tumble like Jenga blocks