Sentences with phrase «record summer heat wave»
In 2003, a record summer heat wave left 35,000 — mainly elderly people — dead across Western Europe.
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A record heat wave this summer has sent many people indoors to avoid...
Heat waves like the one that hit Russia in summer 2010, the strongest on record in recent decades, will occur as often as every two years in southern Europe, North and South America, Africa and Indonesia.
Last summer's record heat wave in Russia sparked forest fires that raged for months and ultimately caused more than 55,000 deaths.
Australia has suffered through two back - to - back sweltering summers, with a record - setting heat wave sweeping across the country at the end of 2013 and into 2014.
WRI's data only extended to 2013, but last summer, millions more acres of forest burned in northern Canada amid a record - breaking heat wave (ClimateWire, July 16, 2014).
In the summer of 2016, temperatures in Phalodi, an old caravan town on a dry plain in northwestern India, reached a blistering 51 °C — a record high during a heat wave that claimed more than 1600 lives across the country.
The heat waves that scorched much of the U.S. in 2012 — the hottest year on record in the continental U.S. — and the sun kinks they created caused enough derailments that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) issued a special safety advisory that summer warning railroads that they should be sure to inspect buckling - prone sections of track.
The record - breaking heat wave over western and central Europe in the summer of 2003 is an example of an exceptional recent extreme.
2010 is on track to be the hottest year on record, and the northern hemisphere's summer has seen extreme weather and record - breaking heat waves on a global scale.
Heat records tumbled across the country this spring and summer as heat waves and warmer - than - normal temperatures blistered much of the United StaHeat records tumbled across the country this spring and summer as heat waves and warmer - than - normal temperatures blistered much of the United Staheat waves and warmer - than - normal temperatures blistered much of the United States.
While heat waves are a regular part of summer weather, the steady warming of the planet means those heat waves are getting ever hotter, making record heat more and more likely
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Last year's scorching summer and record heat wave in Australia were attributed in part to an increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases from to human activities.
«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?
(05/08/2013) Weather patterns around the globe are getting weirder and weirder: heat waves and record snow storms in Spring, blasts of Arctic air followed by sudden summer, record deluges and then drought.
The record - breaking heat wave over western and central Europe in the summer of 2003 is an example of an exceptional recent extreme.
With oppressive heat waves, devastating droughts, ravaging wildfires, and hard - hitting rainstorms, the summer of 2012 has been one for the record books.
Instead, for the period from Jan. 1, 2000, to Sept. 30, 2009, the continental United States set 291,237 record highs and 142,420 record lows, as the country experienced unusually mild winter weather and intense summer heat waves.
In 2004, a paper published in Nature showed that climate change had at least doubled the risk of the record - breaking 2003 European summer heat wave that is believed to have killed more than 70,000 people.
Even as Europeans adapt to hotter summers, rising numbers of heat - related deaths are likely.33, 34 The 2003 heat wave shows that even high - income countries such as the Netherlands are not currently positioned to cope with extreme weather19 — a troubling prospect, as research suggests that by as early as the 2040s, if we continue on the current high emissions path, about half the summers in southern Europe are likely to be as warm as the record - breaking heat wave of 2003.26,35
«Record high ocean temperatures were experienced along the Western Australian coast during the austral summer of 2010/2011... This heat wave was an unprecedented thermal event in Western Australian waters, superimposed on an underlying long - term temperature rise.»
In the summer of 2016, temperatures in Phalodi, an old caravan town on a dry plain in northwestern India, reached a blistering 51 °C — a record high during a heat wave that claimed more than 1600 lives across the country.
The drought, heat wave and associated record wildfires that hit Texas and the Southern plains in the summer of 2011 cost $ 12 billion.14
There has been a remarkable run of record - shattering heat waves in recent years, from the Russian heat wave of 2010 that set forests ablaze to the historic heat wave in Texas in 2011 and the «Summer in March» in the U.S. Midwest in 2012.
Weather patterns around the globe are getting weirder and weirder: heat waves and record snow storms in Spring, blasts of Arctic air followed by sudden summer, record deluges and then...
That summer, she said, the continent suffered through a massive heat wave marked by record temperatures that led to many deaths.
For instance, the summer of 2002 in Europe brought widespread floods but was followed a year later in 2003 by record - breaking heat waves and drought.
Arctic summers ice - free by 2013 predict scientists European heat waves kill 35, — the UK's warmest year on record Rising sea levels threaten Pacific.
By comparing the recent shift toward extreme high summer temperatures with that data, he said his group was able to demonstrate that the record - breaking 2011 Texas heat wave wouldn't have occurred without global warming.