Sentences with phrase «record warm temperatures»

Those instruments tracked record warm temperatures for eight months of the year.

Ice storms are occurring even in coastal zones with oceans that are at record warm temperatures.

World Resources Institute explains that recent record warm temperatures, combined with low precipitation have combined to make the situation even worse than either factor alone:

My second article, shortly thereafter, exposed that a succession of record warm temperatures in recent years may be based on contaminated satellite readings.

«Large portions of the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and parts of the Atlantic Ocean had record warm temperatures,» the agency added.

Will the «coldest on record» Superbowl temperatures (conditions created by the climate engineers) help to cover up the record warm temperatures at the North Pole (which are expected to be as much as 40 degrees higher than those at the game)?

The record warm temperatures experienced over the past three years are not due to any adjustments made to the underlying temperature records.

While California continues to go up in flames, regions of the Canadian Arctic and Greenland have recently been basking in record warm temperatures nearly 60 degrees above normal.

Some shift in Americans» global warming views might have been expected this year, given the near - record warm temperatures experienced this winter across much of the country — Gallup finds 79 % of Americans reporting that the weather in their area was warmer than usual, though less than half of these attributed this to global warming.

So record warm temperatures means record amounts of moisture.»

Ironically, if the lakes enter the fall with record warm temperatures, it could herald an above - average season for lake effect snow, which occurs when cold, dry air blows across large expanses of comparatively milder waters.

Not exact matches

According to a big chunk of ocean surface temperature recorded by boat, the oceans were not warming nearly as quickly as the rest of the planet.

During the first third of the year, from January through April, the average temperature for the contiguous United States was 4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th - century average, making this period the second warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Thirty - two additional states, including Alaska, had annual temperatures that ranked among the 10 warmest on record.

As for temperatures in 2017, the U.S. sweltered through its 3rd - warmest year on record, trailing only 2012 and 2016, NOAA said.

Florida's average temperature from January through April 2017 was the warmest during that period on record.

The decade we've just come through was the warmest on record in human history: it saw record incidence of floods and drought (both of which you'd expect with higher temperatures).

But when tree rings, pollen counts in polar ice, and temperature records from multiple places around the world all point in the same direction, we become increasingly confident that global warming is a reality.

The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average of 54.3 degrees F. «We had our fourth warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.

In addition to being the warmest place in the United States in January, it is also the city with the highest record low in the United States with an all - time low temperature of 56 °F (13 °C).

El Niño Now Among Strongest in Modern History; Unusually Warm and Unsettled Conditions Persist in California: Not only is 2015 California's warmest year on record to date (beating the previous record set all the way back in 2014), but the details of the persistently elevated temperatures have been particularly oppressive...

The blast of arctic air that engulfed portions of the East Coast broke more cold temperature records in several cities — although a warm - up is coming today.

There can be no doubt that the planet is warming; 2016 was the fifth time in the 21st century a new record high annual temperature has been set (along with 2005, 2010, 2014, and 2015) and also marks the 40th consecutive year (since 1977) that the annual temperature has been above the 20th century average.

Unseasonably warm temperatures hit the Big Apple today after an early - morning downpour — and could break a record last set when Ulysses S. Grant was in the White House.

On Tuesday, the area set a record for the warmest low temperature.

Temperatures will probably keep smashing records as carbon dioxide, methane and other gases continue warming the planet.

For a start, observational records are now roughly five years longer, and the global temperature increase over this period has been largely consistent with IPCC projections of greenhouse gas — driven warming made in previous reports dating back to 1990.

Derham could not have known, but his hobby would one day mark the beginning of something monumental: the Central England temperature record, the earliest thermometer readings now included in the massive datasets that track global warming.

The temperature records showed a warming spike after the 1970s, and the ice records documented that river ice is breaking up about nine days earlier now than last century.

The most important of these was an apparent mismatch between the instrumental surface temperature record (which showed significant warming over recent decades, consistent with a human impact) and the balloon and satellite atmospheric records (which showed little of the expected warming).

The finding surprised the University of Arizona - led research team, because the sparse instrumental records for sea surface temperature for that part of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean did not show warming.

The June temperatures meant that the first half of 2012 was one of the warmest on record, and contributed to the warmest 12 - month period in the United States since records began in 1895.

For more than 10 weeks beginning in January, sea temperatures were between 2 °C and 4 °C warmer than usual along a 2000 - kilometre stretch of coast — the area's most extreme warming event since records began.

Studies of historical records in India suggest that reduced monsoon rainfall in central India has occurred when the sea surface temperatures in specific regions of the Pacific Ocean were warmer than normal.

And there remains little doubt that average temperatures are getting warmer at ground level; data from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reveals that the last decade was the warmest since record - keeping began.

Even if those and other nations» promises under the Paris agreement are kept, global temperatures may yet soar well above 2 °C (3.6 °F) compared with pre-industrial times — roughly twice the amount of warming recorded so far.

Because some global temperature records only begin in 1880, the period 1880 to 1899 is the easiest «pre-industrial» baseline for measuring warming.

Preliminary NASA data suggests that June 2014 will come in as the third warmest June on record, while the JMA ranks it as the warmest in their temperature records.

The statewide average temperature for the first six months of 2014 was 1.1 degree F warmer than it has been for the past 120 years of records

On the Great Barrier Reef, the bleaching coincided with the warmest sea temperatures ever recorded.

«These two extinction pulses coincide with the two warming spikes we identified in our new temperature record, which each line up with one of the two «causal events.»»

The past 12 months have been the warmest in Australia's recorded history, where average temperature has warmed by 1.6 - degrees F since 1910

The Boulder blaze was just the latest wildfire to strike Colorado, which is facing record high temperatures after a warm winter that left little snowpack to moisten soil.

«Previous studies have shown a correlation between temperature and insect damage diversity in the fossil record, possibly caused by evolutionary radiations or range shifts in response to a warmer climate,» said Donovan.

With an El Niño expected to develop late this summer or in the fall, there is a chance that 2014 could move into the spot as the warmest year on record, though the climate phenomenon's effects are generally most pronounced in the colder months, so the boost it gives to global temperatures could be reserved for 2015.

«Researchers reveal when global warming first appeared: When global warming became clearly evident in the temperature record.»

This meant smaller shifts in the temperature record due to global warming were more easily seen.

The average temperature for the world in 2015 was record warm in all four major datasets, which are run independently by different U.S. and international agencies.

The researchers found that due to warm spring temperatures on Kodiak, the berries were developing fruit weeks earlier, at the same time as the peak of the salmon migration; 2014 was one of the warmest years on the island since record - keeping began 60 years ago.

Following a record warm July, Norway had an August temperature that was 1.8 °F (1.0 °C) higher than the 1961 - 1990 long - term average for the country.