Sentences with phrase «relatively warm winter»

Another avenue for cold damage, even in a relatively warm winter, is when there is an extended warm period in late winter or early spring causing premature leaf - out or bloom, followed by a damaging frost event, as occurred throughout the Northeast in 200770 and again in 2012 when apple, grape, cherry, and other fruit crops were hard hit.71

2003/2004 was a relatively warm winter in the Arctic stratosphere and significant loss of ozone did not occurr.

It's been a relatively warm winter so far — thankfully — so, I'm ready to bring out these colors and patterns now.

Despite the relatively warm winter we've been having, I was really unlucky about my photo shoot times.

When the PDO is in a positive (warm) phase, a low - pressure center called the Aleutian Low hovers over the state and relatively warm winter winds blow into Alaska from the southwest, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

According to the EIA, «Heating degree days in 2016 were the second fewest of any year since at least 1949, consistent with relatively warmer winter months.»

Not exact matches

«We still don't believe the virus will become widespread in Texas, but there could be more cases, so people need to protect themselves from mosquito bites, especially in parts of the state that stay relatively warm in the fall and winter.»

Winter is almost over and one can smell the flavors of Spring at your doors with every relatively warmer morning.

America's warmest winter in 12 years has helped the U.S. job market, but most economists see weather as a relatively minor factor in explaining recent strides in employment.

McLaren Vale's climate is Mediterranean and characterised by warm summers, moderate winters, winter - dominated rainfall, low relative humidity and relatively high evaporation.

After spending a relatively leisurely winter and early spring luxuriating in warm tropical climates, they migrate north for a brief but highly eventful summer in North America, during which they must complete three energetically demanding and time - consuming tasks: (1) they must build nests, lay eggs, and provide for their offspring until the young reach independence, (2) they must completely replace all the feathers in their plumage as part of the annual molt, and (3) they must prepare for the fall southward migration by eating prodigiously and storing the body fat that will fuel their long - distance flights.

Not surprisingly, O'Gorman found that under relatively high warming scenarios, low - elevation regions with winter temperatures initially just below freezing experienced about a 65 percent reduction in average winter snowfall.

My thought is that the UK's temperate climate is primarily due to SWly prevailing winds blowing from the relatively warm ocean, as opposed to places on the eastern side of a large continent which will frequently receive cold polar continental airmasses in winter, because the mid-latitude westerlies will be blowing from a cold continental interior.

It was a relatively inexpensive winter for heating in central North America, with mild temperatures reducing the need to warm our houses, but the mild, fluctuating temperatures will cause butterflies to suffer severe energy shortages this spring.

If winter in your area is relatively warm compared to us here in Europe, then you can go leggy with flat lace up boots by teaming them with a long cardigan and denim shorts.

I honestly thought we were getting off pretty easy this winter — February actually turned out to be relatively warm overall with barely any...

The Netherlands» temperate maritime climate isn't given to extremes of temperature; summers are warm and winters are mild and whilst rainfall is relatively evenly spread throughout the year it is most common in late summer during July and August.

SMany of the regions with Mediterranean climates have relatively mild winters and very warm summers.

The waters around Magnetic Island are warm (winter average 23C - summer average 28C) and relatively shallow; perfect for novices and relaxed pleasurable diving.

(With the ocean cloaked mainly in relatively thin floes, formed over a single winter, the chances rise each summer of a big melt - off under the 24 - hour sun and influxes of warmer seawater.)

It is the collision of cold Arctic air with relatively warm unfrozen lake water in early winter that causes lake effect snows in the first place.

East Coast winter storms, known as «nor» easters» because of the unusual northeasterly direction of the winds as the storm spirals in from the south, are unusual in that they derive their energy not just from large contrasts in temperature that drive most extratropical storm systems, but also from the energy released when water evaporates from the (relatively warm) ocean surface into the atmosphere.

It is more efficient in the winter to draw heat from the relatively warm ground than from the atmosphere where the air temperature is much colder, and in summer transfer waste heat to the relatively cool ground than to hotter air.

Still, he says it'll be a relatively mild winter, compared with La Nina winters of years past, because the climate overall is warmer now.

In order to properly understand, what is going on in the Arctic ocean, we first must understand the oceanic oscillation and the currents in this vast ocean, it is interesting to note, Sweden is recalling its ice breaker from the USA Antarctic survey, and there is concern in the sea of Okhotsk — where, for the last couple of years breaking the winter sea ice has been a major problem, colder here, relatively «warmer» there etc..

The majority of the winter warming is associated with changes in sea ice cover even though the sea ice declines at this time of the year are relatively small.

[25] In the winter the relatively warm ocean water exerts a moderating influence, even when covered by ice.

For the northeast, that means relatively little snow, compared to what they usually get, and a warmer, milder winter.

«Some reduction in the risk of death related to extreme cold is expected... the reduction in deaths as a result of relatively milder winters attributable to global warming will be substantially less than the increase in deaths due to summertime heat extremes.»

Note the cold anomalies in north European seas and all around the USA in their winter 2010 - 11, some of which are relatively colder than the Perth anomalies are warm.

You might be wondering how the planet could be warming if this past winter has been relatively cool.

One example I like was a relatively recent explanation of why the Earth was warming and why the temperatures in winter were lower than average; the reason was apparently that an ocean warmer than the atmosphere above was taking heat out of the atmosphere resulting in cooler winter temperatures.

(i) The observation that the earlier SSTs, expressed as anomalies from recent averages, are not only too cold relative to NMATs similarly expressed (Barnett, 1984), but also, outside the tropics, show enhanced annual cycles, presumably because more heat is lost from uninsulated buckets in winter when stronger, colder winds blow over relatively warm water (Wright, 1986; Bottomley et al., 1990);

For us that means relatively little snow compared to what we usually get and a warmer, milder winter.

However, the relatively small warming in southern South America is more extensive in southern winter.

For instance, the relatively snowless and mild winter in the U.S. of 2011 - 12 resulted from an inversion of the jet stream; its «U» course though the North America flipped upside down, trapping warm air over much of the central and eastern U.S.

As a scientist, I know that global warming is real, but as a person, I want to get into my car and have as much power as possible, and I want to heat my house toasty warm in winter, and I want to cool it in summer, using fossil fuels because they are relatively cheap and wonderfully convenient.

«Recent research, however, suggests that there is a possibility that this gradual global warming could lead to a relatively abrupt slowing of the ocean's thermohaline conveyor, which could lead to harsher winter weather conditions, sharply reduced soil moisture, and more intense winds in certain regions that currently provide a significant fraction of the world's food production.

From about 1999 to 2003, the outbreak was primarily confined to Canada's Vancouver Island, but during 2004 to 2009, instances of the disease spread to the mainland coast of British Columbia, and then southward to coastal Washington and Oregon — all locations with a relatively similar climate of wet, mild winters... If global warming were to blame, the disease ought to be moving northward into regions where it would have otherwise been too cold in years past.

This geothermal system taps into water that is a relatively stable 55 * F and transfers that heat to warm the building in the winter and cool it in the summer.»

The exception is the higher latitudes, where land areas warm relatively faster in boreal summer in high - end models, but sea ice areas show varying differences in boreal winter.

However, sometimes the three cycles combine to make the Northern Hemisphere winter relatively warm, and the Northern Hemisphere summer relatively cool.

In the meantime, Iceland and Greenland have enjoyed relatively mild weather, so we can not simply conclude that the northern hemisphere winter is cold and that this therefore puts in doubt the generally - accepted global warming trend.

In the Rockies and along the west coast, however, the relationship is weak, and some stations even exhibit the opposite relationship, i.e., a relatively warm Arctic favors milder winter weather.