Sentences with phrase «severe summer heat waves»

Meanwhile, more - severe summer heat waves — classified as five - sigma events — will go from being essentially absent in the present day to covering around three per cent of the global land surface by 2040.

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Some of the more severe events that recently captured the U.S. public's attention included the Texas / Oklahoma heat wave and drought of the summer 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.

«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?

Since the 1970s, unusually hot summer temperatures have become more common in the United States, and heat waves have become more frequent — although the most severe heat waves in U.S. history remain those that occurred during the «Dust Bowl» in the 1930s.

Consequently, Texas and surrounding areas (especially parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma) suffered severe drought, and subsequently heat waves and wild fires in the northern spring and summer 2011.