Sentences with phrase «significant warm spell»
There are still significant warm spells in the High Arctic lately, last week over Cornwallis +4.8 C was measured along with freezing rain on the ground at -2 C, a plane flying over Lancaster Sound measured +10 C..
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Two examples of climate extremes include periods of intense warm or cool temperatures and significant wet or dry spells across seasons.
The paper also finds that several significant past climate fluctuations — including a warm spell that peaked around 1100 A.D. called the medieval warm period and the so - called little ice age from the 1400s through the 1700s — were global in scope.