Sentences with phrase «south wind pattern»

Global temperatures were reduced, but not uniformly because an extreme meridional north / south wind pattern developed.

Not exact matches

Since the early 2000s the Kona side has seen significant amounts of vog from Puʻu ʻŌʻō and Kīlauea via wind patterns up the South Kona Coast around Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea.

«Usually these dust storms are created somewhere between Syria and Iraq and are transported south, but during this period the wind pattern was going east to west,» Bou - Zeid said.

The readings revealed a shift in the Antarctic Oscillation (AAO), the seesawing pattern of pressure that controls the winds around the South Pole: in recent years, it seems, the AAO has been spending more time in its positive, strong - wind phase.

The pattern on the right shows extreme patterns of wind speeds going north and south, while the normal pattern on the left shows moderate speed winds in both the north and south directions.

Fraser Island has been formed over hundreds of thousands of years as winds, waves and ocean currents have carried sands from the far south - east of Australia, and from as far away as Antarctica (but before Australian and Antarctica split from each other), out to the continental shelf, and in towards the land again in a zigzag pattern, to form a string of sand islands along the Queensland coast.

The same weather pattern that brings the marine layer stratus and afternoon sea breeze to the Los Angeles Basin brings gusty winds to Palmdale, especially near the foothills on the south side.

Thursday 28th December Bright crisp morning wind change with the South - East breeze showing signs of influence, hopefully a weather pattern to dry Noticeable current bushing into the bay with the first signs of the predicted... [Read more...]

This new wind pattern transports warmer air into the Arctic and pushes Arctic air farther south, and may influence the likelihood of persistent weather conditions in the mid-latitudes.

The wind patterns in the Arctic during January and February were also unfavorable to ice growth because they brought warm air from the south and prevented expansion of the ice cover.

In the past, a high difference in temperature from north to south helped drive a prevailing wind pattern called the Jet Stream which kept weather systems moving across the Northern Hemisphere.

This weather pattern tends to draw winds in from the south and lead to sea ice compaction into a smaller mass as well as melt along the fringes.

We discussed the climatic reasons for the decline, which were very cold decades in northeastern North America and changes in wind patterns pushing cold dense waters of the Labrador Current much further south into the cod fishing grounds of the Grand Banks.

We hope this trend continues for wind in the South, with proposals for new long - distance transmission lines like the proposed Plains and Eastern Clean Line project (shown in image to the right) and Pattern's Southern Cross Line, Gulf Power will have the opportunity to connect Florida customers with even more low - cost wind power from the midwest and Texas.

Instead, changes in the South Pole's ozone hole from year - to - year are likely the result of natural variations in wind patterns, researchers said here Wednesday (Dec. 11) in a press conference at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

This has given rise to a pattern of winds bringing in warm air from the south over the coastal seas of eastern Siberia, fostering strong melt and tending to push ice from the coast into the central Arctic Ocean.

The most common would be the sorts of winds that accompany the passage of a cold front, and the ones which arise from having a hemispherical pattern change, typically featuring a very cold high to one's north and a cold low to one's south.

The process begins when strong convective activity over equatorial East Asia and subsiding cool air off South America's west coast creates a wind pattern which pushes Pacific water westward and piles it up in the western Pacific.

Since then, the summer winds were found to blow more consistently from the south, through the Bering Strait, across the North Pole, and out toward the Atlantic Ocean relative to the mean pattern in previous decades.

But every once in a while, the winds start flowing north to south, creating a pattern called «amplified flow.»