Sentences with phrase «spring warming periods»

And they note that freezing to death could be a danger if early - spring warming periods, followed by cold snaps, become common — something they observed in the spring of 2012.

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Yes, it was a warm and sunny spring day, of the kind that tends to persuade you that, after a period of cold and discomfort, life is about to start looking up again.
Warmer spring temperatures advance the time of bud break, and therefore, the period that insects are most abundant.
Effectively, a healthy body (that is in tune with its long - term cycles of activity) relates to the year as it does to training: there is a period of warm - up (spring), exercise (summer), cool - down (fall), and recovery (winter).
As for colors, the spring - summer 2017 season, on par with bright shades is the achromatic range, a bit unexpected for the warm period.
During lunch period on a warm late spring day, she decided she was too pale and headed out to the athletic field to catch some rays at lunch.
As the climate changes, and it becomes warmer for longer periods each year, there's more opportunity for cats and dogs to suffer from heat exhaustion or heatstroke in cars, even on fall and spring days.
Spring is warm and largely dry whilst summer can be hot and humid following a four - week period of rain which usually begins in June.
These assumed that the largest decreases in rainfall would be in winter and spring (decreases of 5 % and 11 % between 1990 and 2030 on the low and high global warming scenarios respectively), but rainfall was fractionally HIGHER in winter / spring in the more recent period (1995 - 2006) than in the previous 11 - year period.
In summer and autumn the CSIRO projections were for smaller decreases in rainfall than in winter and spring, but the observed change was a substantial decrease: in fact, as large a decrease between the successive 11 - year periods as CSIRO projected on the high global warming scenario over the 40 - year period from 1990 to 2030.
Records have been broken monthly in the continental United States, with the warmest spring and 12 - month period experienced this year and severe fires and drought affecting large swaths of the country.; xNLx;; xNLx; The World Resources Institute put together a timeline of extreme climate and weather events in 2012.
Sudden warmings tend to occur during the early and middle parts of the winter and the transition period from winter to spring.
They wrote that Dyck, Soon and their collaborators ignored data from the previous decade that showed that as the climate warmed, the sea ice is melting earlier each spring, sending polar bears ashore for longer periods of time in progressively poorer condition.
From 2000 to the end of El Nino conditions in the spring of 2010, despite a lot of La Nina / La Nina leaning conditions during that period, there was fairly pronounced warming — red trend line.
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
The other, was due to a period of Meridional flow (the dreaded «polar vortex») resulting in a very early spring warming that caused the tree to start leafing, followed by leaf destroying «black» frosts.
However, because severe conditions can manifest at both multiannual and subannual timescales, we also analyze the probability of occurrence of co-occurring warm and dry conditions for multiannual periods, for all possible 12 - mo periods, and for the winter (DJF), spring (March — April — May), summer (June — July — August), and autumn (September — October — November) seasons.
Regionally, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, and Tasmania had a top 10 warm September — November period, with Tasmania having its highest spring temperature on record.
As I might have said before, in IPPC - speak it would be «Although we can not give significance to such a short period of time (14 years), this lack of warming is exactly what we would expect if there were to be a 30 year hiatus» I look forward to next spring / early summer when the first two temperature records cross the 15 year mark of slight cooling.
• Hardy gerbera flower from late spring to late summer in warm, sunny conditions — ideally around 6 hours a day in the flowering period, making them better suited to southern climates.
As our traditional hibernation period comes to its end, it's time to spring clean and get the house ready for warmer seasons.
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