Sentences with phrase «summer heat waves»
Few studies look at long - term effects or compare the harm of summer heat waves with the benefits of warmer winters.
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The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heat waves.
There are cold snaps like this one, and brutal summer heat waves, spring flooding and fall hurricanes.
It's no surprise that a sudden summer heat wave can kill the elderly; it's a serious public health hazard that will only grow as the world warms.
We're in the middle of a classic summer heat wave.
It is about large temperature increases on a regional and local level of maximum summer heat waves that are 6, 8, 10 degrees above your previous highs.
I have made many versions of it over the years, brought it to countless barbecues, and eaten it on the back porch during summer heat waves.
Deadly summer heat wave in Europe accelerates divergence between European and US public opinion.
Global warming will bring increased summer heat waves nationwide that are especially harmful to low - income and minority populations in urban areas and the elderly, according to a new report by environmental and public health groups.
My guess is this trend will spread, given that it's long been understood that, whatever happens with climate and energy policy, scientists say the world is committed to decades of warming, with more intense summer heat waves, under nearly all projections for climate change under a building blanket of greenhouse gases.
Nevertheless, recently Europe has suffered prolonged drought, including the 2003 episode associated with the severe summer heat wave (see Section 3.8.4, Box 3.6).
And since I fully expect a late summer heat wave — we always get one in September — these will earn their keep before getting shelved for the winter.
This year in particular, the season continues to waver between summer heat waves and winter cold spells.
In South Asia, a region of deep poverty where one - fifth of the world's people live, new research suggests that by the end of this century climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.
New research released yesterday links human - caused climate change to six of 12 extreme weather events from 2012, including summer heat waves in the United States and storm surges from Superstorm Sandy.
This refreshing lemonade recipe is the perfect complement to a grilled entrée, not to mention it's super-simple to whip up on a whim or in a sweltering summer heat wave.
Now you'll be wondering what to get yourself for this Eid, after the exhausting summer heat wave, you would want yourself a treat for this one.
Shot during a New York summer heat wave and garbage strike, Taxi Driver got into trouble with the MPAA for its violence.
The city is broiling in an early summer heat wave and for the third day in a row Victoria buys a salad from the Korean market around the corner and has lunch at her desk.
Related paper: Barriopedro et al. have recently shown in Science that the 2010 summer heat wave set a new record Europe - wide, breaking the previous record heat of summer 2003.
Of particular interest, for example, is the possible relationship between climate change and the incidence of summer heat waves [Meehl, G.A. and C. Tebaldi, Science, 305, 994 - 997, 2004] such as those observed in Europe during summer 2003 [see Schaer et al, Nature 427, 332-336 2004; Stott et al, Nature, 432, 610 - 614, 2004].
Among them: Rapidly warming Arctic waters could worsen summer heat waves in Europe and North America by lowering the temperature differential that drives mid-latitude circulation.
Pierrehumbert: What kind of circulation change could lock Europe into deadly summer heat waves like that of last summer?
Compared with 2015's fires and scorching summer heat waves, 2016 appeared moderate.
In 2003, a record summer heat wave left 35,000 — mainly elderly people — dead across Western Europe.
It was mid-July; we're a subtropical area (lat 25.9 N), and we were in the throws of El Cunecula (regular, but intensified summer heat wave) when Emily with hailstones came.
A weaker AMOC could also increase summer heat waves.
Instead, for the period from Jan. 1, 2000, to Sept. 30, 2009, the continental United States set 291,237 record highs and 142,420 record lows, as the country experienced unusually mild winter weather and intense summer heat waves.
Chase, T. N., K. Wolter, R. A. Pielke, Sr., and I. Rasool (2006), Was the 2003 European summer heat wave unusual in a global context?
«A great majority of producers experienced important difficulties in past years as a consequence of summer heat waves,» said Luis Rodrigues, a researcher with a European Commission panel studying acidification.
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.
Keep «Em Cool When Summer Living Is Steamy The latest summer heat wave is upon us, and it's won't be the last of the season.
Reply to comment by W. M. Connolley on; Was the 2003 European summer heat wave unusual in a global context?
However, a late - summer heat wave in recent days has pushed up demand for electricity in the midwestern and eastern United States.
End - of - summer heat waves aren't uncommon...
Earlier this summer, the Governor extended swimming hours at state park beaches and pools downstate to help New Yorkers cool off during summer heat waves.
In addition to finding that milder winters do not make up for hotter summers, the team discovered that sudden shifts in temperature — jumping from a cold winter day to a warm winter day and back again, for example — was a worse killer than summer heat waves, in either winter or summer.
When the North Atlantic Jet is in the extreme northern position, the British Isles and western Europe have a summer heat wave while southeastern Europe has heavy rains and flooding, she said.
According to AEA Technology's National Environment Technology Centre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire — which monitors air pollution for the Department of the Environment — ozone pollution peaked in the summer heat waves of 1989 and 1990.