Sentences with phrase «summer heat waves like»

Pierrehumbert: What kind of circulation change could lock Europe into deadly summer heat waves like that of last summer?

Not exact matches

First, Maine is part of the New England grid, which like almost all major grids in the United States has its highest annual peak demand during heat waves in the summer.

Because now we're in the middle of another mini heat wave and it feels like the middle of summer again.

I imagined I could see the pain and grief rising from him like heat waves off asphalt on a summer day.

Heat waves like the one that hit Russia in summer 2010, the strongest on record in recent decades, will occur as often as every two years in southern Europe, North and South America, Africa and Indonesia.

By the end of the century, if we continue on our current path, we could see heat waves like the one in Chicago in 1995 occurring three times every summer.

The news, announced Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), may come as no surprise for those who experienced summer - like heat waves in Southern California or the often spring - like weather in the Northeast.

Spring has always been my favorite season (whether in NY or LA) because it starts warming up so I can wear all of my favorite dresses, skirts + sandals while also not sweating in a heat wave like I do over the summer haha!

Although in LA it always feels like summer (especially now doing this crazy heat wave — it was legit 100 degrees yesterday #crazyiknow) now it is time to start embracing color + show off my favorite summer trends!

Well that's like a heat wave to me — I'm so excited to visit in a few weeks, but I've got ta dig out some summer wear kidding....

Unless we make deep and swift cuts in our heat - trapping emissions, 26 Europe could experience a heat wave similar to the one in 2003 every other year by the end of this century.23 A summer like that of 2003 would be considered ordinary4 — or even cool.25 Summers in central Europe are expected to feel like those in southern European today.27

In recent years, New Yorkers, like people all over the world, have faced the realities of human - made climate change: extreme storms, rising sea levels, summer heat waves, massive winter nor'easter s, and a $ 20 billion plan to reduce future flooding.

According to Media Matters, during the massive heat waves that swept the continent this past summer, news outlets like ABC, Fox News, and CNN barely mentioned the role of climate change in their coverage (the only time Fox even mentioned climate change was when they were deriding it.)

What the paper does focus on, Hansen said, is determining whether extreme weather events like the Texas heat wave can be attributed to climate variability — the natural ups and downs in seasonal temperature — or to the global upward trend in summer temperatures that science now links with climate change.

[Response: Your argument misses the point in three different and important ways, not even considering whether or not the Black Hills data have any general applicability elsewhere, which they may or may not: (1) It ignores the point made in the post about the potential effect of previous, seasonal warming on the magnitude of an extreme event in mid summer to early fall, due to things like (especially) a depletion in soil moisture and consequent accumulation of degree days, (2) it ignores that biological sensitivity is far FAR greater during the warm season than the cold season for a whole number of crucial variables ranging from respiration and photosynthesis to transpiration rates, and (3) it ignores the potential for derivative effects, particularly fire and smoke, in radically increasing the local temperature effects of the heat wave.

People have been making the same claims about the Russian heat wave earlier this summer, yet the Russians insist that nothing like it has been seen for at least 1,000 years.