Sentences with phrase «temperature record each year»

«We can now specifically say climate change is increasing the chance of observing a new temperature record each year,» he said.

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South African temperatures reached historic peaks and 2015 was the driest year since records began in 1904.

Scientists say 2016 will top last year as the hottest year on record and, during some months, temperature rise already seemed to veer close to the 2 °C benchmark.

In the U.S., temperatures continue to set new records as the fire season in many parts of the country has now stretched to as many as 300 days of the year.

During the first third of the year, from January through April, the average temperature for the contiguous United States was 4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th - century average, making this period the second warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

As for temperatures in 2017, the U.S. sweltered through its 3rd - warmest year on record, trailing only 2012 and 2016, NOAA said.

The coldest air in almost 20 years is sweeping over the central U.S. toward the East Coast, threatening to topple temperature records, ignite energy demand and damage Great Plains winter wheat.

It was a «roller - coaster ride» of a growing year that ended with a long, likely below - average - sized harvest punctuated by record September temperatures and October wildfires...

El Niño Now Among Strongest in Modern History; Unusually Warm and Unsettled Conditions Persist in California: Not only is 2015 California's warmest year on record to date (beating the previous record set all the way back in 2014), but the details of the persistently elevated temperatures have been particularly oppressive...

There can be no doubt that the planet is warming; 2016 was the fifth time in the 21st century a new record high annual temperature has been set (along with 2005, 2010, 2014, and 2015) and also marks the 40th consecutive year (since 1977) that the annual temperature has been above the 20th century average.

The amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere grew at a record rate in 2016 to a level not seen for millions of years, potentially fueling a 20 - meter (65 - foot) rise in sea levels and adding 3 degrees to temperatures, the United Nations said.

«We only have about 150 years of direct measurements of temperature, so if, for example, we want to estimate how great of variations that can be expected over 100 years, we look at the temperature record for that period, but it can not tell us what we can expect for the temperature record over 1000 years.

For a start, observational records are now roughly five years longer, and the global temperature increase over this period has been largely consistent with IPCC projections of greenhouse gas — driven warming made in previous reports dating back to 1990.

Manley's Central England record coincides well with the year - to - year rises and falls of temperature proxies: tree rings and written records of when winter ice spread over rivers or harbors and trees sprouted leaves.

He would continue reading the temperature thrice daily for the next seven years, recording it along with the wind, rain, barometric pressure and clouds.

Beginning in 1699, Anglican rector William Derham recorded temperatures in England three times every day for seven years using a custom thermometer.

The new normals, which will be released later in the year, will drop the 1970s — a decade marked by cool temperatures — and add the hottest recorded decade in history, the 2000s.

Dust found in the ice gives a record of what was in the air thousands of years ago, whether from volcanic eruptions or human activity, and the isotopic composition of the hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the snow give a record of the temperature of the earth at the time.

Mildrexler and his team focused on the annual maximum for each year as recorded by the Aqua satellite, which crosses the equator in the early afternoon as temperatures approach their daily peak.

The Japan Meteorological Agency says temperatures this summer are unlikely to match last year's, which were the highest since records began in 1898.

This year smashed global records for land temperatures, carbon dioxide levels and coral die - off.

This year, the waters in Lake Superior are on track to reach — and potentially exceed — the lake's record - high temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit

When a rock from space crashed to ground 38 million years ago, it briefly heated the impact zone to 2370 °C, the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth's crust

Boersma and Rebstock looked at the cause of every recorded chick mortality in an Argentinian colony of Magellanic penguins, over a nearly 30 - year period, and compared these with changes in temperature and precipitation over the same time.

The scientists, led by Eric Oliver of Dalhousie University in Canada, investigated long - term heat wave trends using a combination of satellite data collected since the 1980s and direct ocean temperature measurements collected throughout the 21st century to construct a nearly 100 - year record of marine heat wave frequency and duration around the world.

U.S. government agencies said on Wednesday that world temperatures in 2016 hit a record high for the third year in a row.

So Javier Martin - Torres of the Luleå University of Technology in Kiruna, Sweden, and colleagues have tracked the weather conditions on Mars throughout Curiosity's first Martian year, recording humidity, air and ground temperatures with its Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS).

The team used records of oxygen isotope ratios (which provide a record of ancient water temperature) from microscopic plankton fossils recovered from the Mediterranean Sea, spanning the last 5.3 million years.

He predicted that by year's end, the average global temperature would exceed the previous record by 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit.

The temperature record of the past 1000 years describes the reconstruction of temperature for the last 1000 years on the Northern Hemisphere.

The team studied the records of temperature, cool - season precipitation and stream flow for the years 1906 to 2012.

The units recorded the location and temperature of the animals every 15 minutes for two years.

The researchers analyzed temperature records for the years 1881 to 2013 from HadCRUT4, a widely used data set for land and sea locations compiled by the University of East Anglia and the U.K. Met Office.

The statewide average temperature for the first six months of 2014 was 1.1 degree F warmer than it has been for the past 120 years of records

The past several years, as well as the current one, have seen temperature and melting records set across Greenland.

The record exemplifies a temperature pattern that has held across the country for much of the year, with above - average temperatures in the West and below average in the East.

For the year to date, the average global temperature was 1.78 degrees F above average, surpassing the heat record set in 2015 by 0.23 degrees.

And though temperatures across the U.S. as a whole haven't set any records this year, the global average has been a different story.

To create their new temperature record, which spans 3.5 million years at the end of the Cretaceous and the start of the Paleogene Period, the researchers analyzed the isotopic composition of 29 remarkably well - preserved shells of clam - like bivalves collected on Antarctica's Seymour Island.

The tags, developed by CSIRO and Zelcon Technic, a small electronics company in Hobart, record measurements of temperature, depth and location for five years and store them for 20.

Scientists expect it to wind down by early 2017, as global temperatures recede after three successive years of record heat.

With an El Niño expected to develop late this summer or in the fall, there is a chance that 2014 could move into the spot as the warmest year on record, though the climate phenomenon's effects are generally most pronounced in the colder months, so the boost it gives to global temperatures could be reserved for 2015.

«Ice cores only tell you about temperatures in Antarctica,» Shakun notes of previous studies that relied exclusively on an ice core from Antarctica that records atmospheric conditions over the last 800,000 years.

The researchers found that due to warm spring temperatures on Kodiak, the berries were developing fruit weeks earlier, at the same time as the peak of the salmon migration; 2014 was one of the warmest years on the island since record - keeping began 60 years ago.

Ocean Only: The global ocean surface temperature for the year to date was 0.99 °F (0.55 °C) above average, tying with 2010 as the second warmest such period on record, behind only 1998.

An ancient record Assessing lake sediment cores from the region reaching 15,000 years into the past, a Montana State University team found whitebark pines more abundant despite higher summer temperatures and fire frequency than today.

Shakun and his colleagues started by creating the first global set of temperature proxies — a set of 80 different records from around the world that recorded temperatures from roughly 20,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago.

Late last year, sea temperatures in the Pacific were still 1.5 °C higher than normal, with 30 °C recorded where the International Date Line meets the equator, indicating that El Nino was still going strong.

Subtracting known influences and comparing their results with satellite records of Earth's day length, they found that elevated temperatures in the pool during El Niño years correlated with days that were a few microseconds longer than in other years.

If 2014 maintains this temperature departure from average for the remainder of the year, it will be the warmest year on record.