Sentences with phrase «temperatures of the north»

Some come from as far away as Canada to escape the colder temperatures of the north.

The region where the Arctic air came from did not warm up, because it is getting little to no energy from the sun, but the movement of cold air caused the average temperature of North America to drop.

Several studies have suggested that fluctuations in the surface temperature of the North Atlantic Ocean are partly responsible for shifts in the African monsoon.

D'Aleo and Easterbrook continue to fail to acknowledge the PDO is an aftereffect of ENSO and that the PDO represents the spatial pattern of the sea surface temperatures of the North Pacific, not the actual sea surface temperatures there.

It also fails to account for the very obvious long - term impact of ENSO on the sea surface temperatures of the North Atlantic.

The PDO is inversely related to the sea surface temperatures of the North Pacific (north of 20N) minus global sea surface temperatures, while the AMO is simply detrended North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies.

It is not simply detrended sea surface temperature anomaly data like the AMO.The PDO data is the standardized leading principal component of the sea surface temperatures of the North Pacific, north of 20N, after global sea surface temperatures are subtracted from the sea surface temperatures of each 5 × 5 deg grid.

The PDO represents the spatial pattern of the sea surface temperatures of the North Pacific.

The warming in Western Europe since about 1995 can be related to an increase of about +1 °C of the surface temperature of the North Atlantic — following an equivalent cooling over 1970 - 1995 - and an increase of the insolation with less aerosols.

«The Pacific Decadal Oscillation is a climate index based upon patterns of variation in sea surface temperature of the North Pacific from 1900 to the present (Mantua et al. 1997).

The PDO does not represent the multidecadal variability in the sea surface temperatures of the North Pacific.

The temperatures of North Atlantic Ocean water flowing north into the Arctic Ocean — the warmest water in at least 2,000 years — are likely related to the amplification of global warming in the Arctic.

Not exact matches

Beginning in September, thousands of protesters, including representatives from more than 100 Native American tribes, camped out in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, where they endured freezing temperatures and the powerful sprays of a «water cannon» to protest the pipeline's construction.

Ninety - five miles south of Los Angeles and 25 miles north of San Diego, Encinitas is a fun, beachy and historic town with average high temperatures of 72.

Farther north, Olympia, Washington, set a June temperature record of 98 degrees Fahrenheit.

«With normal winter wrap, your produce is still going to freeze if pallets are exposed to some of the extreme temperatures and wind chills that we experience here in the north.»

Although, as stated above, the traditional way of serve this garlicky bread is at room temperature, we sometimes switch things up a bit in North America and you will see a variation above for a hot version that calls for mozzarella cheese sprinkled and melted on the bread.

Located just north of San Diego County, California, the Festival has a successful history of celebrating Southern California Wine Country's finest assets of clear skies dotted by hot air balloons, mild temperatures, and rolling vineyards.

New farmland is being developed in South America, rising global temperatures should increase the area of arable land in north America and northern Europe and improved governance in Africa is leading to increased food production there.

The author and a friend are probably the first whitemen to make a similar trip (they chose to hike north to south) in midwinter.For 17 days in subzero temperatures they snowshoed through blizzards, clamberedacross mountains and elbowed through herds of elk in the valleys.

As of Sunday night, temperatures ranged from the low teens near the start of the race to some 20 degrees below zero further north.

5 p.m. — Food City 500 Forecast: Cloudy - scattered rain, possible drizzle Winds: North 5 - 10 mph Temperature: 65 6 p.m. — Food City 500 Forecast: Mostly cloudy, chance of a shower Winds: North 5 - 10 mph Temperature: 65

Despite the temperature dropping bitterly cold north of the Capital, the linesman's flag would come to the Hornets» rescue as the 15 minute mark approached.

His team had faced a long journey to the north of Mexico to play a match against in - form opponents in the high temperatures of the northern hemisphere summer.

Many may balk at the idea of going north to even more frigid temperatures, but I assure you it will invigorate all your senses, enchant your entire family and make you appreciate winter (and it's milder version in Chicago) even more.

Two Chicago treasures, the Garfield Park Conservatory on the city's West Side and the Lincoln Park Conservatory on the Near North, have been a haven from the city's single - digit temperatures since the turn of the 19th Century.

A research study done at the University of North Carolina looked at which was a better predictor of conception success: sex based on basal body temperature charting results or changes in cervical mucus.

This cycle coincides with the natural rise and fall of sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic, which fluctuate roughly 0.2 degree Celsius every 60 years as warm currents shift.

He thought he might know the reason: Thermometers often hung outside on north - facing walls, where reflected sunlight might warm the devices slightly above the temperature of the surrounding air.

Modern researchers have combined the fragmentary, overlapping records they left behind into a series of annual temperatures averaged over the region, which stretches from England's south coast 175 miles north to Manchester.

Empirical studies of forests across Alaska show that North America's white spruce require at least 280 millimeters (11 inches) of precipitation each year, a number that rises if mean summer temperatures are higher than 15.5 degrees Celsius (roughly 60 degrees Fahrenheit).

Looking at shifts in Manley's winter temperatures from year to year, he says, gives a good reading of important natural cycles that influence climate, such as changes in ocean circulation like the North Atlantic Oscillation.

Therefore she analyzed her Galápagos coral temperature chronologies alongside published coral temperature chronologies from islands farther north and west and instrumental sea surface temperature records from the southern Galápagos town of Puerto Ayora and the Peruvian coastal town of Puerto Chicama.

«We found that in North Pakistan and the Eastern Ghats, a mountain range close to the Indian Ocean, changes of temperatures and humidity mark a critical transition to monsoon,» explains Stolbova.

Nine thousand years ago, they survived frigid year - round temperatures in animal - skin tents some 500 kilometers north of what is now the Russian mainland, and they were the only people ever known to hunt large numbers of polar bears without firearms.

One of the stronger linkages between global warming and severe weather was found in an analysis of last year's high July temperatures in the northeastern and north - central United States.

First, sea - surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico have been higher than normal in the past couple of months, due to global warming, which means the air that flowed north would have been warmer to start with.

Because August temperatures in those two regions reflect the summer position of the North Atlantic jet stream, Trouet and her colleagues used those tree - ring readings to determine the historical position of the jet stream from 1725 to 1978.

His analysis showed that the LGM — when annual temperatures in northernmost Asia and northwestern North America were some 12 degrees Celsius lower than today — likely reduced the northern populations of mammoths as grasslands froze over and food became sparse.

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

In particular, the influence of warmer temperatures on moose nutritional condition and moose parasites, including a fatal brain worm parasite that is spread by white - tail deer, which have moved farther north into moose territory as the climate has gotten milder.

The research, an analysis of sea salt sodium levels in mountain ice cores, finds that warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean have intensified the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

The climatic change at issue is known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), a periodic cycle of warming and cooling of surface temperatures in the North Atlantic.

Painted turtles (Chrysemys picta), found in lakes and streams across North America, are one of many reptile species whose sex is determined by temperature.

It's called the polar jet stream, and as it writhes eastward across the North American continent, it can bring storms in its wake or herald an unseasonable change in temperature — north of the jet stream lies cold, Arctic air, while to its south are warmer conditNorth American continent, it can bring storms in its wake or herald an unseasonable change in temperature — north of the jet stream lies cold, Arctic air, while to its south are warmer conditnorth of the jet stream lies cold, Arctic air, while to its south are warmer conditions.

Familiar to anyone who has paged through a nursery catalogue, the USDA hardiness map divides North America into 11 latitudinal zones, each representing a 10 - degree (Fahrenheit) range of «average annual minimum temperature» — the coldest lows that can be expected in that area.

It would take a 5 °C rise to cause the same effect in Bald Head Island in North Carolina, at which stage the higher temperatures would already be causing more than 75 % of deaths among the all hatchlings in Florida.

Their results suggest a drop of as much as 10 degrees for fresh water during the warm season and 6 degrees for the atmosphere in the North Atlantic, giving further evidence that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and Earth's surface temperature are inextricably linked.

Record high temperatures in Pakistan's far north were already producing higher amounts of snowmelt and glacial meltwater runoff from the Karakoram Range and into the Indus River System.

Wanting to understand how the wandering lizards managed to adapt to cold temperatures on their journey north, Campbell - Staton looked over several years at five populations of Anolis carolinensis living at different latitudes.