Sentences with phrase «than a warm summer»

Surprisingly, though, warmer springs rather than warmer summers are the killer, because this is the time when lizards reproduce and so need lots of extra food.

Definitely recommended, especially if you intend on driving the car on anything other than a warm Summer's day.

You'll be looking at summers then — the normal summer then — will be warmer than the warmest summers that you have now, and significantly warmer than the coldest summers.

Not exact matches

And you will too once the same garment has kept you cool and dry when worn with nothing more than a t - shirt under it during summer downpours as well as warm and dry when worn with thermal base layers during winter sleet and even snow.

The sixth - warmest September on record for the contiguous 48 states followed a summer that was milder than the year - ago period.

One hot summer, as I said, is no more proof of global warming than one raging winter is proof against it.

The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average of 54.3 degrees F. «We had our fourth warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.

Summer's soup recipes are wonderful and on a warm day what could be lovelier than a bowl of cold soup.

Man, what I wouldn't give for a warm summer afternoon where I had nothing more important to do than eat as many peaches as I felt like:)

Now that its warmer, our go - to summer dinner is a salad of mixed greens, scallions, fresh sweet corn off the cob, any other veggies from the farmers market that needs to be eatten up, and fresh dressing of garlic, half a lemon and olive oil with salt and pepper (more lemon than oil).

I think this is best enjoyed as a snack, or maybe a light meal for the rare warm summer days when we don't feel like staying in the kitchen for more than five minutes.

Few things suggest summer in warm coastal areas more than fish tacos.

-- Roasted Red Bell Pepper Soup — There is nothing better than a hot soup on a cold winter's day, as there is nothing more refreshing than a chilled soup on a warm summer's day.

I had this happen when I tried baking dinner rolls one day when it was very cold outside, my kitchen wasn't as warm and the results were vastly different than the nice summer day I first made the dinner rolls & they came out lovely.

Overall, wines made in this sub-region feature unique, intensive aromas and flavors that are influenced during summer months by a combination of hot days and warm nights — usually 8 degrees warmer than Oakville.

For gardeners who live in warm zones, the summer sun can be more of a hindrance than a help to getting high yields.

This hearty winter salad is more vegetable heavy than the light leafy summer ones that we enjoy during the warmer months.

LIVERMORE John Concannon, Fourth - Generation Vintner, Concannon Vineyard This year's harvest started about a week earlier than last year's due to a warmer summer and a drier spring, giving us a nearly perfect growing season.

Summer will be upon us before we know it, and there's nothing more fun than jazzing up your warm - weather wardrobe with a fun accessory in an eye - catching shade.

It's rather thick, so I don't know how much I'll use this in the summer or in temperatures warmer than about 78 ° F. I also did have some trouble reaching the snaps to connect the sleep hood.

But you see, the Met office never predicted a «barbecue summer», firstly because as scientists, the term «barbecue summer» is hardly scientific, but also because they predicted something along the lines of «there's a 60 % chance the summer will be warmer than average», which the media duly turned into «THEREZ GON NA B A BARBEE SUMA LOLZORZ!!!! 111» As someone on the internet said about Simon Jenkins recently, and could now so easily say about Hannan, he doesn't understand what a stochastic process is.

Rich wildlife at this Southern Ocean island faces surface waters 1.8 degrees F warmer in winter and 4.1 degrees F warmer in summer than they were 80 years ago

If they continue to die off, as they did in 1999 and 2003 when temperatures were 3 to 4 °C warmer than average and summer layers lasted longer than usual, fish and other sea life that depend on them will decline too, the team say.

High fire years, she said, almost exclusively are marked by warmer - than - average spring seasons followed by warm, dry summers.

Coral bleaching is the most immediate threat to reefs from climate change; it's caused when ocean temperatures become warmer than normal maximum summer temperatures, and can lead to widespread coral death.

A Swiss - led group using tree - ring data to look at Central European summer climate patterns during roughly 2,500 years saw that periods of prolonged warming and of colder than usual spells coincided with social upheavals.

Of course, summer temperatures when the warming portion of the wobble cycle peaked roughly 7,500 years ago were at least 0.8 degrees Celsius warmer than 20th - century average temperatures.

Between 1995 and 2013 — when the Arctic began warming disproportionately fast — extreme undulations over North America during the summer and autumn, the seasons when the Arctic melts, were 49 and 41 per cent more common than they were between 1979 and 1994.

New ice cores taken from the summit of Mt. Hunter in Denali National Park show summers there are least 1.2 - 2 degrees Celsius (2.2 - 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than summers were during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.

Pluto spends its time far from the sun, where temperatures hover around minus 391 degrees Fahrenheit; Ceres is much closer and can heat up to minus 37 F (warmer than summers at Antarctica's Vostok station).

The warmer temperatures are melting 60 times more snow from Mt. Hunter today than the amount of snow that melted during the summer before the start of the industrial period 150 years ago, according to the study.

«In order to sleep well during the summer when temperatures are warmer than normal, we may need to adapt by using more air conditioning, added fans at night and other technologies to counteract altered future temperatures.»

Analyses of sediment cores show that Arctic summers 3.6 million years ago were a good 8 degrees Celsius warmer than they are today, and supported Douglas fir and hemlock.

In contrast, shallow lakes warm much more quickly in the spring, so the timing of their summer stratification is much less variable than for deep lakes.

Summer in Denmark was 2.9 °F (1.6 °C) warmer than the 1961 - 1990 average and 0.7 °F (0.4 °C) warmer than the more recent 2001 - 2010 average.

About 3.6 million years ago, the far north was blanketed in boreal forests, and summers were 8 degrees Celsius warmer than they are today, geologists report May 9 in Science.

But the diplomat said he agreed with U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer, who earlier this summer made a similar assessment that the Copenhagen negotiations won't be the end - all on a global warming treaty that applies to more than 190 nations.

«We also found out that the forest plays a dominant role in controlling warm near - ground temperatures in the summer, more than local topography.

The fish inside the Biotest enclosure, while adjusted to much warmer waters than the Baltic fish, were only able to survive temperatures that were 4.6 degrees C warmer than the waters they were used to living in during the summer.

«As summers get warmer, more rain may not be better than less.»

Thanks to global warming, Arctic ice now melts faster in summer, creating expanses of open water covering more than 1000 kilometers.

Because the vast plateau at such altitudes absorbs a huge amount of solar radiation, the atmospheric layer above it in summer is much warmer than air at similar elevations over lower land or the oceans.

Due to the plateau's intense heating effects in the summer, the overlaying warm air can rise much higher into the atmosphere than over adjacent lowlands.

Scientists at the University of Leicester placed infected sticklebacks into a tank of water at 68 degrees Fahrenheit — about 9 degrees warmer than a typical summer's day in Britain — and found the tapeworms to grow four times faster than normal.

But warming the systems by 4 degrees Celsius resulted in more evapotranspiration, enough that groundwater had to support streamflow an entire season earlier, beginning in summer rather than in fall.

News headlines about record - breaking temperatures, disappearing summer sea - ice and retreating Greenland glaciers frequently remind us that the Arctic is warming more rapidly than any other place on Earth.

It seems that the oceans have absorbed much heat over the summer but have relased it into the atmosphere which has caused the ocean to freeze quickly and oddly even though the atmosphere is warmer than usual.

In his Figure 5 under a section entitled «A New Northern Hemisphere Summer Temperature Record» he shows that the mid to late 20th century temperature as determined from tree ring analysis is far warmer than any period in the past that his analysis includes (this only goes back to 1400 AD).

Winters have been warming more rapidly than summers, and while less extreme cold sounds appealing, the future effects of blistering summer heat are expected to outweigh the benefits of milder winters.

«According to our projections, large areas of the globe are likely to warm up so quickly that, by the middle of this century, even the coolest summers will be hotter than the hottest summers of the past 50 years,» said the study's lead author, Noah Diffenbaugh, in a Stanford University press release.