Sentences with phrase «than average temperatures in»

«Despite colder than average temperatures in any one part of the world, temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we've seen over the last 40 years,» said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, at the press conference.

On the other hand, the 2017 global temperature remains stubbornly high, well above the trend line (Fig. 1), despite cooler than average temperature in the tropical Pacific Niño 3.4 region (Fig. 5), which usually provides an indication of the tropical Pacific effect on global temperature.

Not exact matches

The American Meteorological Society published research in 2011 that found current temperature has a bigger effect on our happiness than variables like wind speed and humidity, or even the average temperature over the course of a day.

«It is highly unlikely that coral reefs will survive more than a two degree increase in average global temperature relative to pre-industrial levels,» he said.

In New York and Washington, the average daily temperature was 17 degrees lower than in January 201In New York and Washington, the average daily temperature was 17 degrees lower than in January 201in January 2016.

In one study, a lower than average temperature (68 degrees) caused workers to make 44 percent more errors, and their productivity was cut in halIn one study, a lower than average temperature (68 degrees) caused workers to make 44 percent more errors, and their productivity was cut in halin half.

As Mann explained, the rising temperatures in the region add up to 1 °C to 1.5 °C higher temperatures than average a few decades ago.

This year, the Atlantic was warmer than average — Klotzbach says August through October will likely rank third or fourth in terms of highest tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures.

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.

Last week's daily temperatures across the Darling Downs in the high 30's and sometime nudging 40 Celsius were 6 to 8 degrees hotter than the average for this time of the year.

Hundreds of state workers continued to roast in a downtown office building Tuesday after the cooling system was disconnected amid warmer - than - average temperatures around the Capital Region.

Hundreds of state workers continued to roast in a downtown Albany office building yesterday after the cooling system was disconnected amid warmer - than - average temperatures around the Capital Region.

During the Eocene, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was more than 560 parts per million, at least twice preindustrial levels, and the epoch kicked off with a global average temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius — about 14 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer than today, gradually cooling over the next 22 million years.

Mote said snowpack levels in most of the western U.S. for 2017 - 18 thus far are lower than average — a function of continued warming temperatures and the presence of a La Niña event, which typically results in warmer and drier conditions in most southwestern states.

They found that in a hypothetical world in which cities sported highly reflective white roofs, urban temperatures were on average 0.6 °C cooler than in cities with existing, mostly black roofing materials.

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.

What little snow did fall melted away quickly when warmer - than - average temperatures hit the state in March and April, said Tim Mowry, public information officer for the Alaska Division of Forestry.

This year is also in the wake of a strong El Niño, when higher - than - average temperatures would be expected.

The average daily maximum temperature during the pup - rearing period was roughly 1 °C higher in the first 12 years of monitoring than in the second 12 years, and over the same period the average number of pups surviving per pack per year fell from five to three.

As a result, the climate policy scenario lowered global average temperatures by 0.27 degrees in 2050, which is more than when only short - lived climate forcers were controlled.

In some tropical and subtropical regions it is more common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season versus the dry season, as the amount of precipitation may vary more dramatically than the average temperature.

Published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper concludes that limiting the increase in global average temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 1.5 °C, the goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, is not yet geophysically impossible, but likely requires more ambitious emission reductions than those pledged so far.

The research found that cutting soot and methane as described above produced an average temperature reduction of 0.16 degrees Celsius by 2050, which is substantially less than the 0.5 - degree reduction found in earlier studies.

There are more than a dozen widely used global climate models today, and despite the fact that they are constantly being upgraded, they have already proved successful in predicting seasonal rainfall averages and tracking temperature changes.

In the past decade, summertime Arctic temperatures have been 1.4 degrees Celsius higher on average than would be expected and 1.2 degrees Celsius higher than in 190In the past decade, summertime Arctic temperatures have been 1.4 degrees Celsius higher on average than would be expected and 1.2 degrees Celsius higher than in 190in 1900.

If climate change gets catastrophic — and the world sees more than 6 degrees Celsius warming of average temperatures — the planet will have left the current geologic period, known as the Quaternary and a distant successor to the Ordovician, and have returned to temperatures last seen in the Paleogene period more than 30 million years ago.

Climate researchers now find themselves staring down an unsettling reality: In this century, average global temperature may increase more than two degrees C — possibly quite a bit more.

It was cold, so cold that the dogs suffered visibly; yet the average temperature was no lower than that in many an inhabited part of Canada.

But when average temperatures rise, as is happening in many places around the world because of climate change, big blocks of ice melt more quickly than they can grow during the winter.

The team found during 2000 - 2014, temperatures in the river's Upper Basin were 1.6 degrees F (0.9 C) higher than the average for the previous 105 years.

In fact, the mitigation pledges collected under the ongoing Cancun Agreements, conceived during the 2010 climate talks, would lead to global average temperature rise of more than 2 degrees Celsius, according to multiple analyses — and may not lead to a peaking of greenhouse gas emissions this decade required to meet that goal.

And although companies are pledging to do more than ever to reduce emissions, «disparity [exists] between companies» strategies, targets and the emissions reductions» that climate scientists say will be necessary to limit the rise in average global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius.

Earth's atmosphere behaves in the same way, keeping the planet's average temperature at 59 degrees Fahrenheit rather than the chilly zero degrees it would be if our world were airless.

About 460 million years ago, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere ranged somewhere between 14 and 22 times the current level, and the average global temperature was about 5 °C higher than it is now.

Under midrange projections for economic growth and technological change, the planet's average surface temperature in 2050 will be about two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than its preindustrial value.

As of March 2013, surface waters of the tropical north Atlantic Ocean remained warmer than average, while Pacific Ocean temperatures declined from a peak in late fall.

A recent report by two leading nonprofits, the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization and the Natural Resources Defense Council, details how the 11 U.S. western states together have experienced an increase in average temperature during the last five years some 70 percent greater than the global average rise.

The Seattle area has suffered its most significant and lingering snowfall — and lower than average winter temperatures — in decades.

On average, the world is 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer today than it was in 1880, and climatologists say temperatures could increase by 5.6 to 7.2 F by 2100.

«You would expect that the temperatures in the north would be rising faster than the global average,» Laaksonen said.

In the past few decades, average Arctic temperatures have warmed roughly 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius); average temperatures in Antarctica have warmed slightly less than 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree CelsiusIn the past few decades, average Arctic temperatures have warmed roughly 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius); average temperatures in Antarctica have warmed slightly less than 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsiusin Antarctica have warmed slightly less than 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius).

The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute found that average national temperatures between 1991 and 2013 were 1.6 C higher than the average of temperatures between 1861 and 1890, according to Markku Rummukainen, a professor at the Centre for Environment and Climate Research at Lund University in Sweden.

It's an area described as a climate «hot spot,» with temperatures in many parts rising faster than the global average.

In the latter half of the decade, La Niña conditions persisted in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decadIn the latter half of the decade, La Niña conditions persisted in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decadin the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decade.

The cooler - than - average August temperatures in the U.K. were accompanied by wet conditions.

Laaksonen and his colleagues did not try to predict how Finland's temperatures will change in the coming decades, but according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report, Arctic temperatures are likely to continue rising faster than the global average through the end of the 21st century.

Already, the planet's average temperature has warmed by 0.7 degree C, which is «very likely» (greater than 90 percent certain) to be a result of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Although the temperature was 0.4 °F (0.2 °C) higher than the 1981 - 2010 average, summer 2014 was the coolest since 2005 for Austria since records began in 1884.

At the height of the El Niño in November, colder - than - average temperatures in the Western Pacific and warmer - than - average temperatures in the Eastern Pacific were stronger and extended deeper in 1997 than in 2015.

The visualization shows how the 1997 event started from colder - than - average sea surface temperatures — but the 2015 event started with warmer - than - average temperatures not only in the Pacific but also in in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.