Sentences with phrase «than surrounding areas»

Built up urban environments can be as much as 9 °C warmer than the surrounding area with buildings, road traffic and human activities all contributing to the «urban heat island» effect.

But I would expect temperatures to be higher than surrounding areas during the night due to the extra humidity.

Cities may be as much as 12 degrees C hotter than surrounding areas in the evening hours, because cities release built - up heat back out among buildings and avenues.

This area has appreciated almost 7 % in the last year and homes sell for 10 % less than surrounding areas.

The keyboard dock is also beautifully crafted out of aluminium with the keyboard placed slightly deeper than the surrounding area.

They found that sacred forests support a richer collection of bird species and more total birds than the surrounding areas.

Because seismic patterns travel slower in this region of the mantle, it is understandable that it can be up to 800 degrees Celsius higher than its surrounding areas.

On average, a city with at least a million residents can be 1 to 3 degrees C hotter than surrounding areas.

The seemingly cliff - like drop - off is not any deeper than the surrounding area.

Glenayre also gets points for being close to rapid transit, while prices are kept lower than surrounding areas due to the older housing stock.

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Glenayre also gets points for being close to rapid transit, while prices are kept lower than surrounding areas due to the older housing stock.

I like Santa Rosa because its a little quieter than the surrounding areas.

This fall 20 schools in the District will have more instructional time than surrounding areas to help with this effort.

And while Shaughnessy tends to have an older population than surrounding areas, they're a tech - savvy lot: 23.5 % own a tablet computer.

The hardest - hit counties are more strongly Democratic than surrounding areas are, so that could hurt voter turnout for Obama.

Combining data recorded from football players with computer simulations of the brain, a team working with David Camarillo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, found that concussions and other mild traumatic brain injuries seem to arise when an area deep inside the brain shakes more rapidly and intensely than surrounding areas.

Instead of the brain moving largely in unison, an area deep in the brain called the corpus callosum - which connects the left and right halves of the brain — shakes more rapidly than the surrounding areas, placing significant strain on those tissues.

Pluto has tilted over the eons, leaning so that the region always faces Pluto's moon, Charon — a strong hint Sputnik Planum is heavier than surrounding areas.

Starspots (like sunspots) are dark blotches on a star's surface where the temperature is a little cooler than the surrounding area.

What they found was that life in Roseto was much different than surrounding areas.

These bubbles, called «thermals», form over «thermal sources» such as concrete, bare sand and rocky hillsides, which become warmer on sunny days than surrounding areas of grass or forest.

New York City Nights 15 Degrees Warmer Than Surrounding Areas Illustrating the amplifying effect of the urban heat island on recent heatwaves, according to data collected by CCNY's New York City Meteorological Network, during the first July heatwave overnight temperatures were 10 - 15 °F higher in Manhattan than on Long Island or in western New Jersey, just a few miles away.

They found that tuberculosis, first spread to the Indians by gold miners in the 1970s and 1980s, had infected 6 % of the tribe — an incidence 100 times higher than surrounding areas, the researchers say.

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Towering buildings, dark roads and sparse vegetation combine to trap heat, making cities warmer than surrounding areas.

Average home prices are a bargain at just under $ 810,000 — 15 % less than the surrounding area and more than 55 % less than average home prices in Port Coquitlam.

Another selling point for buyers is that Chicago's property taxes are lower than surrounding areas, says Wong.

Simply put, as all climate scientists agree, urban / metro and airport areas are robustly warmer than surrounding areas, during both the daylight and night hours.

This happens when natural landscapes are replaced with buildings and asphalt streets that absorb and store more heat, making cities warmer than surrounding areas.

This explains why home prices in these two cities are generally much higher than surrounding areas, and also why it's a much safer investment than a neighborhood with a much poorer school rating.

As far as Jones street, it is very narrow and there is more «traffic» than the surrounding areas, but I wouldn't say it was a problem, just walk your bike to the corner.