Sentences with phrase «than the average temperature during»

In 2017, 87 % of the Earth's surface was significantly warmer than the average temperature during 1951 - 1980, 10 % was of a similar temperature, and only 2.5 % was significantly colder.

Not exact matches

Although considered a relatively mild winter, with late January and February temperatures above average, the devastatingly cold weather experienced from late November through to early January saw the number of deaths rise above the national average, peaking during the first week of January 2011 with almost 3500 more deaths than the five - year average for that time of year.

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.

Oregon and Washington experienced much higher - than - average temperatures during the 2014 - 15 winter but were not as dry overall as California.

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.

If the temperatures during the runoff season — March to July — were cooler than average, streamflow was higher than expected on the basis of winter precipitation alone, the team found.

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.

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.

In urban areas during the winter when snow cover is less pervasive, temperatures are higher than rural areas in the daytime by an average of 2 °F.

Based on my understanding, it would be correct to say that the effect of doubling CO2 while there is no sunlight is for the temperature drop during the night to be slower — meaning, the minimum and average temperature will be higher than it would have been otherwise.

According to these data, the AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE for the first 9 months of 2008 is LOWER than the average from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th cAVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE for the first 9 months of 2008 is LOWER than the average from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th caverage from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th century.

During El Niño episodes, Montana tends to experience warmer - than - average temperatures and below - average precipitation, especially during the winter and sDuring El Niño episodes, Montana tends to experience warmer - than - average temperatures and below - average precipitation, especially during the winter and sduring the winter and spring.

The warmth was due to the near - record strong El Niño that developed during the Northern Hemisphere spring in the eastern and central equatorial Pacific Ocean and to large regions of record warm and much warmer - than - average sea surface temperatures in parts of every major ocean basin.

The January — December map of temperature anomalies shows that warmer - than - average temperatures occurred across the vast majority of the globe during 2015, combining to bring overall record warmth for 2015, at 0.90 °C (1.62 °F) above the 20th century average.

Both Burns and Butte saw average temperatures more than 20 F (11 C) below normal during a sharp cold spell over the West.

Much warmer - than - average temperatures engulfed most of the world's oceans during June 2016, with record high sea surface temperatures across parts of the central and southwest Pacific Ocean, northwestern and southwestern Atlantic Ocean, and across parts of the northeastern Indian Ocean.

Analysing surface temperature data for 1979 - 2015, they link a warm Arctic during March to colder - than - average temperatures over northern regions of North America and dry conditions in central southern areas between March and May.

During an average May, Goa enjoys around 12 hours of sunshine every day — that's the same as the previous month — along with an average sea temperature of 30 °C — that's 1 °C higher than the previous month.

During a normal April, Goa boasts an average of 12 hours of sunshine every day — that's one hour more each day than the previous month — alongside an average sea temperature of 29 °C — that's 1 °C more than the previous month.

During an average July, Goa enjoys six hours of daily sunshine — that's two hours less each day than the previous month — alongside an average sea temperature of 28 °C — that's 1 °C cooler than the previous month.

* However, the same panel then concluded that «the warming trend in global - mean surface temperature observations during the past 20 years is undoubtedly real and is substantially greater than the average rate of warming during the twentieth century.

If temperatures are at or below freezing (which is true even during this warmer - than - average winter in Colorado), that moisture will precipitate as snow, not rain.

«During November 2011 - January 2012, there is an increased chance of above - average temperatures across the south - central U.S. with the odds favoring below - average temperatures over the north - central U.S.. Also, above - average precipitation is favored across the northern tier of states, excluding New England, and drier - than - average conditions are more probable across the southern tier of the U.S. (see 3 - month seasonal outlook released on 20 October 2011).»

In AR4, the relevant statement was: Average Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were very likely higher than during any other 50 - year period in the last 500 years and likely the highest in at least the past 1,300 years..

The actual prevailing view of the paleoclimate research community that emerged during the early 1990s, when long - term proxy data became more widely available and it was possible to synthesize them into estimates of large - scale temperature changes in past centuries, was that the average temperature over the Northern Hemisphere varied by significantly less than 1 degree C in previous centuries (i.e., the variations in past centuries were small compared to the observed 20th century warming).

In Europe, for example, the average temperature between AD 21 and 80 was warmer than during AD 1971 - 2000.

Surface temperatures in parts of Europe appear to have have averaged nearly 1 °C below the 20th century mean during multidecadal intervals of the late 16th and late 17th century (and with even more extreme coolness for individual years), though most reconstructions indicate less than 0.5 °C cooling relative to 20th century mean conditions for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole.

During the Little Ice Age, the fall in average global temperature is estimated to have been less than 1 Â °C and lasted 70 years.

The scientific community has also known for some time that the predicted future global warming in most climate models (more than 2 degrees C.) would probably be well above the long - term average temperature present at any time during the Holocene.

Global average temperature is lower during glacial periods for two primary reasons: 1) there was only about 190 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, and other major greenhouse gases (CH4 and N2O) were also lower 2) the earth surface was more reflective, due to the presence of lots of ice and snow on land, and lots more sea ice than today (that is, the albedo was higher).

While temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer than average during the summers, the tropics and areas of the Southern Hemisphere were colder than average which comprised an average global temperature still overall lower than present day temperatures Northwestern North America had peak warmth first, from 11,000 to 9,000 years ago, while the Laurentide ice sheet still chilled the continent.

However, despite near normal rates of ice loss during the month, June 2015 was a relatively warm month (Figure 7) with 925 hPa air temperatures up to 2.5 C higher than average near the North Pole and East Siberian Sea, with even warmer air temperatures in the Kara Sea (up to 4.5 C).

In 2005, during the hottest average decade on record, 8 low - wind conditions known as «the doldrums» combined with very high ocean temperatures to cause massive coral bleaching in the Virgin Islands.9 This was followed by a particularly severe outbreak of at least five coral diseases in the Virgin Islands, resulting in a decline in coral cover of about 60 percent.9 There is some indication that higher ocean temperatures — between 86 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit (30 to 35 degrees Celsius)-- promote optimal growth of several coral pathogens.9 Other research showed that elkhorn coral post-bleaching had larger disease lesions than unbleached specimens, suggesting that bleaching may increase the corals» susceptibility to disease.9, 10

In the United States, the average temperature during the past decade was 0.8 ° Celsius (1.5 ° Fahrenheit) warmer than the 1901 - 1960 average, according to the latest National Climate Assessment.

The average global temperature now is only some 9 C warmer than during the depths of the last ice age, and the planet took some two millennia to emerge from that.

During the drought years of 2012 — 2015, mean monthly water temperatures in the freshwater regions of the Delta from April to July were on average higher than between 1995 and 2011 (two - factor ANOVA, Bonferroni corrected P < 0.01), demonstrating the effects of drought on surface water temperatures (Fig. 1B).

It is very likely that average NH temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were warmer than any other 50 - year period in the last 500 years and likely the warmest in at least the past 1300 years.

that average NH temperatures during the second half of the 20th century were warmer than any other 50 - year period in the last 500 years and

Warming was not global during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly; average global temperatures were lower than today

According to these data, the AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE for the first 9 months of 2008 is LOWER than the average from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th cAVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE for the first 9 months of 2008 is LOWER than the average from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th caverage from 2000 thru 2007 by an amount equal to 43.1 % of the total linearized increase (NOAA data) during the 20th century.

Because hurricane caused flooding was more prevalent during the Little Ice Age when Atlantic temperatures averaged 1 to 2 degrees F colder than today researchers concluded, «The frequent occurrence of major hurricanes in the western Long Island record suggests that other climate phenomena, such as atmospheric circulation, may have been favorable for intense hurricane development despite lower sea surface temperatures.»

For example, during the «Holocene thermal maximum,» the warmest period of the past 10,000 years, the Arctic average temperature was two to three degrees warmer than it is today, while the global average was only a degree or so warmer.

The most recent 13 complete calendar years, from 2002 through 2014, have averaged 0.18 °C (about 0.33 °F) warmer than the 30 - year baseline average, while the global temperature trend during that span was a warming trend at the rate of +0.05 °C per decade — which is also statistically insignificant.

Since 1900, the global average temperature has risen by 0.7 degrees Celsius, and the northern hemisphere is substantially warmer than at any point during the past 1,000 years.

March was also the first month the average temperature was more than 1.8 above or below the average temperature during a year without an El Nino effect, NOAA said.

The step up in average temperatures during the ENSO cycle looks a lot more like a chaotic abrupt event than it does like CO2 induced warming.

During that same period, average annual rainfall in New South Wales declined by 3.6 inches (92 millimeters).3 Scientists think the decline in autumn rainfall in southeast Australia since the late 1950s may be partly due to increases in heat - trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere.3, 14 Major bushfires over southeast Australia are linked to the positive phase of an ocean cycle called the «Indian Ocean Dipole» — when sea surface temperatures are warmer than average in the western Indian Ocean, likely in response to global warming.15, 16

The sea level high - stand was associated with the so - called Climatic Optimum or the Holocene Optimum, during 8000 to 4000 BC when average global temperatures reached their maximum level during the Holocene and were warmer than present day.