Not exact matches
The average
temperature in the Tamar Valley in the northeast of the state is around 17 degrees celsius, peaking at 22 degrees in the
summer — well below the Barossa's
typical summer spike into the upper 30s.
The day was marked with mild
temperatures that are usually
typical of
summer.
The
temperature there on a
typical summer's day is a chilly -10 °C.
But the new research shows that the
summer activity and body
temperature of bears on shore and on ice were
typical of fasting, non-hibernating mammals, with little indication of «walking hibernation.»
But even then the «fraction of the anomaly due to global warming» is somewhat arbitrary because it depends on the chosen baseline for defining the anomaly — is it the average July
temperature, or
typical previous
summer heat waves (however defined), or the average
summer temperature, or the average annual
temperature?
To give another, more specific example, at a
typical glacier on Mt. Baker, in Washington State, a
summer temperature increase of 1 °C translates to a ~ 150 m increase in the altitude of the equilibrium line (the point where annual ice accumulation = annual loss), and a resulting ~ 2 km retreat of the glacier terminus.
Naturally, a better understanding of how ambient air
temperature behaves in and around Furnace Creek on
typical, hot
summer afternoons should aid in understanding why and how the 134F reading came to be, and why it can not be valid.
Typical summer months are from mid-March to June often extending till 15 June, with maximum
temperatures sometimes reaching 42 °C (108 °F).
The study, «Cool Roofs in Guangzhou, China: Outdoor Air
Temperature Reductions during Heat Waves and
Typical Summer Conditions,» was published recently in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Using a regional climate model combined with an urban model that allowed researchers to adjust roof reflectance, they found that the average urban midday
temperature was lowered by 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) during heat waves, or 50 percent more than the 0.8 degrees Celsius reduction for
typical summer conditions.
Hot
summer days may be quite
typical of climates in many regions of the world, but global warming is causing Earth's average global
temperature to increase.