Sentences with phrase «unusually warm region»

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During its positive phase the ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific are unusually warm and those outside this region to the north and south are often unusually cool.

A region to its northwest was unusually turbulent and chaotic, with bands that were cold and cloudy, alternating with bands that were warm and clear bands.

The anthrax currently infecting reindeer and people in western Siberia likely came from the carcass of a reindeer that died in an anthrax outbreak 75 years ago and has been frozen ever since — until an unusually warm summer thawed permafrost across the region this year, according to local officials.

«It has been an unusually mild winter,» said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. «The Northeast region had their fifth warmest December on record, and January has been warmer than average,» he told OurAmazingPlanet.

AMOC also ferries warm weather from the equator to Western Europe, where it helps bring the region unusually mild winters.

But there have been lingering questions about the relative importance of El Niño (and the Southern Oscillation, or ENSO) versus local forcing of unusually warm and cold periods in this variable and biologically productive ocean region along the west coast of the continental US and Baja California, Mexico.

For example, midwinter - freeze damage cost wine grape growers in the Finger Lakes region of New York millions of dollars in losses in the winters of 2003 and 2004.69 This was likely due to de-hardening of the vines during an unusually warm December, which increased susceptibility to cold damage just prior to a subsequent hard freeze.

The current bleaching event has affected reefs throughout the tropics — including much of the Pacific and parts of the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean basin — and is largely thanks to the onset of a particularly severe El Niño event in 2015, which has resulted in unusually warm water temperatures in many regions.

This past winter's unusually heavy snowstorms in Colorado did not happen because the region was colder than normal, but because it was warmer than usual.

What we — and other competent researchers — have all found is that the warmth was far more regional than modern warmth, with some large regions, like the tropical Pacific, having been unusually * cold * at the time, and when you average over the globe, the warmth of the medieval warm period / medieval climate anomaly simply doesn't reach modern warmth.