Sentences with phrase «unusually warm winter»

«New - home completions ticked upward... as the unusually warm winter helped builders advance their completion schedules,» Kirchner says.

Following an unusually warm winter, the melting season began with record lows (post-1979, the satellite era) for both maximum ice extent and volume.

The unusually warm winter in and around St. Louis has caused many flowering plants and trees, such as magnolias and peach blossoms, to bloom early this year.

Driven by efficiency gains, an unusually warm winter and a switch from coal to natural gas, energy - related carbon dioxide emissions actually declined 3.8 % in 2012 even though the U.S. economy grew 2.8 % that year, according to new data by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Department of Energy.

Russ Richards (John Travolta), a weatherman on a local TV station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, sells snowmobiles on the side, but both careers are in a rut thanks to an unusually warm winter.

It's unusually warm Winter!

And a large majority of Americans believe that global warming made several high profile extreme weather events worse, including record high summer temperatures nationwide, droughts in Texas and Oklahoma, catastrophic Mississippi River flooding, Hurricane Irene and an unusually warm winter.

The unusually warm winter has thus contributed to the likely continuation of the dramatic decline of the Arctic sea ice throughout 2016.

The deceleration reflected sharp cutbacks in government spending and weaker business investment and came despite an unusually warm winter, which many economists said likely provided a mild economic boost.

But it said that «distortions» from seasonal adjustment and «payback» from the unusually warm winter — which drew economic activity forward from the spring — seemed to be part of the explanation.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

Before we conclude that global warming is killing moose and creating unusually warmer winters, we need examine more closely local dynamics and their relationship to landscape changes and natural ocean cycles much more closely.

Not exact matches

I live on the top floor of our apartment, so unusually warm temperatures are a real problem, even during the winter.

If you were lucky, you got a chance to go outside for lunch today to enjoy the warm, springlike air on this unusually mild winter day.

The net result is a greater chance for unusually cold winters, or at times unusually warm ones, in the northeastern U.S. and Europe, according to an article by Cornell University Earth and atmospheric scientist Charles Greene in Scientific American's December 2012 issue.

A study led by researchers at the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 that closed fisheries from southern California to northern British Columbia to the unusually warm ocean conditions — nicknamed «the blob» — in winter and spring of that year.

If this winter is unusually cold, he said, you would expect to see a «small drop» in the percentage of people who think global warming is happening.

And it finds that, while this winter's unusually strong Arctic Oscillation - which funnels cold northern air to the East Coast and pulls warm mid-latitude air up to the Arctic - is predicted as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, seasonal temperature anomalies associated with it aren't enough to blunt long - term warming trends.

But five cities vying to host the 2022 Winter Olympics also could be confounding athletes with unusually warm weather eight years from now.

The drought in California has been building for more than four years, as winter precipitation deficits slowed streams to a trickle and sent reservoir levels dipping, while unusually warm temperatures increased water demand.

Climate Central has been reporting on preliminary research suggesting that warmer air in the Arctic may be disrupting the jet stream, leading (although not consistently) to some unusually cold winters in recent years in both North America and Europe.

«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.

Even during the winter, you always get a few unusually warm days when mosquito's can rear their ugly heads.

So it wasn't surprising to read the takeaway line in an op - ed article over the weekend by Judah Cohen, a commercial weather analyst, on the seeming paradox of unusually wintry winters in many populous parts of the Northern Hemisphere even as the world warms:

So the unusually cold and snowy winters we've been having the last few years in England are due to global warming.

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

After an unusually cold winter in 2011 (December 2010 - February 2011) the winter of 2012 was unusually warm in the continental United States.

But a greater percentage of the contiguous USA had an unusually cold winter in 1936 than had an unusually warm summer.

Guardian — 20 December 2010 George Monbiot That snow outside is what global warming looks like Unusually cold winters may make you think scientists have got it all wrong.

In the past few years, unusually warm air in the Arctic has driven winter storm tracks south into the United States, reflecting the complex and sometimes counteracting ways that climate change may affect local weather extremes.

Although the winter and early spring are the normal time of year for dolphin strandings to occur, the weather this season has been unusually warm, leading to speculation about climate change and subsequently low «distribution of prey» as possible causes.

The extent of Bering Sea ice cover this year has so far exceeded that of the previous two years, he added, because the extraordinary and record - setting low sea - ice formation of the past two winters mainly were due to a couple of short - term factors: a strong El Nino and an unusually persistent warm - water mass in the north Pacific commonly called «The Blob.»

While I do remember one unusually cold winter in the last 10 years when we had snow on the ground until the end of March because it just wouldn't get warm enough to thaw (France actually ran out of power for their electrical heating that year, leading to huge imports from Germany, because nuclear plants just don't adapt well to demand), normally we should be in spring by now.

This paper is a «one year anniversary» non-event, in an apparent attempt to get everyone's attention off of IPCC, Climategate, unexplained lack of warming of both the atmosphere and the upper ocean, unusually harsh winters across the northern hemisphere, loss of public confidence and trust and a host of other worries for the «alarming AGW faithful».

There were a few abnormally harsh winters across the northern hemisphere, when the climate scientists had forecast unusually mild ones, «barbeque summers» that never materialized and suddenly even the global network of thermometers no longer supported the idea of continued warming — the planet had stopped warming.

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.

NASA said: During the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2010 — 2011, unusually cold temperatures and heavy snowstorms plagued North America and Europe, while conditions were unusually warm farther north.

Even if next winter is warmer than this past winter, which is not a guarantee, as soon as the Pacific Ocean returns to normal and El Niño resides, unusually cold and snowy winters will return.

During El Niño, the unusually warm surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific lead to changes in atmospheric circulation, causing unusually wetter winters in the southwestern United States and thus wider tree rings (representing more growth of the tree).

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.

For example over the past winter the Arctic ice cap did see unusually warm surface temperatures, yet Arctic sea ice did not shrink as some would intuitively expect it to do.

But every few years, the winters become unusually warm or unusually cold, or the frequency of hurricanes increases or decreases, and the pattern sets in for an indeterminate period.

EDMONTON - When it comes to guilty pleasures, there is a new one in Canada - walking out the door on a winter morning and instead of shivering in bitter cold, basking in unusually warm and pleasant weather.

- walking out the door on a winter morning and instead of shivering in bitter cold, basking in unusually warm and pleasant weather.

Dr Pfister reported to Hubert Lamb that for several decades prior to 1564 the Swiss climate was on average 0.4 c warmer than today (1990's) In Switzerland, the first particularly cold winters appear to have begun in the 1560s, with cold springs beginning around 1568, and with 1573 the first unusually cold summer (Pfister, 1995).

Weather conditions similar to 2012 occurred in the winter of 1942, when the U.S. Midwest was unusually warm, and when the Wehrmacht encountered the formidable forces of «General Frost» in a Russian winter not unlike the one Russians just had.

Often when it's unusually warm one winter in one part of the world it's unusually cold in another.

Global Warming and Whipsaw Weather Perhaps you've noticed that we've had a record - shattering heat wave across much of North America in recent months, whereas Europe and Asia have experienced an unusually cold winter.

The loading of the dice in winter (Fig. 5, Middle), i.e., the shift to unusually warm seasons, is not as great as in summer, despite the fact that observed warming in winter is larger than in summer (5).

Similar scenarios have repeated in other cities across the United States and in Europe, where unusually warm weather has made it appear at times as if Mother Nature is skipping winter and leaping directly into spring.