Sentences with phrase «warm sea temperatures»

I've sent a query to some hurricane researchers to get a bit more on what, besides warm sea temperatures, makes conditions this ripe for powerful tropical storms.

McKibben and his source for data on the storm, Wunderground meteorologistI Jeff Masters, are right when they say this storm is being fed by extremely warm sea temperatures and will be producing extraordinary rainfall (as I wrote on Wednesday).

Trade winds, relatively calm water, warm air temperatures and warm sea temperatures just about 365 days a year makes Bonaire an ideal destination for your Kiteboarding vacation.

The technique may help scientists better track population numbers of these penguins, which are threatened by warmer sea temperatures.

But climate change has brought milder winters, warmer sea temperatures and bigger storms, which create a vicious cycle that promises less sea ice and more wind and open water to generate ice - crushing waves.

On the Great Barrier Reef, the bleaching coincided with the warmest sea temperatures ever recorded.

It is not yet clear whether populations that currently bask on land during cooler months will adapt to warming sea temperatures and begin to bask exclusively in the water, as do some other populations around the world.

With so many daily sunshine hours and such a warm sea temperature, May is a great month to hit the beach, but try and avoid being out in the sun between 11 am and 3 pm, when the sun's rays are most powerful.

With such a high number of sunshine hours every day and such a warm sea temperature, March is the ideal month to hit the beach.

A much loved month for water sports enthusiasts who flock to the Maldives during the end of the dry season, April is warm and boasts the warmest sea temperatures of the year.

Healthier reefs will also be more resilient to impacts like warming sea temperature that can't be prevented locally.

Coral is at serious risk from two things: - Warming sea temperature will kill the coral polyps and there is irrefutable evidence that sea temperature is rising and - Increased Carbon dioxide dissolved in the sea in raising the pH or making it mare acidic and this is close to the level that will kill coral.

The World Heritage - listed site, which attracts millions of tourists each year, is reeling from significant bouts of coral bleaching due to warming sea temperatures linked to climate change.

Not exact matches

Warming temperatures have been chipping away at the Antarctic ice and contributing to sea level rise.

The warming temperatures have caused ice caps to melt, and sea levels to rise, scientific agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say.

Evidence from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows that global sea levels in the last two decades are rising dramatically as surface temperatures warm oceans and...

While no specific weather event like this can be directly attributed to global warming, it does fit the pattern of increased hurricane activity overall since the 1970s, coinciding with a rise in sea temperature.

Rising temperatures will warm the oceans and accelerate melting of land ice, affecting sea - levels along the California coast.

So the alarmist community has reacted predictably by issuing ever more apocalyptic statements, like the federal report» Global Change Impacts in the United States» issued last week which predicts more frequent heat waves, rising water temperatures, more wildfires, rising disease levels, and rising sea levels — headlined, in a paper I read, as «Getting Warmer.»

Warm sea surface temperature anomalies persist off to W and SW of San Diego, but are smaller than in previous weeks over the past month.

Sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTAs) will continue to be on the warm side into early May.

Waffle dough 2 1/4 teaspoons (7g) active dry yeast 1/4 cup (50g) warm water, between 105 - 108 ˚F 2 cups (280g) white whole wheat flour 1/2 teaspoon (2g) fine sea salt 1/4 cup (52g) cane sugar 1/4 cup (45g) refined coconut oil, melted 1/2 cup (110g) unsweetened almondmilk, room temperature 2 flax eggs (88g) 1 teaspoon (4g) pure vanilla extract 1/2 cup pearl sugar

1 cup whole wheat pastry flour 1 teaspoon baking powder scant 1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt 1 cup rolled oats 2/3 cup chopped walnuts 1 cup shredded carrots 1/2 cup real maple syrup, room temperature 1/2 cup unrefined (fragrant) coconut oil, warmed until just melted 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger

Warming temperatures, shifting seasons, changing precipitation, and rising sea levels are disrupting the behavior of our feathered friends and the ecosystems that support them.

Warming temperatures, sea level rise, and ocean acidification — among other challenges — will force our feathered friends to adapt.

This cycle coincides with the natural rise and fall of sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic, which fluctuate roughly 0.2 degree Celsius every 60 years as warm currents shift.

Warming temperatures causes ocean water to expand, which raises sea level and glacial ice to melt that creates water that makes its way into ocean basins.

They found that tropical sea surface temperature in the Eocene was about 6 degrees Celsius — about 10 degrees Fahrenheit — warmer than today.

Sea ice skylights formed by warming Arctic temperatures increasingly allow enough sunlight into the waters below to spur phytoplankton blooms, new research suggests.

If they continue to die off, as they did in 1999 and 2003 when temperatures were 3 to 4 °C warmer than average and summer layers lasted longer than usual, fish and other sea life that depend on them will decline too, the team say.

The fall of the temperature of the sea water is sometimes a sign of the proximity of ice, although in regions where there is an intermixture of cold and warm currents going on, as at the junction of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream, the temperature of the sea has been known to rise as the ice is approached.

Higher sea surface temperatures led to a huge patch of warm water, dubbed «The Blob,» that appeared in the northern Pacific Ocean more than two years ago.

The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

Changes in three important quantities — global temperature, sea level and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere — all show evidence of warming, although the details vary.

Around 3 million years ago, when temperatures were just 1 to 2 °C higher than the average of the past couple of millennia before humans began warming the climate, sea level was at least 25 metres higher than present.

In sea turtles, sex is determined by the nest's environment: warmer temperatures produce females and cooler temperatures produce males.

The finding surprised the University of Arizona - led research team, because the sparse instrumental records for sea surface temperature for that part of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean did not show warming.

And because clouds reflect sunlight, cloud dissipation causes more sunlight to transfer to the ground and seas, ultimately resulting in warmer ground and air temperatures.

In comparable interglacials in the past half million years, when temperatures were less than 1 °C warmer than they are now, sea level was around 5 metres higher.

So while it may take decades for warming at the sea surface to change deep - sea temperatures, alterations in wind - driven events may have more immediate effects.

You need warm sea - surface temperatures, an environment of low wind shear, high humidity — and those are just a few of the conditions.

The researchers identified several key circulation patterns that affected the winter temperatures from 1979 to 2013, particularly the Arctic Oscillation (a climate pattern that circulates around the Arctic Ocean and tends to confine colder air to the polar latitudes) and a second pattern they call Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia (WACE), which they found correlates to sea ice loss as well as to particularly strong winters.

For more than 10 weeks beginning in January, sea temperatures were between 2 °C and 4 °C warmer than usual along a 2000 - kilometre stretch of coast — the area's most extreme warming event since records began.

«We expected the storm would definitely get stronger because of much warmer sea surface temperature,» Lau said.

First, sea - surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico have been higher than normal in the past couple of months, due to global warming, which means the air that flowed north would have been warmer to start with.

Then, they nestled the boxes into parts of the sea floor near the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica, where they warmed a thin layer of water to 1 °C or 2 °C above the ambient temperature.

The research, an analysis of sea salt sodium levels in mountain ice cores, finds that warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean have intensified the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

In the new set - up, a real - world seasonal forecast driven by data on current sea - surface temperatures will be run alongside a simulated «no global warming» seasonal forecast, in which greenhouse gas emissions have been stripped out.

Mori et al. identified two circulation patterns that drove winter temperatures in Eurasia from 1979 to 2013: the Arctic Oscillation (which confines colder air to the polar latitudes) and a pattern dubbed «Warm Arctic and Cold Eurasia» (WACE), which correlated both to sea - ice loss in the Barents - Kara Sea and to particularly cold winters; its impact has more than doubled the probability of severe winters in central Eurassea - ice loss in the Barents - Kara Sea and to particularly cold winters; its impact has more than doubled the probability of severe winters in central EurasSea and to particularly cold winters; its impact has more than doubled the probability of severe winters in central Eurasia.

Scientific observations show that in the Arctic, warming temperatures have led to a 75 % loss in sea ice volume since the 1980s, and recent reports suggest the Arctic Ocean will be nearly free of summer sea ice by 2050, said Sullivan.