Sentences with phrase «warmer than average temperatures»

Warmer than average temperatures occurred in the northeastern U.S., eastern Canada, southern Greenland, central and southern Europe, Japan, and western Australia, among other locations.

So it's likely that 2016 will continue to have warmer than average temperatures.

In 2013, the longest warm spell of the year took place between December 14th and December 30th — that's 17 consecutive days which had warmer than average temperatures.

Some warmer than average temperatures can be attributed to a global climate phenomenon called the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, or ENSO.

Warmer than average temperatures were evident over most of the global land surfaces, except for parts of the United States and western Europe, northern Siberia, parts of eastern Asia and much of central Australia stretching north.

Warmer than average temperatures were evident over most of the global land surface, except for parts of western Europe, northern Siberia, parts of eastern Asia and much of central Australia stretching north.

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

The January - to - March quarter was the nation's warmest three - month start since at least 1895, with an average temperature of 42.01 degrees Fahrenheit — six degrees warmer than the long - term average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

This year, the Atlantic was warmer than average — Klotzbach says August through October will likely rank third or fourth in terms of highest tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures.

The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average of 54.3 degrees F. «We had our fourth warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.

Hundreds of state workers continued to roast in a downtown office building Tuesday after the cooling system was disconnected amid warmer - than - average temperatures around the Capital Region.

Hundreds of state workers continued to roast in a downtown Albany office building yesterday after the cooling system was disconnected amid warmer - than - average temperatures around the Capital Region.

• Temperatures average more than 2 degrees warmer across the region now compared to the 1960s.

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.

Mote said snowpack levels in most of the western U.S. for 2017 - 18 thus far are lower than average — a function of continued warming temperatures and the presence of a La Niña event, which typically results in warmer and drier conditions in most southwestern states.

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 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.

What little snow did fall melted away quickly when warmer - than - average temperatures hit the state in March and April, said Tim Mowry, public information officer for the Alaska Division of Forestry.

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.

Of course, summer temperatures when the warming portion of the wobble cycle peaked roughly 7,500 years ago were at least 0.8 degrees Celsius warmer than 20th - century average temperatures.

But for planetary scientists, Jupiter's most distinctive mystery may be what's called the «energy crisis» of its upper atmosphere: how do temperatures average about as warm as Earth's even though the enormous planet is more than fives times further away from the sun?

If climate change gets catastrophic — and the world sees more than 6 degrees Celsius warming of average temperatures — the planet will have left the current geologic period, known as the Quaternary and a distant successor to the Ordovician, and have returned to temperatures last seen in the Paleogene period more than 30 million years ago.

Warmer - than - average spring temperatures reduce upper Colorado River flows more than previously recognized, according to a new report from a University of Arizona - led team.

One period of particular interest is a warm, wet interglacial stage known as the Eemian that occurred from 124,000 to 119,000 years ago, featuring average global temperatures about 2 °C warmer than today.

Unlike previous Pliocene models, this «no ice» version returned temperatures 18 to 27 F warmer than today's average annual temperatures for the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, coming closer to what the historical data pulled from the ground said.

The statewide average temperature for the first six months of 2014 was 1.1 degree F warmer than it has been for the past 120 years of records

Places where the Pacific was cooler than normal are blue, places where temperatures were average are white, and places where the ocean was warmer than normal are red.

«Temperature anomalies are warming faster than Earth's average, study finds.»

As of March 2013, surface waters of the tropical north Atlantic Ocean remained warmer than average, while Pacific Ocean temperatures declined from a peak in late fall.

On average, the world is 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer today than it was in 1880, and climatologists say temperatures could increase by 5.6 to 7.2 F by 2100.

Temperatures at the Antarctic Peninsula have increased by 2.5 degrees Celsius over the last 50 years, warming that is much faster than the concurrent average global temperature increase.

In the past few decades, average Arctic temperatures have warmed roughly 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius); average temperatures in Antarctica have warmed slightly less than 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius).

The Earth's average surface temperature is about 33 °C warmer than it would be without the greenhouse effect.

Following a record warm July, Norway had an August temperature that was 1.8 °F (1.0 °C) higher than the 1961 - 1990 long - term average for the country.

Temperatures were also warmer than the annual average from March through May.

In the latter half of the decade, La Niña conditions persisted in the eastern and central tropical Pacific, keeping global surface temperatures about 0.1 degree C colder than average — a small effect compared with long - term global warming but a substantial one over a decade.

Already, the planet's average temperature has warmed by 0.7 degree C, which is «very likely» (greater than 90 percent certain) to be a result of the rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

At the height of the El Niño in November, colder - than - average temperatures in the Western Pacific and warmer - than - average temperatures in the Eastern Pacific were stronger and extended deeper in 1997 than in 2015.

The visualization shows how the 1997 event started from colder - than - average sea surface temperatures — but the 2015 event started with warmer - than - average temperatures not only in the Pacific but also in in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Their findings, based on output from four global climate models of varying ocean and atmospheric resolution, indicate that ocean temperature in the U.S. Northeast Shelf is projected to warm twice as fast as previously projected and almost three times faster than the global average.

«Northeast US temperatures are decades ahead of global average: Climate scientists say Northeast will warm sooner than most of US.»

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

As average U.S. temperatures warm between 3 °F and more than 9 °F by the end of the century, depending on how greenhouse gas emissions are curtailed or not in the coming years, the waves of extreme heat the country is likely to experience could bend and buckle rails into what experts call «sun kinks.»

«We find that civil wars were much more likely to happen in warmer - than - average years, with one degree Celsius warmer temperatures in a given year associated with a 50 percent higher likelihood of conflict in that year,» Burke says.

«The long - term baseline temperature is about three tens of a degree (C) warmer than it was when the big El Niño of 1997 - 1998 began, and that event set the one - month record with an average global temperature that was 0.66 C (almost 1.2 degrees F) warmer than normal in April 1998.»

January through August of 1998 are all in the 14 warmest months in the satellite record, and that El Niño started when global temperatures were somewhat chilled; the global average temperature in May 1997 was 0.14 C (about 0.25 degrees F) cooler than the long - term seasonal norm for May.

The global average temperature for May was 0.33 C (about 0.59 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than seasonal norms for the month.

Measurements released last week indicate that the comet's average surface temperature is -70 °C, around 20 to 30 °C warmer than predicted.

Johnson hypothesizes that warmer ocean temperatures in 2012 and 2013, which were 1.3 °C higher than the previous decade's average, allowed the crabs to move north.

Together, the other greenhouse gases account for roughly a third of the molecules trapping heat in the atmosphere — and more than a third of the overall warming of average temperatures globally.