Sentences with phrase «warmer than the south»

The test will be (I'm not making this up): «Is it warmer than the south - west of England?»

Net result of these differences means the North Pole is much warmer than the South.

Not exact matches

Planting the peppers on the south side of ridges that run east and west in the garden will increase the growth rate because the soil facing the sun will be warmer than level soil.

There were the obvious differences between the wines arising from clonal selection (most were made from the ubiquitous Gingin or Mendoza clone of chardonnay, which first arrived in WA in the early»70s, but a couple were made from more recently imported French clones), vintage variation and sub-regional influence (wines from the cooler south of Margaret River tended to be leaner and crisper than those from the warmer north).

Preliminary investigations on top swimmers in South Korea showed that athletes who warmed up using Jymmin machines were faster than those using conventional methods.

This year, the jet stream has been dipping farther south than normal, allowing it ready access to that warm Gulf of Mexico air.

The analogy is not perfect, though, because unlike Earth's Arctic regions, Saturn's south pole is slightly warmer than the rest of the planet.

At the time, Earth's climate was warmer than it is today, and as Antarctica moved southward, settling into its home over the South Pole, the continent teemed with plants and animals.

Staghorn corals live throughout the Great Barrier Reef, though waters in the northern portion can be more than 5 degrees Celsius warmer than in the south.

The results — along with a recent Dartmouth - led study that found air temperature also likely influenced the fluctuating size of South America's Quelccaya Ice Cap over the past millennium — support many scientists» suspicions that today's tropical glaciers are rapidly shrinking primarily because of a warming climate rather than declining snowfall or other factors.

Most people in South Florida, an estimated 54 percent, think global warming is already harming people in the United States, also 6 points higher than the national estimate.

Below that is saltwater that comes from the south, 6 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 4 degrees Celsius) warmer than the fresher water above.

They can also explain more than half of the warming recorded over the Antarctic Peninsula, because «anomalously strong westerlies should act to decrease the incidence of cold air outbreaks from the south and lead to increased warm advection from the Southern Ocean.»

Cores from the northern end of the transect, which experienced longer oxygen exposure times, were more decomposed than cores from the south, which formed under warmer temperatures.

For unknown reasons, parts of the south pole, at — 200 degrees Fahrenheit, are 125 degrees warmer than the rest of the moon.

Microclimate is the climate near the ground which can be colder or warmer than in the free atmosphere, depending on local topography (e.g. north vs. south side of a hill, higher vs. lower elevation) and vegetation (e.g. young sparse vs. old dense forest).

To explore the links between climatic warming and rainfall in drylands, scientists from the Universities of Cardiff and Bristol analysed more than 50 years of detailed rainfall data (measured every minute) from a semi-arid drainage basin in south east Arizona exhibiting an upward trend in temperatures during that period.

A stocky six - foot - long carnivore that hunted smaller reptiles on the warm plains of what is now South Africa, it had a metabolism that was higher than a reptile's but lower than a mammal's.

A later pass showed that the south pole was much warmer than expected, and was spouting geysers of salty water into space.

The Northwest, South, and Northeast were warmer than average, while central regions of the country were cooler than average, from the Rockies to Midwest.

Nearly all of Eurasia, Africa, and the remainder of South America were much warmer than average, or within the top 10 percent of their historical records for their regions, according to the Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above.

Most of Earth's land surfaces were warmer than average or much warmer than average, according to the Land & Ocean Temperature Percentiles map above, with record warmth notable across most of equatorial and northeastern South America and parts of southeastern Asia.

In the United States, for instance, the strong El Niño is expected to help make this winter's weather cooler and wetter than normal in the South, and warmer than normal in the North.

The Pacific Northwest should brace for a colder and wetter than average winter, while most of the South and Southeast will be warmer and drier than average through February 2011, according to the annual Winter Outlook released today by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center.

For your information, South Sikkim is relatively warmer than rest of the parts owing to the low altitude.

If you live in the south or a warmer climate I guess you could call it a coat, but if you endure temps lower than 32 degrees, you know this isn't truly a coat like some thicker felted sweaters could keep you warm enough to be called a coat.

Down south here in Little Rock it is more than warm enough to do so and I am ready to get to my cooler clothes.

If you ask me, it's never too early for white jeans, especially those of us in the south, since warm temps hit us even sooner than the rest of the country.

Winter (Jun - Aug): Although cooler weather may be experienced in winter, the temperatures are perfect for bush walking and Fraser Island and the Cooloola Coast are generally far warmer than the more inland regions of South Queensland, due to the proximity to the sea.

Head 40 kilometres (25 miles) south to Augusta, where an unusual microclimate means the local weather is almost always a few degrees warmer than the rest of the region.

Is there nothing better than shipping off on a red - eye flight in the depth of a cold winter night and arrive, half - a-day later far on the other side of the Equator (assuming you're coming from the north) in warm South America?

South Water Caye Imagine an island less than a half mile long, covered with white coral sand, tropical flowers, and coconut trees, surrounded by warm, crystal clear water enveloped in coral reefs that wrap more than half way around the island.

It is again astonishing to realize that the High Arctic is warmer than further to the South, a common winter feature now a years.

So, using a summer day in the UK as an example, the model is likely to show Scottish lowlands as being warmer than the same - latitude Scottish highlands but cooler than the further - south English lowlands, which in turn would be cooler than urban London.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

Even then many regions are set to pass the target much sooner as warming is not uniform throughout the world; in general the northern hemisphere warms quicker than the south.

Thus San Francisco, influenced by coastal up - welling, is hardly warmer than Dublin, which is influenced by the Gulf Stream, despite being over 1,600 km further south.

17 El Nino verses La Nina El Niño La Niña Trade winds weaken Warm ocean water replaces offshore cold water near South America Irregular intervals of three to seven years Wetter than average winters in NC La Niña Normal conditions between El Nino events When surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific are colder than average The southern US is usually warmer and dryer in climate

The «warming hole» is a region over the North Atlantic, just south of Greenland, where long - term temperature maps suggest air temperatures have been cooling slightly over the last century, rather than warming like most of the rest of the world.

The northern hemisphere has warmed faster than the southern because there's more land in the north than the south, and land has far less thermal inertia than ocean.

Recent statistics from 380 sites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, and the USA show that cold weather kills 20 times more people than warm weather.

El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fiSouth America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fisouth; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fisouth of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

During that same period, average annual rainfall in New South Wales declined by 3.6 inches (92 millimeters).3 Scientists think the decline in autumn rainfall in southeast Australia since the late 1950s may be partly due to increases in heat - trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere.3, 14 Major bushfires over southeast Australia are linked to the positive phase of an ocean cycle called the «Indian Ocean Dipole» — when sea surface temperatures are warmer than average in the western Indian Ocean, likely in response to global warming.15, 16

Every 2 to 12 years, the South Pacific trade winds move less warm water to the western Pacific than they usually do.

Collins reaches the following conclusion — about lagging winter warming: «Considering the months June — August, regions in both North and South Africa saw significantly warmer temperatures in the most recent period 1995 — 2010 than in the period 1979 — 94.

Now taking the region off Perth as 30 to 35 South and 114 to 116 East, just the coastal strip and checking out the HadSST1 SST data at KNMI Climate Explorer; we find that the summer (Dec - Jan - Feb) of 1999 - 2000 was warmer (1.33 deg) than 2010 - 2011 (1.27 deg).

Only in the far north and over the far south - east of the continent was it warmer than average.

So warmer - than - normal surface waters in the South Atlantic created by the changes in atmospheric circulation during an El Niño should be transported northward into the North Atlantic (and vice versa for a La Niña).

If you had seen the ads you would realise they had a lot more to do with establishing the green credentials of the South Australian Labor Party prior to a state election than global warming.

It was also notably warmer than average over north - eastern Australia and southern South America.